News4JAX is taking a closer look at little-known therapies that use electricity as a non-invasive way to treat certain medical conditions.
, military veterans with mild traumatic brain injuries who underwent the therapy saw their symptoms reduced by an average of 53%.“Everything that had been traumatic in my life kind of felt like it had still just happened,” she told us.
“We are stimulating directly underactive parts of the brain. Anti-depressants do this indirectly, right, by changing chemical balances,” explained Lewis. The therapy targets a patient’s brain with an alternating electromagnetic field to move electrons inside the skull that are constantly communicating. The same way an electromagnetic field can be used to spark a lightbulb, it can spark the underactive areas of a depressed brain.
As for side effects, Lewis says patients might experience scalp irritation or a mild headache. He says there is a small risk of seizure — about 1 in 85,000. Lewis says it can take decades for newer and more expensive treatments to become accepted, but he says this treatment has the potential to help a lot of people in pain.
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