[anetode]

Is anyone here familiar with (repetitive) transcranial magnetic stimulation currently under research as a form of therapy?
 
The devices typically include two coils and look like this:

 
Typical data, from wiki & cited to http://www.biomag.hus.fi/tms/terminology.html

1. magnetic field: often about 2 teslas on the coil surface and 0.5 T in the cortex
2. current rise time: zero to peak, often around 70-100 microseconds
3. wave form: monophasic or biphasic
4. repetition rate for rTMS: below 1 Hz (slow TMS), above 1 Hz (rapid-rate TMS)

 
Although the electrical properties differ greatly from headphones, there are some similarities. The question is whether the magnetic field from headphones could have a similar effect on changing the electrical properties of nearby cell pathways.

 

[Anaxilus]

How do they sound?  

 

[Head Injury]

Quote:

How do they sound?  

Judging by that magnetic field, about twice as good as the T1.

 

[DanielCox]

I doubt it - the voice coils on a headphone would be much further away from the brain than this piece of equipment and the magnetic field it generates is a lot weaker and orientated inwards.