Interview with Joan Camprodon, MD, MPH, PhD: “There is a lot of taboo around electroconvulsive therapy, but it reduces the intensity of depression” (El Pais)

November 13, 2023

Ruta Nonacs, MD PhD

Neuromodulation techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, have the potential to treat a wide array of psychiatric disorders.

In an interview published in El Pais (in English), Joan Camprodon, MD, MPH, PhD, Director of Neuropsychiatry at Mass General Hospital, discusses the potential and promise of neuromodulation to not only treat a wide spectrum of psychiatric disorders but also as an opportunity to learn more about these disorders and to create more targeted interventions.

Learn More About Dr. Camprodon’s Research

In this presentation given at the Seventeenth Annual Seminar of the MGH Leadership Council for Psychiatry on February 9, 2023, Dr. Camprodon discusses the use of neuromodulation for the treatment and study of psychiatric disorders.

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