People suffering from depression are finding help when electromagnetic waves enter their brains. Mental health experts estimate that depression affects more than 120 million people worldwide. It severely affects the person’s quality of life and, in extreme cases, can lead to suicide. Anti-depressant medicines have been shown as an effective treatment for many patients. But the drugs are unable to help some people with the disorder. For such persons, doctors may suggest deep transcranial magnetic stimulation, or DTMS for short. In this treatment, patients wear a helmet a large hard hat on their head. The helmet is connected to a machine. An electric coil in the helmet sends out regular pulses of electromagnetic energy. These beating sounds produce changes in the brain area responsible for the disorder.
Title: Using Electromagnetic Waves to Fight Depression
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1395/fighting_depression.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Using Electromagnetic Waves to Fight Depression' data-article-id='1889'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9604'>People suffering from depression are finding help when electromagnetic waves enter their brains.</span> <span data-start-time='9604' data-end-time='20708'>Mental health experts estimate that depression affects more than 120 million people worldwide.</span> <span data-start-time='20708' data-end-time='30708'>It severely affects the person’s quality of life and, in extreme cases, can lead to suicide.</span> <span data-start-time='30708' data-end-time='38646'>Anti-depressant medicines have been shown as an effective treatment for many patients.</span> <span data-start-time='38646' data-end-time='44146'>But the drugs are unable to help some people with the disorder.</span> <span data-start-time='44146' data-end-time='56083'>For such persons, doctors may suggest deep transcranial magnetic stimulation, or DTMS for short.</span> <span data-start-time='56083' data-end-time='63208'>In this treatment, patients wear a helmet a large hard hat on their head.</span> <span data-start-time='63208' data-end-time='67271'>The helmet is connected to a machine.</span> <span data-start-time='67271' data-end-time='76542'>An electric coil in the helmet sends out regular pulses of electromagnetic energy.</span> <span data-start-time='76542' data-end-time='85625'>These beating sounds produce changes in the brain area responsible for the disorder.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1395/fighting_depression.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=7243 data-hint-location='44146' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1395/what_does_transcranial_mean.m4a'>What does transcranial mean?</div><div class='choices' 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1395/in_this_treatment_patients_wear_a__blank__.m4a'>In this treatment, patients wear a <span class='blank'>helmet</span>. </div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='helmet'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1395/scarf.m4a'><span>scarf</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1395/helmet.m4a'><span>helmet</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1395/hat.m4a'><span>hat</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1395/blanket.m4a'><span>blanket</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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