Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico
Ciudad Juárez’s Only Clinic Offering High Powered TMS
NeuroSpa Clinic is proud to be the first clinic in Ciudad Juárez to offer high-powered EEG-guided Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). TMS is a non-invasive, safe, and effective treatment approved by both COFEPRIS and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). We combine cutting-edge EEG brain mapping with targeted stimulation to help treat a wide range of mental health and cognitive conditions. By combining brain mapping with targeted magnetic stimulation and concurrent therapies, we help restore healthy brain function and accelerate recovery.
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)?
TMS is a neuroscience-based treatment that uses focused magnetic pulses to stimulate or inhibit specific brain areas involved in behavior and brain function. By integrating EEG brain mapping, we tailor your treatment to your unique neural activity—offering a truly personalized approach to healing.
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How TMS Works
Rewiring Brain Networks for Mental Wellness
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a neuroscience-based therapy that uses focused magnetic pulses to activate or inhibit targeted brain areas, restoring healthier brain function. These pulses are delivered through a coil placed on the scalp, influencing regions involved in mood, attention, memory, motivation, and emotional regulation.
TMS doesn’t just stimulate the surface—it interacts with deeper brain circuits and promotes long-term changes in how your brain communicates, reconnecting networks that may have become dysregulated in mental health conditions.
The Neuroscience Behind TMS
TMS is a neuroscience-based treatment that uses focused magnetic pulses to stimulate or inhibit specific brain areas involved in behavior and brain function. By integrating EEG brain mapping, we tailor your treatment to your unique neural activity—offering a truly personalized approach to healing.
TMS works through a combination of powerful mechanisms that support lasting brain change:
- Neural Activation & Inhibition: TMS can either stimulate underactive brain regions or calm hyperactive circuits, depending on the condition. This helps restore healthy communication between brain regions involved in emotional and cognitive regulation.
- Neurotransmitter Modulation: TMS increases levels of important neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine—all of which play essential roles in regulating mood, energy, motivation, and focus.
- Neuroplasticity: Rewiring the Brain: One of the most exciting effects of TMS is its ability to promote neuroplasticity—the brain’s natural capacity to change, adapt, and form new connections. This means that TMS helps the brain “learn” new, healthier patterns of activity over time.
- BDNF: Brain Growth and Recovery: TMS has also been shown to increase levels of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF)—a key protein that supports the growth, survival, and strengthening of neurons. BDNF acts like “fertilizer” for the brain, enhancing its ability to recover from trauma, stress, and dysfunction.
Conditions Treated with EEG-Guided TMS
Our high-frequency, EEG-guided TMS protocols are tailored to target specific brain circuits associated with mood, anxiety, cognitive functioning, social interactions, and more. Click on each to learn more.
Depression
Treatment-Resistant Depression
Bipolar Depression
Burn Out / Chronic Stress
Anxiety
Panic Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Cognitive Decline & Dementia
Post-Covid Cognitive Fog
Example:
TMS for Depression
Depression is increasingly understood not just as a chemical imbalance, but as a disorder of functional brain disconnection. People with depression often show disrupted communication between key brain networks, especially those involved in emotion regulation, self-reflection, and executive function.
How Depression Affects Brain Networks
- Emotion Regulation: Overactivity in the amygdala and insula intensifies sadness, fear, and anxiety.
- Cognitive Control: Underactivity in the dorsolateral and medial prefrontal cortex impairs attention, decision-making, and concentration.
- Motivation and Reward: Disruption in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and basal ganglia leads to apathy and anhedonia.
- Neurovegetative Functions: Hypoactivity in regions connected to the hypothalamus affects sleep, appetite, and energy regulation.
TMS addresses these disruptions by restoring functional communication between brain regions—helping the brain reconnect and regain balance. TMS works by directly interacting with and reshaping the brain’s communication systems. It helps the brain shift out of dysfunctional patterns and into a healthier state of regulation and balance.
Specifically, TMS:
- Increases functional connectivity: across frontal-limbic circuits responsible for emotion, motivation, and executive function
- Promotes neural synchrony: improving the timing and coordination between brain regions
- Re-engages long-range networks: involved in emotional processing and self-awareness
- Modulates oscillatory brain rhythms: supporting better attention, calm, and cognitive flexibility
- Boosts Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF): which supports brain growth, structural recovery, and long-term neuroplasticity
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Integrated TMS Therapy: Activating and Strengthening Brain Networks
At NeuroSpa Clinic, we go beyond standard protocols. As the first clinic in Ciudad Juárez to offer high-frequency EEG-guided TMS, we integrate both concurrent and subsequent therapies to optimize how the brain responds to stimulation. This approach strengthens not only individual brain regions but the networks between them—promoting deeper, longer-lasting recovery.
Concurrent Therapies: Activate & Train Neural Networks During TMS
Rather than passively receiving stimulation, patients are actively engaged in therapeutic tasks during TMS sessions. This dual stimulation approach boosts neuroplasticity and reinforces the specific brain circuits being targeted.
- Psychotherapy: Talk therapy during stimulation enhances emotional processing and rewires thought patterns.
- Cognitive Training: Strengthens executive function through memory games and focus challenges.
- Mindfulness Practices: Uses breathwork and guided imagery to regulate emotion and improve awareness.
- Art Therapy: Engages visual and emotional networks to support self-expression and brain integration.
- EMDR: Combines trauma-focused eye movement therapy with TMS to calm overactive emotional circuits.
- Music-Based Neural Entrainment: Uses rhythm and melody to align brainwaves and promote emotional regulation.
- Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS): Non-invasive stimulation of the vagus nerve supports autonomic balance, enhances mood, and reduces anxiety during TMS.
- Red Light Therapy: Photobiomodulation with near-infrared light may support brain energy metabolism, reduce neuroinflammation, and enhance neuroplasticity during and after TMS.
- Social/Empathy Training: Exercises that promote understanding of others' emotions and perspectives—supporting social cognition, empathy, and emotional integration during stimulation.
Subsequent Therapies: Reinforce and Extend Brain Recovery
In addition to concurrent therapies performed during TMS, we also integrate subsequent therapies—scheduled separately but during the same treatment period—to consolidate neural changes, promote long-term recovery, and strengthen self-regulation.
These therapies are designed to amplify the effects of TMS by continuing to engage and train the brain in new, healthier patterns:
- Neurofeedback: Patients receive real-time feedback on their brain activity using EEG. Over time, they learn to self-regulate patterns of attention, stress response, and emotional control—reinforcing the neuroplastic changes initiated during TMS.
- fNIRS Brain Training: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) measures blood oxygenation in the brain. This data allows us to guide mental training activities that improve cognitive flexibility, focus, and emotional balance by targeting specific brain regions.
- EEG-Guided Meditation: By using real-time EEG feedback, patients learn to enter and sustain meditative states more easily. This enhances emotional regulation, stress resilience, and focus by strengthening neural patterns associated with calm and clarity.
- Virtual Reality Therapy: Immersive VR environments are used to simulate calming, cognitive, or socially interactive scenarios. VR also supports gradual exposure therapy for fears, phobias, and anxiety—helping the brain reprocess stressful situations in a safe, controlled setting.
Together, this layered protocol—TMS + task-based therapy + post-session neurotraining—delivers superior change in our patients by treating the brain as an interconnected network rather than isolated areas.
It’s not just stimulation—it’s transformation, supported by the latest in neuroscience and psychology.
What to Expect During TMS Therapy
At NeuroSpa Clinic, every aspect of your TMS experience is designed with care. From the moment you arrive, you’ll receive a brain based therapy that is not only comfortable and non-invasive, but also scientifically personalized using real-time brain data. Our goal is to help you or your loved one feel supported, informed, and empowered at every step.
1. Personalized Evaluation
Your journey begins with a comprehensive intake designed to understand your brain and your overall mental health. This includes:
• A clinical interview to evaluate your current psychological status
• A qEEG brain map to assess your brain’s electrical activity
• A review of symptoms, history, and goals to determine if TMS is the right fit for you or your loved one.
If needed, you may be referred to our consulting neurologist for additional evaluation or diagnostic clarification before beginning treatment.
We believe in using every tool available to ensure the therapy is safe, effective, and tailored specifically to your needs.
2. TMS Mapping and Initial Session
Once you’re cleared to begin treatment, your first appointment will include motor threshold mapping — a key step where we calibrate the TMS device to your brain’s individual sensitivity. This ensures that stimulation is both safe and effective.
Using our EEG-guided protocols, we identify the exact location and strength of magnetic pulses needed to target the brain areas most associated with your symptoms.
You’ll then receive your first TMS session, where you’ll relax comfortably in a reclined chair while a magnetic coil delivers rhythmic pulses to specific brain regions. The procedure is:
• Non-invasive and medication-free
• Pain-free (you may feel a light tapping sensation)
• Quick — lasting about 15 to 40 minutes
After your initial session, we’ll review your response and begin planning your full treatment course.
3. Subsequent Sessions
Following your initial mapping and first treatment, you’ll begin a series of ongoing TMS sessions, typically scheduled 3 to 5 times per week, depending on your condition, goals, and individual needs.
A full course of treatment generally includes 20 to 40 sessions. (The U.S. FDA recommends 36 sessions for the treatment of major depression in adults.)
Each session builds on the last — reinforcing healthier brain activity through repetitive stimulation of specific neural networks. Many patients begin to notice improvements in mood, sleep, focus, and anxiety within the first 2 to 3 weeks. Some may start seeing results as soon as the first week.
Based on your initial evaluation and personalized goals, your treatment may also incorporate concurrent therapies designed to enhance outcomes, such as:
• Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS)
• Meditation or mindfulness exercises
• Cognitive training tasks
• Other evidence-based tools that support neuroplasticity
We’ll also be tracking your symptoms weekly using short, secure online forms sent to your phone or email. This allows us to monitor your response in real time and adapt your treatment plan if needed. Likewise, we may conduct additional EEG brain mapping to understand how your brain is responding to TMS treatments.
During each session:
• You’ll sit comfortably in a quiet, focused environment
• Sessions typically last 20–40 minutes. For most people, you can be in and out within 30 minutes.
• There’s no sedation or recovery time — you can return to daily activities immediately. You can drive to and from your sessions without worry.
4. Maintenance & Continuing Care
While many patients experience significant improvement after completing their initial course of TMS, mental health is an ongoing journey — and we’re here to support it every step of the way.
Depending on your condition and how your brain responds to treatment, we may recommend a maintenance TMS plan to help sustain your progress over time. Maintenance therapy is tailored to your needs and may include:
• Booster sessions (e.g., 1–4 per month) to reinforce neural patterns
• Seasonal or situational follow-ups during times of stress or relapse risk
• Continued use of supportive therapies such as neurofeedback, mindfulness training, VNS, or cognitive training
We’ll work with you to develop a personalized maintenance strategy that keeps your brain in balance and helps you stay on track — mentally, emotionally, and functionally.
TMS is more than a treatment — it’s part of a long-term plan for better brain health.
Is TMS Right for You or a Loved One?
Not sure if Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is the right fit?
Use our quick screening form to help us understand your needs and see if you’re a candidate for this safe, non-invasive, and science-backed therapy.