CTMSS PULSES Scottsdale

This in-depth training course offers a certificate of completion and features lectures and over 3 hours of hands-on training delivered by Clinical TMS Society renowned clinicians, engineers, and researchers and some special guests.  Attendees will receive current, historical, and practical knowledge for treating patients with TMS based on the best evidence.

The program includes:

• An introduction to the history of and basic scientific principles of TMS by Professor Anthony Barker, who designed the first-ever TMS machine in 1985;
• A review of the clinical studies that serve as the foundation for treatment of TMS for depression, as well as clinically applicable research and current important studies;
• Four lectures on the practical administration of TMS for patients, including practice setup to patient dosing, scheduling, and management;
• A review of protocols for TMS: high frequency, theta-burst, low frequency, bilateral, alternative brain targets, rescue treatment, maintenance treatment;
• A revised lecture on TMS risk and their prevention and management, including seizure protocol review;
• Hands-on training on coil location placement & motor threshold determination with multiple TMS devices;
• A review of promising indications beyond depression, including, obsessive compulsive disorder, smoking cessation, migraine, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and pain; and
• An extended Q & A Panel with all PULSES faculty and special guests.

After completion of the course, the clinician will have obtained a historical, current, and practical knowledge of the scientific basis for treating psychiatric patients with TMS.

Attendees will also have the ability to participate in an interactive Q&A Panel with Pulses faculty. Those who complete the course are awarded a certificate of completion.