(Liu Meiyan Yin Wei, a reporter from the Health Client of the Peoples Daily) "I feel that I finally returned to the previous look, and I havent felt this for a long time!" After 5 treatment, I suffered from depression.Ms. Chen gradually recovered the motivation of life.
On November 13th, Zhang Chencheng, the Ruijin Hospital of Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical College, told the Peoples Daily Health Client reporter that this is a new type of neural regulation technology -time interferenceTemporal interference (TI).This treatment method does not need to take medicine or surgery, but to accurately stimulate the "almond nucleus" and adjust its excessive active state, thereby improving the patients emotional regulation ability and reducing depression.
The subject receives time interference stimulating therapy."Liu Ye Dao" public account diagram
Zhang Chencheng explained, "In the human brain, the almond core is responsible for dealing with the emotional response.When dealing with negative emotional information, this excessive active will cause patients to be more sensitive to negative information, it is difficult to recover from negative emotions, which will cause continuous depression symptoms.Treatment of depression by regulating almond nucleus.Zhang Chencheng introduced that during the treatment, the doctor would locate according to the image report to find the amyloniated position that needs to be stimulated, and then marked the location of the four electrodes on the scalp.Low -frequency adjustment waves are used as "targets" to accurately affect neuronal activity.
"At the beginning of the treatment, you may feel a slight sexual tingling sensation or numbness, and there is nothing obvious." Ms. Chen said.
The main treatment of current depression is psychotherapy and drug therapy.However, it is difficult for high -level psychological counselors to find, and drug treatment is slower, and it may have poor results or obvious side effects.Therefore, new treatment methods are needed to improve safety and tolerance, and to promote continuous treatment of patients.Fang Yiru, director of the Department of Psychological Psychology of Ruijin Hospital, observed that TI therapy, as an emerging technique of non -invasive, deep brain, precise, and multi -target, is a highly acceptable intervention method for patients.
"TIs clinical trial for depression is planned to recruit 92 patients, and most of them have been progressing, showing a rapid and significant antidepressant effect." Zhang Chencheng told the Peoples Daily Health Client reporter reporterThe project has also been supported by Shanghais major science and technology special brain machine interface project, hoping to bring hope to more depression patients.
