Therapeutic efficacy of right prefrontal slow repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in major depression: A double-blind controlled study

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 315-320

  Klein, Ehud ^a,c   Kreinin, Isabella ^a   Chistyakov, Andrei ^a   Koren, Danny ^a,b   Mecz, Lilly ^a   Marmur, Sarah ^a   Ben Shachar, Dorit ^a   Feinsod, Moshe ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032912610     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.56.4.315     Document Type: Article

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