06/04/2026
Less than 1% of the people who'd qualify for TMS ever get it.
Scott West, MD, brought TMS to Tennessee in 2010. Fifteen years later, he says the problem is awareness.
A 40-year-old patient of his grew up two miles from his clinic, in a family touched by depression and su***de, and had never heard of TMS until the week she walked in.
William Sauvé, MD sat down with him for the latest episode of Psychiatry Tomorrow:
•He stopped calling TMS a depression treatment – and started calling it a tool that treats the brain
•"Take a pill, come back in six weeks" isn't good enough for a condition this serious
•Going off-label responsibly: fibromyalgia, a nine-year-old with Tourette's, and how to read the research
•Where TMS is headed: QEEG-guided protocols, new circuits, EEG captured under a live coil
"I think depression is an urgent illness to deal with." – Scott West, MD
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Dr. Scott West brought TMS to Tennessee in 2010. Why do so few patients get TMS for treatment-resistant depression, and how can clinicians close the gap?