Finding Relief From Lifelong Depression: Accelerated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Owen Scott Muir, MD Is a dual board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist, and co-author of Adolescent Suicide and Self-Injury: Mentalizing Theory and Treatment. He has held academic appointments at Hofstra-Northwell, NYU and Baylor, and is currently leading the management of suicidality curriculum at the Mayo Clinic general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry training programs. His main research interest is in neuromodulation for treatment resistant mood disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder. Today he joins the fellas to talk about the state of the mental health crisis in America, the connections between physical and mental health and his personal take on how they relate, and his work in administering Accelerated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, where remissions from lifelong suffering can happen in the span of a week instead of months.