What Works, What’s New, and What’s Next: Using Brain Stimulation to Treat Mental Illness

This article highlights the benefits for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for treatment in normalizing abnormal neural circuitry as a valuable tool for understanding and treating neuropsychiatric disorders. It further outlines which conditions have FDA clearance to be treated with TMS. Emerging research is also addressed showing new indications and more personalized and precise treatments. Copyright 2026.

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• Define transcranial magnetic stimulation.
• Explain how TMS affect brain circuits to treat psychological symptoms.
• Identify which conditions have FDA clearance to be treated with TMS.
• Describe research to extend TMS to new suggestions and make the treatment more personalized and precise.

Kirsten Weir