Brainsway announces presentation of two Deep TMS posters

BrainsWay announced the acceptance and upcoming presentation of two Deep TMS posters at the World Congress of Psychiatry in Vienna, Austria, taking place September 28 – October 1, 2023. The first poster presents a preliminary analysis of real-world results from 247 Deep TMS patients ranging in age from 60 through 91 who had been administered Deep TMS at 16 centers. This elderly patient population has long been considered to be more difficult to treat with TMS, principally because of the brain atrophy that occurs with age which displaces relevant brain structures further from the TMS coil which is placed on the scalp surface during therapy. Yet, results from this post-marketing analysis demonstrated that patients receiving at least 30 treatments of Deep TMS demonstrated 77% and 55% response and remission rates, respectively, using the PHQ-9 rating scale. These results are comparable to those seen in younger patients. The second poster presents preliminary data from 111 MDD patients treated at 4 clinical sites. The patients underwent an “accelerated” Deep TMS treatment regimen whereby multiple treatments were administered each day using either high frequency or theta burst protocols, thus resulting in a shorter overall treatment period. Outcomes were comparable to those seen using longer, traditional protocols.