Posted by Psychquackery on August 25, 2003, at 12:39:38
In reply to Re: rTMS sucess, posted by linkadge on August 25, 2003, at 10:27:06
> 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.
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.
Igor
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thread:253579
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