The high-ranking visit should give a project at the University of the Bundeswehr in Neubiberg even more impetus: Recently, Bavaria’s Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) visited the university at the invitation of Kerstin Schreyer (CSU), the constituency deputy from the southern district, and found out more informed about the status of the interdisciplinary research project Mext, as stated in a press release by the MPs. Scientists are researching transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a technology for therapy with few side effects in the treatment of depression. Although TMS devices have been used in neuroscientific research and therapy for 35 years, they can usually only be used in hospital due to their size and weight.
In the project in question, scientists from electrical engineering, psychology and sports and materials management, among others, are jointly researching a new approach that will make more complex and flexible pulse shapes possible and thus produce more compact and portable devices – so that patients can use them at home . The professors involved, Thomas Weyh and Wolfgang Mack, explained the project to the minister. Schreyer had become aware of the project the previous year at an in-house exhibition at the university. “Among other things, Mext was presented – it was immediately clear to me that I had to show this to our health minister,” she says.
He, in turn, emphasizes that the pandemic has once again clearly shown how important it is to deal openly with mental illnesses. “It is important to me that those affected continue to receive the help they need quickly and in a targeted manner. I am therefore pleased that there are interdisciplinary research projects such as Mext, which are researching a therapy for the treatment of depression with few side effects,” says Holetschek. He is very excited about the results and wishes the project every success.