(Radio Iowa) - University of Iowa Health Care is among only three academic medical centers in the nation, and the first in the Midwest, to offer what promises to be groundbreaking treatment for people with major depression.
Dr. Nick Trapp, a U-I psychiatry professor, says they're using a time-tested type of therapy called T-M-S along with several innovative new techniques. Trapp says the SAINT technology can pinpoint the best location to target in each patient’s brain for non-invasive electric fields, and the therapy can be condensed to five days of treatment instead of six weeks.
Trapp says SAINT is being used in a limited number of patients who have major depression and who haven't responded to other therapies and medications. He says the early data shows up to 80-percent of patients experience remission of their symptoms.