• TMS was approved by the FDA in 2008.

• TMS has been shown to be effective in multiple medical studies.

• TMS is more effective than medications once three antidepressants have not worked.

• The effect is long lasting. Often people are still doing well years later. If depression does come back, more treatments restore the benefit 85% of the time.

• TMS is an outpatient office procedure.

• Patients remain awake and alert and can resume normal activities immediately.

• Side effects may include mild headache and scalp discomfort.