Can TMS patients also take an antidepressant(s)?

  • NeuroStar TMS Therapy was studied as a monotherapy without additional antidepressants in the controlled clinical trial so the efficacy with additional antidepressants (i.e., as adjunctive therapy) is not known.
  • NeuroStar TMS Therapy was safety administered in conjunction with medication antidepressants and this replicated what has been shown in the many literature-based single center trials of TMS.
  • In clinical trials, patients were administered antidepressant medications during the taper phase at the end of two of the acute studies.
  • In the maintenance of effect study, patients who were being treated with antidepressant monotherapy and also had periodic reintroductions of TMS Therapy.