TMS for Teens—a non-invasive outpatient treatment that stimulates the brain to treat depression is FDA-approved for ages 15-plus. The FDA recently approved Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) treatments for adolescent depression. This gives parents and their teens a low-risk, non-medication depression treatment option to consider. While the FDA has newly approved it for teen depression, TMS…
How Exercise Improves Mental Health Regular exercise is one of the most effective ways to manage your mental health naturally. In mild cases of depression or anxiety, regular exercise may be enough to manage your symptoms without the need for antidepressant medications. How does exercise help the depressed brain? When people become depressed their…
While it’s nothing new to hear that the COVID-19 pandemic took a disproportionate toll on those who work in healthcare, teaching, and first response careers, we are now starting to see the lingering effects that the pandemic is still having on their mental health. Today, we are seeing a depression crisis among workers in these…
Psychedelics are considered a relatively new and promising form of therapy for treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other trauma related disorders. While this is new to Western medicine, it has been used by indigenous people around the globe for thousands of years. As modern psychedelics go, Minneapolis has been on the forefront, and our own…
The New York Times recently printed an opinion piece titled “I took ketamine for depression. Things got pretty weird.” In this piece, writer Vanessa Barbara describes her experience in Juiz de Fora, Brazil using intravenous ketamine treatment for her depression. The essay made me reflect on how ketamine therapy is administered nationwide. I have 38…