Pragmatic accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation for posttraumatic stress disorder

Accelerated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a novel adaptation of TMS designed for faster symptomatic relief compared to standard TMS (1). Traditional TMS involves one session per day over 6 weeks, while accelerated TMS condenses multiple sessions into a single day. One of the first uses of accelerated TMS described in 2010 (2) provided a high dose of TMS over three days with improvements occurring rapidly; a more recent example is the SAINT protocol for MDD, which combines high dose TMS with proprietary functional targeting to yield robust outcomes (3).