Magnetic seizure therapy may help prevent suicide in depression patients: JAMA
Canada: Magnetic seizure therapy (MST) could be a potential treatment for suicidality in patients with treatment-resistant depression, suggests a recent study in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Suicidality is a major public health problem. It is a term that encompasses the spectrum of suicidal behaviors and thoughts. At least 800 000 people worldwide are known to die by suicide each year. About 90% of the people who die by suicide have a primary psychiatric illness.
Despite this, there is an unmet requirement for effective suicidality treatment in mental disorders. Electroconvulsive therapy is known to be an effective treatment for suicidality and MST has been investigated as its alternative for the management of the treatment-resistant major depressive disorder, with promising findings. Yet. there is a dearth of data on the association of MST with suicidality directly. It is important to explore the potential of MST as a viable alternative to electroconvulsive therapy for suicidality. Keeping this in mind, Cory R. Weissman, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues determined the association of MST with suicidality in patients with treatment-resistant major depressive disorder.
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