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MASHPEE Three times a week, Sharon DiGennaro drives from her South Yarmouth home to Dr. Jonathan Schwartz’s office at 11 Cape Drive.
She sits down in a lounge chair, and technician Jody D’Errico straps a band around DiGennaro’s head and places a metal coil above her left ear. DiGennaro hears a rapid tapping sound, like a woodpecker drilling into a tree.
The sound starts and stops for about 17 minutes, and then they switch the device to her other side. The procedure feels like a head massage, DiGennaro said.
DiGennaro is at Schwartz’s Mashpee office to treat her depression and anxiety using transcranial magnetic stimulation, a noninvasive treatment for depression cleared by the Food and Drug Administration.
Police in New Hampshire arrested a Sunday school teacher after she and other parents showed up at a school board meeting without masks to urge the district to lift its mask mandate.
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