New treatment for depression

The government has approved a new noninvasive treatment for depression -- a device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull. How cool is that?

The new therapy is called transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS, and though revolutionary, it isn't necessarily for everybody. The FDA approved the NeuroStar therapy specifically for patients who had no relief from their first antidepressant, offering them a different option than trying pill after pill.

"We're opening up a whole new area of medicine," says Dr. Mark George of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, who helped pioneer use of TMS in depression. "There's a whole field now that's moving forward of noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain."

Now how great that they are attempting to come up with something that doesn't involve more pills. Good for them.

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