Nexstim Oyj: Nexstim Plc provides encouraging results of the initial pilot study in severe depression at Kuopio University Hospital Nexstim Plc provides encouraging results of the initial pilot study in severe depression at Kuopio University Hospital Nexstim Plc (NXTMH:HEX, NXTMS:STO) ("Nexstim" or "Company") provides an overview of results of the pilot study on the use of accelerated iTBS protocol in treatment of severe depression with Nexstim NBT System at Kuopio University Hospital. Nexstim announces that all 10 patients treated with the accelerated iTBS protocol have completed their 5-day treatment and 7 have completed at least 5 weeks of their planned 12-week follow-up. The 10 patients were treated with shortened treatment sessions to ensure patient safety with the accelerated protocol and no study discontinuations or serious adverse events issues have occurred. All ten patients showed improvement of symptoms on the clinician administered Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-17) outcome measure at the end of treatment (mean decrease in score from baseline 37%, p>50% improvement on the measure.