REVIEW
Fields of application: psychiatry, neurology
The principle of therapeutic magnetic stimulation is as follows. A magnetic stimulator uses short-term magnetic pulses. The resulting high-intensity electromagnetic field freely penetrates clothing, skull bones and soft tissues and affects deep nerve centers, peripheral nerves, brain and spinal cord, which are inaccessible to other methods of stimulation.
This type of influence is most common for the treatment of depression (including severe and drug-resistant depression), tinnitus. In addition, there are very good, encouraging results in the recovery of stroke patients, as well as in the treatment of patients suffering from many other neurological and psychiatric diseases.
- Psychiatry: Treatment of depression, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorders, post-traumatic stress, manic syndromes, and other psychiatric illnesses.
- Neurology: treatment of lesions of the central and peripheral nervous system: neuropathic pain, consequences of stroke, migraine, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, tinnitus, etc.
Basic Solution for Rhythmic Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
The magnetic stimulator with cooling unit and cooled inductor comes with a handy holder that allows you to quickly and conveniently lock the inductor in any position with a single screw. All components of the magnetic stimulator are placed on a mobile trolley. To control the stimulation process, a computer may also be included in the delivery set. In this configuration, the system allows for long sessions of biphasic rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) with an operating frequency range of up to 30 Hz and maximum intensity at 5 Hz.
To record motor evoked potentials, use any EMG recorder from a wide range of Neurosoft neurophysiological equipment.
The number of stimuli given during one session is 10,000
In order to avoid overheating of the inductors during a long treatment session, the Neuro-MS/D magnetic stimulator package includes a cooling unit and cooled inductors. The cooling unit is a container with coolant and a pump that pumps the liquid through the inductor and the refrigerator. The block allows you to increase the running time of the stimulator without overheating to 10,000 stimuli in a row. This means that the stimulator can work without overheating indefinitely.
Neuro-MS.NET software for magnetic stimulator control
The delivery set of the therapeutic option includes the computer program "Neuro-MS.NET", which makes it possible to program almost any stimulation algorithms. It allows you to maintain a patient database, determine the thresholds of motor responses, and manage courses and stimulation sessions. The user can carry out stimulation according to pre-created programs, as well as create his own or edit existing stimulation programs.