3,000 Pulses: Surviving Depression with TMS Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

3,000 Pulses Surviving Depression with TMS sheds light on a safe, non-invasive, FDA-cleared, and proven-effective therapy Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). The story describes how Martha Rhodes, a successful advertising executive, wife, and mother who in her late fifties, succumbed to depression and overdosed on Xanax and alcohol in an unsuccessful suicide attempt despite a seemingly ideal life. After a grueling stay in a psychiatric ward, Rhodes pursued Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as an alternative to ineffective drugs and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). 3,000 Pulses describes Rhodes challenges with untreated and drug-resistant depression, and how the road back to health with TMS returned her to an even better place than where she started. She now manages her depression with TMS therapy and without the side effects attributable to antidepressant medications.

Martha Rhodes spent over 25 years working in New York City advertising agencies as a senior-level executive in Creative Services and Integrated Operations. She is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston and has pursued post-graduate work at Harvard University Extension as well as The School of Visual Arts in NY. She was inducted into the Print Media Hall of Fame in 2008. She currently devotes her time to advising patients and health care professionals as a TMS Patient Advocate. Martha lives with her husband John in Connecticut.
Randy Ian Pardell, MD DFAPA, a board-certified psychiatrist and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and the New York University School of Medicine with honors. Dr. Pardell completed a Masters in Psychopharmacology with Distinction from the Neuroscience Education Institute and a Fellowship in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pardell lectures nationally on the latest pharmacologic and brain stimulation advances in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. He is recognized as a Top Doctor by Castle Connolly and US News and World Report. As the Director of the TMS Center of the Hudson Valley and Riverview Psychiatric Medicine, PC, Dr. Pardell addresses the physiological and psychological aspects of each patient to create the optimal treatment plan, which includes medication management, genetic testing, psychotherapy, nutritional supplementation, and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).