Failed by Antidepressants? Try This Instead - Daniel Månsson, Flow Neuroscience

Medication-free depression treatment - that’s the promise of the Flow Neuroscience headset. With increasing numbers of people being prescribed antidepressants - dealing with all the side effects they come with - Flow’s headset might seem too good to be true. But is it? That’s what I wanted to find out.

Daniel Månsson is co-founder of Flow Neuroscience and in this episode he tells us exactly how his company’s over-the-counter, wearable headset works to treat depression.

In this episode Daniel tells us:
- About the science behind transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and its effectiveness
- What is happening in the brain during depression
- How the Flow headset stacks up against antidepressants
- How long the headset can be used and what the side effects are

Highlights:
0:00 Intro
1:18 What is depression?
2:54 What is the Flow headset?
5:55 tDCS versus placebo
8:25 The role of therapy
12:38 tDCS versus antidepressants
18:54 Why isn’t tDCS the gold standard?
20:51 Is it too good to be true?
23:33 How quickly does it work?
26:25 Non-responders
28:19 What types of depression does Flow treat?
30:51 Flow origin story
33:23 Treating anxiety with tDCS?
36:55 A vision of the future

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