Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Ontario
What the facility does

Clinical research program looking at novel brain-stimulation treatments in treatment-resistant disorders

Areas of expertise

The Temerty Centre is home to one of the world’s most talented concentrations of clinicians and researchers working to develop and perfect non-invasive brain-stimulation treatments for people with depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other disorders of the brain and mind. Here, next-generation techniques are producing physiological changes in the brains of people with serious and persistent mental illness, effectively relieving symptoms with significantly fewer side effects.

Research services

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), TMS-Electroencephalography (TMS-EEG), Electromyography (EMG), Co-Registration, Magnetic Seizure Therapy (MST), Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS), Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (TDCS), Cognitive Testing

Sectors of application
  • Education
  • Healthcare and social services
  • Life sciences, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment
Specialized labEquipmentFunction
Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention (TCTBI) MagPro X100Magnetic seizure therapy machine
 Medtronic MagProTranscranial magnetic stimulation device
 Twin Coils, B70 Cool CoilsFor above-mentioned devices
 Visor XT 3-D Neuronavigation SystemBrain navigation
 SynAmps EEG amplifierAmplifier system
 BiStim2TMS machine
 

Intronix model 2024F Electrophysiological Amplifier

System with Signal Conditioning

Amplifier
 Digitimer DS7APeripheral nerve stimulator
 SynAmps2 Quik-Cap Sintered Ag/AgCl, 64 ChEEG caps
 Stim Audio Sys Model 1140Brain sound amplifier
 Brainsight Navigator for TMSNeuronavigation 
  • Brainsway Inc.
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research
TitleURL
CTV News: Canadian researchers study alternative therapy for hard-to-treat depression (November 2012)

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canadian-researchers-study-alternative-therapy-for-hard-to-treat-depre…

(page has CTV videos)

Psychiatric News: rTMS appears to counter schizophrenia memory deficits (March 2013)http://alert.psychiatricnews.org/2013/03/rtms-appears-to-counter-schizophrenia.html
CAMH news release: Landmark $7.4 million gift pioneers breakthrough brain-stimulation treatments for mental illnesshttp://www.camh.ca/en/hospital/about_camh/newsroom/news_releases_media_advisories_and_backgrounders/current_year/Pages/Landmark-$7-4-million-gift-pioneers-breakthrough-brain-stimulation-treatments-for-mental-illness.aspx
CAMH video: Breakthrough brain-stimulation treatments for mental illnesshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=assIbdT_1vk
CAMH video: Brain stimulation: discovering new treatment for severe depressionhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGl0_F31BXM