As far as I’ve been told, left-TMS is for depression, right-TMS is for anxiety. Why that’s the case, I have no idea.)
As I was reading this I intuited there would be something to predict here so I successfully stopped reading before the “left-TMS is for depression, right-TMS is for anxiety” part and scrolled it out of view so I could do the prediction myself based on what I understand to be the roles of the right and left hemispheres.
As I understand it, the left hemisphere of the brain is sort of focused “forwards”, on whatever tool you’re using or prey you’re hunting, and in particular on words you’re speaking/hearing and plans you’re making to pursue some goal. In contrast the right hemisphere of the brain is focused “outwards” on the environment as a whole and sort of on guard for any threats or interesting irregularities that ought to pull your attention away.
Therefore I predicted that left-TMS would be for kind of general depression stuff about all your plans seeming like bad ideas or whatever, and right-TMS would be for worrying about a bunch of stuff that’s in your environment and being distracted, which sounds more like either an ADHD kind of thing or anxiety!
So you’ll have to take my word for it, but I got it right.
As I was reading this I intuited there would be something to predict here so I successfully stopped reading before the “left-TMS is for depression, right-TMS is for anxiety” part and scrolled it out of view so I could do the prediction myself based on what I understand to be the roles of the right and left hemispheres.
As I understand it, the left hemisphere of the brain is sort of focused “forwards”, on whatever tool you’re using or prey you’re hunting, and in particular on words you’re speaking/hearing and plans you’re making to pursue some goal. In contrast the right hemisphere of the brain is focused “outwards” on the environment as a whole and sort of on guard for any threats or interesting irregularities that ought to pull your attention away.
Therefore I predicted that left-TMS would be for kind of general depression stuff about all your plans seeming like bad ideas or whatever, and right-TMS would be for worrying about a bunch of stuff that’s in your environment and being distracted, which sounds more like either an ADHD kind of thing or anxiety!
So you’ll have to take my word for it, but I got it right.