Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Tailoring the rTMS Protocol to the Patient

 

You’re invited to join the Clinical TMS Society for this installment of our Grand Rounds Webinar Series:  Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Tailoring the rTMS Protocol to the Patient by speaker Jonathan Downar, MD, PhD, FRCPC.

Learning objectives: 

  • To review recent advances in understanding the neural networks underlying dimensions of illness in depression
  • To review clinical presentations assoiciated with these dimensions of illness
  • To review recent advances in selecting the target of stimulation so as to address these specific dimensions of illness

Date: On-Demand

Format: Webinar using Zoom Video Communications

Cost: Members: $25 | Non-members $50


Speaker: Jonathan Downar, MD, PhD, FRCPC 

Dr Jonathan Downar is the director of the MRI-Guided rTMS clinic at the Toronto Western Hospital. The clinic uses non-invasive brain stimulation to treat medication-resistant depression and other psychiatric illnesses. With >600 referrals annually, it is among the highest volume brain stimulation clinics in North America.
Dr Downar also holds the position of Scientist at the Krembil Research Institute. As a translational clinician-scientist, his work focuses on developing new indications, better treatment techniques, and more cost-effective protocols for non-invasive brain stimulation in psychiatry. He has held peer-reviewed funding from CIHR, the NIH, Brain Canada, the Klarman Family Foundation, the Krembil Foundation, and the Buchan Family Foundation. His work has been published in leading journals including Trends in Cognitive Science, Biological Psychiatry, Neuropsychopharmacology, Brain Stimulation, JAMA Psychiatry, and Nature Neuroscience..