New Site Directed Towards Education and News Relating to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

September 29, 2007

CHAPEL HILL, NC – The Elata Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding scientific research into new treatments for depression, has launched its website: www.elata.org. The website is a key aspect of Elata’s mission: to help the four million Americans with refractory (untreatable) depression by promoting education and research into the promising technology of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a method of helping cure depression.

The Elata Foundation website has been available in “beta” format since May and will now be expanded and improved, with a TMS blog covering the latest news regarding rTMS and TMS in general, a quiz so readers can see how much they know about TMS, and expanded resources for those seeking TMS treatment, including a map displaying all locations in the United States currently offering Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation treatment in clinical studies.

With its website, the Elata Foundation hopes to educate those who are seeking information on depression, specifically TMS as an alternative to current treatments. For more information on the Elata Foundation, call 919-883-4044, email info@elata.org, or visit the website: www.elata.org.

About the Elata Foundation:

The Elata Foundation is a nonprofit 501©3 organization created to promote education and fund scientific research in the growing field of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) as a treatment for refractory depression (depression which does not respond to any other treatment).

The Elata Foundation is dedicated to bringing TMS out of the research lab and into the clinic, so that it can be used to safely and effectively treat the patients who need it most. It is estimated that up to 30 percent of depression cases are resistant to other treatments - an estimated 4 million people a year, in America alone. For these people, TMS has been hailed as a life-saving breakthrough. Elata’s mission is to give hope to those debilitated by depression who have found no treatment that works besides TMS.