ACT Annual Meeting: ECT Into the New Millennium

May 30-31, 1998

Toronto, Canada

Hotel to be announced (usually is held at a location central to the APA meeting)

Sarah "Holly" Lisanby, MD, writes:

"There are several TMS-related talks scheduled in conjunction with the 8th Annual Association for Convulsive Therapy (ACT) meeting. The ACT meeting is held on the Sunday between the Society of Biological Psychiatry and American Psychiatric Association meetings. Registration information may be obtained by contacting:

ACT Annual Meeting Continuing Medical Education Allegheny General Hospital 320 East North Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212-4772 USA

Phone: 412 359 4952 Fax: 412 359 8218 or send me an e-mail."

Selections from the program relevant to TMS:

May 31, 10:30am - 11:45am

Symposium #2

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-An update and comparison with ECT

Chair - Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD

• Overview of rTMS-Technology, Mechanism of Action, Potential Applications - Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD
• rTMS vs/ ECT in Severe Major Depression- New Data - Leon Grunhaus, MD
• ECT and rTMS - Similarities and Differences - Harold Sackeim, PhD
• Discussion

May 31, 3pm

ACT Honored Speaker Presentation

• Anticonvulsant effects of ECT and rTMS: Implications for treatment of depression - Robert Post, MD