rTMS Center in California

M. Bret Schneider, MD

Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

828 Portola Road

Portola Valley, CA 94028

Telephone (650) 906-8371

Fax (650) 851-3544

Email: MBSchneiderMD@gmail.com

Web: http://mbschneidermd.googlepages.com

TMS Treatment Program at UPenn

John P.O'Reardon and colleagues describe their TMS Treatment program on this site.

You can contact them here.

TMS Study Center in Stanford

M. Bret Schneider, MD
Consulting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosurgery
Stanford University School of Medicine
Private Practice Psychiatry
701 Welch Road, Suite 211
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Telephone (650) 906-8371
Fax (650) 851-3544
Email: MBSchneiderMD{@}gmail.com
Web: http://mbschneidermd.googlepages.com/home

St. Jude Starting Trial On Brain Stimulation For Depression

St. Jude, the company which acquired Advanced Neuromodulation Systems in 2005, is going ahed with a pivotal trial of Deep Brain Stimulation for Major Depression to seek PMA from the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA has granted what is known as an investigational device exemption that clears St. Jude to begin enrollment for the trial which is named BROADEN (BROdman Area 25 DEp brain Neurostimulation). The stimulation site is cg25; up to now patient numbers and study sites are kept confidential.

You can read more on this study here:

- CNNMoney.com

- PR-inside.com (an Austrian Press Service)

- The study site set up by St. Jude

Study Center - New York, New York

(Bipolar Disorder, Major Depression, Schizophrenia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and others)
Division of Brain Stimulation and Neuromodulation - Columbia University - New York State Psychiatric Institute - 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 21 - New York, NY 10032 - Sarah H. Lisanby, MD
Contact: TMS Study Coordinator - Phone: (212) 543-5767 - Fax: (212) 543-6056 - E-mail: BBClinic@columbia.edu -
Websites:
http://www.columbia.edu/~shl24/
http://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/cs/bss.html

Study centre - Melbourne, Australia

Program
Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre
The Alfred and Monash University
First Floor Old Baker Building, The Alfred
Commercial Rd, Melbourne, Vic, Australia, 3004
www.med.monash.edu.au/spppm/research/aprc/project2.html#brain_st

Program Director
Associate Professor Paul B Fitzgerald
Tel: + 61 3 9276 6552
Fax: + 61 3 9276 6588
p.fitzgerald@alfred.org.au

Contact for enquiries about study participation:
Tel: + 61 3 9276 6595

Recruitment is currently underway for TMS studies in the following conditions:

1. Depression


2. Negative symptoms in schizophrenia


3. High functioning autism and Asberger’s disorders (age 14-25)

Study Centre - Sydney, Australia

Institution
University of New South Wales & Black Dog Institute
Black Dog Institute Building, Prince of Wales Hospital
Randwick. Sydney. NSW 2031. Australia
www.blackdoginstitute.org.au

Program Director
Associate Professor Colleen Loo
Tel: + 61 2 9350 2039
Fax: + 61 2 9350 3734
colleen.loo@unsw.edu.au

Contact for enquiries about study participation:
tms@unsw.edu.au
tel: + 61 2 9382 3720

Recruiting for current studies (TMS, ECT, DCS):
1. Depression
2. Auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia
3. Adolescent depression - 13 to 18 yo

Study Center- Charleston, South Carolina USA

Brain Stimulation Laboratory
Institute of Psychiatry
Medical University of South Carolina
67 President Street Rm 502 N
Charleston, SC 29425
Contact: (843) 876-5142 Fax:(843) 792-5702
Website: http://www.musc.edu/fnrd/tms.htm

Toronto, Ontario TMS Center

(fee for service)
80 Finch Ave. West, Suite 100 Toronto, ON M2N 2H4
Toll-Free: 1.866.603.RTMS (7867)
Local: 416.482.6210
Local 2: 416.482.RTMS (7867) Fax: 416.224.8684
Email: info@mindcarecentres.com