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General Psychiatric Care | TMS and Ketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Battle your treatment-resistant depression
Our specialty is treatment-resistant depression (also called drug-resistant depression). If you have sought help for depression but have not made progress with standard treatments — like antidepressants — we have proven alternatives.
In fact, we are the only psychiatrists in Bergen County who provide both Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Ketamine nasal spray therapies.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
TMS is an FDA-approved outpatient therapy. It is non-invasive (no sedation, incision, or IV) and has none of the side effects of antidepressants.
The TMS treatments are administered here in our office. You recline comfortably in a specially designed chair while a magnetic coil delivers short pulses that stimulate your cerebral cortex. By affecting neurotransmission in specific brain regions, these pulses can have a positive effect on your mood.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation has helped thousands of people with treatment-resistant depression.
Ketamine Nasal Spray Therapy
Ketamine is an FDA-approved prescription nasal spray. It is used in combination with an oral antidepressant. The brand of Ketamine we use is called SPRAVATO™ — in fact, we are a certified SPRAVATO™ treatment center.
You can administer Ketamine to yourself right here in our office, under our supervision. The Ketamine therapy regimen is typically twice a week for a month, then once a week for another month, then once every one or two weeks.
In clinical trials, adults with Major Depression who had not responded to conventional antidepressants experienced a significant reduction in their symptoms with SPRAVATO™ after just four weeks.
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Our articles on psychiatric topics have also been published in various academic journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).