Stanford Psychiatrist Reports TMS Depression Treatment Achieves 60-90% Remission in Five Days

What was said

"What we've found is that folks will, within 1 to 5 days, in more cases than not, and depending upon if you're looking at this open label or in trials, somewhere between 60 and 90% of the time, they will go into full-on remission in the sense they're totally normal from a mood standpoint at the end of this."

Dr. Nolan Williams described Stanford's accelerated TMS protocol, which compresses 7.5 months of traditional treatment into 5 days using spaced learning theory. Patients receive 90 minutes of magnetic brain stimulation spread across 10 hours daily for 5 consecutive days, targeting the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Some patients have maintained remission for up to 4 years, though durability remains variable.