AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Millions of Americans suffer from depression, and around 30% do not respond to any treatment. However, a Panhandle doctor may hold a cure.
Sherry Kasko has suffered from depression for about 20 years. she tried numerous prescription drugs, yet nothing worked.
Finally her doctors Michael Jenkins and James Rush received the Panhandles first, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, or TMS therapy machine.
It emits magnetic pulses into the motor cortex of the brain, where depression takes place.
The patient only needs to attend thirty 40-minute sessions for the treatment. There is no anesthesia, in fact, there is no pain at all.
Sherry described the sessions as relaxing and seems to be completely cured. "I'm not depressed anymore I have no anxiety. I'm sleeping so much better and its amazing how much it's improved my life. I got my life back, my husband and I, we got our lives back."
Even Sherrys doctor was surprised at the machines results.
Dr. Jenkins said, "We do ratings scales to see just how severe the illness is with people and hers was quite severe when we started. Now the ratings scale is at zero. I wouldn't have even thought that myself."
