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Mindful Health Solutions offers compassionate and comprehensive care to patients who deal with advanced depression. Mindful Health Solutions provides an FDA-approved TMS treatment used to benefit patients with Major Depressive Disorder. TMS treatment is for patients who have tried medications without success or may want therapy without side effects. Call (844) 867-8444 for a free […]

Mindful Health Solutions announces the opening of an all-new facility in Fairfield, CA, its twelfth clinic overall. The new clinic joins existing Mindful Health Solutions facilities in Sacramento, two in San Francisco, Oakland, Roseville, Burlingame, El Dorado Hills, Walnut Creek, and Costa Mesa. About our Doctors Dr. Richard Bermudes, Chief Medical Officer of Mindful Health […]

Mindful Health Solutions is a leading provider of an innovative therapy called transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS therapy. Mindful Health Solutions’ primary focus is on helping patients lessen the symptoms of treatment-resistant depression, also known as TRD. Apart from transcranial magnetic stimulation, the team also offers medication management and telepsychiatry so that patients can reach their providers from […]

Transcranial magnetic stimulation, also known as TMS therapy, is a revolutionary treatment for clinical depression, among other conditions. This non-invasive procedure involves using magnetic fields to stimulate the specific part of the brain known to be inactive or underactive in patients with clinical depression.  Although experts aren’t sure exactly what causes clinical depression, the current […]

Clinical depression is a mental disorder characterized by an array of symptoms that, when severe, can affect nearly every aspect of a person’s life. Most people have experienced extreme sadness, but that feeling usually comes from or is affected by the circumstances around them and is usually short-lived. For example, the death of a loved […]

Hundreds of studies have been conducted over the last 25 years on depression and recovery. Depression, not to be confused with sadness, is a condition that is lasting and almost paralyzing to those afflicted. The National Institute of Mental Health website notes that sadness is something everyone experiences as a normal emotion that passes with […]

By Richard A. Bermudes, MD, Mindful Health Solutions Chief Medical Officer When I first started utilizing TMS in 2009, it seemed as if every patient responded. However, a good number of patients do not benefit at all from the treatment and have less than a 25% reduction in their baseline depression score (Fitzgerald et al. […]

Many people confuse Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). This is understandable but at the end of the day the treatments are very different from one another. Both are forms of brain stimulation used to treat depression, but this is where the similarities end. While ECT uses an electrical current to stimulate the […]