Posted by Caleb462 on August 25, 2003, at 13:30:18
In reply to Re: rTMS sucess, posted by Psychquackery on August 25, 2003, at 12:39:38
> > Here is what I am doing. (what I know)
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> > Each session is about 10 minautes long.
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> > I am using a coil of diameter 7.5 cm
> > placed over the left prefrontal cortex just behind the forehead (diagonally up/back from the temple area)
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> > I am not shure of the exact waveform of the scientific studies. I believe some use a square wave - which would be more of a pulse type stimulation. I chose the sinusoidal wave because it is smoother.
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> > I don't know too much about the telsa coil feild strength as my physics teacher basically did the work for me.
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> > He just needed to know things like, what telsa coil feild strength I wanted (I said 1.0)
> > How much wire was in my coil, what were the specifications of the amplifier I was using.
> > He told me the voltage I would need to output.
> > I used a carrier wave and an multimeter to find the right voltage on the amplifier.
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> > I will try to find out the specifics, but after I got it set up I've just left the amp volume where its at and left it.
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> > I am the one who's got to do the research. If I want to go back to my teacher to ask questions I'm going to get a little more informed about the theory.
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> Be very careful as you could accidentally give yourself a seizure using homemade rTMS. That would be unfortunate and would most likely land you in the hospital.
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> Better yet, why bother with "homemade" rTMS at all and go straight to ECT. Are you a coward? Homemade rTMS is hitting rock bottom...pretty pathetic.
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> IgorHmm... what exactly is your problem bud? Why are you so obsessed with ECT? Guess what... not everyone wants or needs ECT. Coward? Pathetic?
My aren't you a compassionate one. I say way to go and congrats, linkadge.
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