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The TMS Wiki does not give medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations

The contents of The TMS Wiki are for informational purposes only. No content on The TMS Wiki should be considered medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations. The TMS Wiki does not recommend or endorse any specific doctor, therapist, service provider, product, procedure, opinion, or other information that may be mentioned on the website.

The TMS Wiki contains information on many medical-related topics; however, no warranty whatsoever is made that any of the information is accurate. There is absolutely no assurance that any statement contained or cited on the site touching on medical matters is true, correct, precise, or up-to-date. The overwhelming majority of such web pages are written, in part or in whole, by nonprofessionals. Even if a statement made about medicine is accurate, it may not apply to you or your symptoms.

The medical information provided on The TMS Wiki site is, at best, of a general nature and cannot act as a substitute for the advice of a medical professional such as a qualified doctor/physician, nurse, pharmacist/chemist, etc. Simply put, the TMS Wiki is not a doctor.

None of the individual administrators, moderators, editors, developers, sponsors, members, contributors, experts, users, or visitors of the TMS Wiki, nor anyone else connected to the TMS Wiki, can take any responsibility for the results or consequences of any attempt to use or adopt any of the information appearing on the website.

Nothing on the TMS Wiki, or included as part of any project of the larger nonprofit, the PPD/TMS Peer Network, should be construed as an attempt to offer or render a medical opinion.

Use the TMS Wiki at your own risk

Please be aware that any information you may find on the TMS Wiki may be inaccurate, misleading, dangerous. addictive. unethical, or illegal.

Some information on the TMS Wiki may create an unreasonable risk for readers who choose to apply or use the information in their own activities or to promote the information for use by third parties.

None of the administrators, moderators, editors, sponsors, members, contributors, experts, users, visitors, system operators, developers, or anyone else connected with The TMS Wiki in any way whatsoever can be responsible for your use of the information contained in or linked from the site. Reliance on any information provided by the TMS Wiki, its administrators, moderators, editors, developers, sponsors, members, contributors, experts, users, or visitors is at your own risk.

Please take all steps necessary to ascertain that information you receive from the TMS Wiki is correct and has been verified. Double-check all information with independent sources.

If any part of the site contains suggestions regarding dangerous, illegal, or unethical activities, remember that anyone can post this information on this site. The authors may not be qualified to provide you with complete information or to inform you about adequate safety precautions and other measures to prevent injury, or other damage to your person, property, or reputation. If you need specific medical advice, please seek a professional licensed or knowledgeable in that area.

The TMS Wiki is not uniformly peer reviewed. While readers may correct errors or remove erroneous suggestions, they have no legal duty to do so. All information found on The TMS Wiki site is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever.

No consequential damages can be sought against the TMS Wiki, as it is a voluntary association of individuals formed to create freely licensed online educational, cultural, and informational resources. This information is being given to you gratuitously and there is no agreement or understanding between you and The TMS Wiki regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License GFDL).

Do not rely upon any information found on the TMS Wiki without independent verification.

The TMS Wiki makes no guarantee of validity of the information presented

The TMS Wiki is an online open-content collaborative resource - that is, a voluntary association of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource of knowledge about TMS. The structure of the project allows anyone with an Internet connection to alter its content. Please be advised that nothing found here has necessarily been reviewed by people with the expertise required to provide you with complete, accurate, or reliable information.

That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in The TMS Wiki; most of the time, you will. However, the TMS Wiki cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. The content of any given web page may recently have been changed, vandalized, or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.

No Formal Peer Review

The TMS Wiki is not uniformly peer reviewed. While readers may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so, and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even content that has been vetted by informal peer review processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.

None of the administrators, moderators, editors, developers, sponsors, members, contributors, experts, users, visitors, or anyone else connected with the TMS Wiki in any way whatsoever can be responsible for the appearance of any inaccurate or libelous information or for your use of the information contained in or linked from these web pages.

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Please make sure that you understand that the content provided here is being provided freely, and that no kind of agreement or contract is created between you and the individual TMS Wiki administrators, moderators, editors, developers, sponsors, members, contributors, experts, users, visitors, or anyone else who is in any way connected with this project or sister projects subject to your claims against them directly. You are being granted a limited license to copy anything from this site; it does not create or imply any contractual or extra-contractual liability on the part of The TMS Wiki or any of its administrators, moderators, editors, developers, sponsors, members, contributors, experts, users, or visitors.

There is no agreement or understanding between you and The TMS Wiki regarding your use or modification of this information beyond the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL); neither is anyone at The TMS Wiki responsible should someone change, edit, modify, or remove any information that you may post on The TMS Wiki or any of its associated projects.

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Publication of information found on the TMS Wiki may be in violation of the laws of the country or jurisdiction from where you are viewing this information. Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. The TMS Wiki does not encourage the violation of any laws, and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce, or republish the information contained herein.

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If you need specific advice (for example, medical, legal, financial, or risk management), please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area.

The TMS Wiki contains content that may be objectionable

In its informational function, the TMS Wiki contains information on a vast array of topics. A relatively small fraction of these topics are frequently censored by educational, governmental, corporate, parental, and other filtering schemes.

  • Some pages on the TMS Wiki use words or language that are considered profane, vulgar, or offensive by some readers.
  • Some pages may contain audio, visual, or written representations of people or events which may be protected by some cultures.
  • The TMS Wiki contains many different images, some of which are considered objectionable or offensive by some readers. For example, some web pages contain graphic depictions of violence, human anatomy, or sexual acts.
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  • The TMS Wiki may contain triggers for people with post-traumatic stress disorder. The TMS Wiki may contain images and videos which can trigger epileptic seizures and other medical conditions.
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