Mood improvement following daily left prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with depression: A placebo-controlled crossover trial

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 154, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1752-1756

  George, Mark S ^a   Wassermann, Eric M ^c   Kimbrell, Tim A ^c   Little, John T ^c   Williams, Wendol E ^c   Danielson, Aimee L ^c   Greenberg, Benjamin D ^c   Hallett, Mark ^c   Post, Robert M ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0030697958     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.154.12.1752     Document Type: Article

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