Revolutionary new technology to treat depression
Over 11 years of experience.
Leading psychiatrist and technician in the region.
Supplementary therapy for TMS patients, targeting anxiety, OCD, PTSD, depression, and more.
Long-standing, with insurance committee experience.
Presented to mental health professionals on TMS.
Dr. Cook is the medical director and speaker on psychopharmacology.
We provide extra sessions for late responders at no charge, aiming for full remission.
First TMS clinic in East TN to use FDA-cleared MagVenture protocol for pain and neuropathy.
Avoiding common pain from improper methods.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a procedure that uses magnetic fields from our MRI-strength device to stimulate nerve cells in the brain to improve symptoms of major depression. It’s called a “noninvasive” procedure because it’s done without using surgery or cutting the skin. Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2008, TMS usually is used only when other depression treatments haven’t been effective.
Medication Management through Sutherland Psychiatry, PLLC with Regan Christenson, APRN, Board Certifiend Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. She is taking new patients for med management with or without psychotherapy and is supervised by Dr. Cook.
Lane M. Cook, M.D.
Welcome to TMS of Knoxville. We provide patients in Knoxville, Tennessee and surrounding areas of East Tennessee the latest in depression treatments. We are pleased to be able to offer MagVenture TMS Therapy to our patients. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy is one of the most technologically advanced depression treatments available. This non-invasive, outpatient therapy is FDA cleared since 2008 and has helped thousands of depression patients who have not received adequate results from antidepressants. We are proud to be the first clinic to bring TMS to the Knoxville area. With over 327 patients treated with a current response rate of 76% and remission rate of 57%, we can help those whose medications have not. Please contact our office to schedule a consultation with our medical director Lane M. Cook, M.D. to see if TMS therapy can help you, or simply go to our Survey form to answer a few questions about your depression and we will contact you. Thanks.
If you have tried many medications, years of psychotherapy and have reached the end of your rope to overcoming your depression then I would highly recommend attending TMS of Knoxville for transcranial magnetic stimulation. Dr. Cook and his staff are very knowledgable, keep up with cutting edge information on TMS, are very personable and friendly and will work on getting you back on track. If you can take a small chunk of time to invest in your mental health 5 days a week and be patient through the recovery process then definitely visit TMS of Knoxville.
I was diagnosed with clinical depression at the age of 21. I am now 71. Through the past. 50 years I have moved 29 times over Europe and the US. And I hold two Bachelors degrees. Having said all that, you can imagine trying to find good mental health care. I have been prescribed every drug invented and treatments thought of.. During 2013, I found TMS of Knoxville, after doing extensive research on TMS. I was throughly impressed by my introduction to Lane and Terry ‘s approach to my treatment. Finally, after the third week of treatment, the dark fog over my lens started to lift and for the first time in decades I realized I could feel joy. That was amazing to me. And if that joy starts to diim, I can call and get a reboot. This is priceless to me. These two professionals go beyond their duty to make me comfortable and secure. I would never put my precious mental health in the hands of anyone use.
My last treatment is today. I feel like I’m graduating. I am so grateful for this treatment. TMS has given me my life back. I appreciate your kindness and compassion and your professionalism. I always knew I was in good hands. TMS is a breakthrough treatment, an answer to a prayer for me. My brain doesn’t feel foggy anymore, so I can think more clearly. I find that I can make decisions more easily and I don’t feel completely overwhelmed all the time. My outlook is now one of hope and determination, rather than one of hopelessness and despair. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I think I’ve always had depression. One of my earliest memories has been as a little girl on the playground watching other children playing and having a good time and being alone on the sidelines and wondering why I couldn’t have that kind of fun. Depression first began to interfere with my life in my early 20’s and I began to get treatment for it. For thirty years I was in and out of hospitals with severe depression. I can’t even count the number of medications and hospitalizations. I was willing to do anything. My mother’s new boyfriend happened to be a psychiatrist who attended a seminar about TMS. He mentioned it to me and my mom and we went to a consultation. I was hopeful but very frightened. I was scared to be hopeful because so many times doctors have said “this is what is going to work for you” and it would maybe work for a couple of months and then it wouldn’t work so I was always being disappointed. I was concerned about the cost but it was my mom who said to me, “don’t you want to try something that could possibly change your life, no matter what the cost”?? And I really wanted to try. I wasn’t quite sure when I started feeling better but I think it was a couple of weeks into treatment. My mom started noticing I was more alert and aware and my face wasn’t so tight. TMS has helped me to feel the best I have ever felt. I have come off an enormous amount of medications from which I suffered a great deal of side effects. Fatigue during the day, all day was the worst side effect for me to deal with. This made it very difficult to keep a job. Now I am alert and awake and I sleep like a normal person. I am not falling asleep in the afternoon and unable to get out of bed in the morning. That has been the best change and that has been because I have been taken off so much medication. If I had given into my fears I could probably right now be in the hospital, feeling helpless and hopeless and not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. That is so far from where I am right now.
Here is a comparison of what happens in patients with major depression who have tried multiple antidepressants. The likelihood of medications helping reach remission drops with each new medication. With TMS, we reach remission (well) 55% of the time. And 76% have at least a 50% reduction of depressive symptoms known as response.
After 4 antidepressant failures, another medication has approximately a 10% chance of remission. Here are our outcomes with response meaning a 50% drop in depressive symptoms and remission considered a substantial improvement in symptoms which are similar now to a person without depression.
Total patients treated
Response rate
Remission
The Patient Outcome Data is determined by using Patient Health Questionnaire and the Beck Depression Inventory-2 of patients who received TMS of Knoxville treatment. A state of remission is characterized by minimal or no symptoms of depression and is recognized as a score of 5 or lower on the PHQ9.
4428 Sutherland Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37919
(865) 588-6425 ext. 6
info@tmsofknoxville.com
TMS is the breakthrough technology for non-drug treatment of depression and promises to be the future of psychiatric treatment—providing hope for patients for whom medication treatment and psychotherapy have failed to achieve satisfactory results. At TMS of Knoxville, we have successfully treated many patients with treatment resistant depression
