{"id":1347,"date":"2013-07-02T07:57:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T11:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2013-07-02T07:57:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T11:57:14","slug":"caveat-emptor-tms-as-snake-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/caveat-emptor-tms-as-snake-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Caveat Emptor: TMS as Snake Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of my next visit to the <a title=\"Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmslab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">TMS Lab at Beth Israel<\/a> in Boston*, I came upon this blog post:<\/p>\n<h3><a title=\"TMS for Autism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticblog.org\/2013\/07\/01\/transcranial-magnetic-stimulation-for-autism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION FOR AUTISM<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added a comment to that post, so won&#8217;t repeat myself here, but I did want to point out the very valid caveats they list. They talk about a clinic that is offering TMS as a &#8220;treatment&#8221; for autism, and why this smells of snake oil.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if I will live long enough (I hope so!) to see an end to the search for a &#8220;cure&#8221; for autism and the beginning of a genuine effort to figure out how to help autistic people fit into a non-autistic world, and to be accepted for who we are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* formally, the\u00a0Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Beth Israel\u00a0Deaconess Medical Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of my next visit to the TMS Lab at Beth Israel in Boston*, I came upon this blog post: TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION FOR AUTISM &nbsp; I&#8217;ve added a comment to that post, so won&#8217;t repeat myself here, but I did want to point out the very valid caveats they list. They talk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/caveat-emptor-tms-as-snake-oil\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}