September 10, 2026
“The autonomic-symptom score cleared statistical correction. The PTSD-symptom score, the study's only psychiatric measure, did not.”
“A personalized fMRI target got patients to a significant improvement on session 10; the standard target got them to the same statistical finish line on session 20 – and by the end, the two lines met.”
“At the same threshold of treatment resistance, 27.1% of patients assigned to rTMS reached remission at 8 weeks, versus 4.9% assigned to the next step in the medication algorithm.”
“Twenty-eight of the twenty-nine TMS devices previously cleared in China held a lower-risk classification than the psychiatric use they were sold for.”
“"Miraculous results" – marketing language from a clinic website selling MeRT for autism, quoted in the letter as an example of a claim the published evidence does not support, not a conclusion by the letter's own authors.”
“To achieve accreditation, a team must meet 100% of type 1 standards, 80% of type 2 standards, and 60% of type 3 standards.”