Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation as a neuropsychiatric tool: Present status and future potential

Journal of ECT

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-59

  Post, Robert M ^a   Kimbrell, Tim A ^a   McCann, Una D ^a   Dunn, Robert T ^a   Osuch, Elizabeth A ^a   Speer, Andrew M ^a   Weiss, Susan R B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective disorders; Brain imaging; Depression; Electroconvulsive therapy; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; Mechanisms; Positron emission tomography; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; SEIZURE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0032982594     PISSN: 10950680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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