Brain Reboot, Michael Henry

Psychiatrist and Director of the Bipolar Clinic and Research Program at Massachusetts General looks at the three new alternate--deemed miraculous--treatments for depression: ECT, Ketamine, and TMS. Depression affects eleven million people in the United States alone and 300 million people worldwide. It ruins lives, careers, families, and love of life. We often think of pharmaceutical treatments at the best way to treat depression, but the truth is that they don''t work for everyone or they lose their efficacy for a third to half of all people with clinical depression. But help is on the way in the form of three alternative treatments coming to the forefront: electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), ketamine, and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Curing people of depression is Dr. Michael Henry''s life''s work. As one of the foremost doctors in ECT, Dr. Henry sets out to show readers that these three treatments, which are fraught with stereotypes and mystery, are actually miraculous--and proven to be so. Often,