Transcranial magnetic stimulation of left temporoparietal cortex in three patients reporting hallucinated 'voices'

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 130-132

  Hoffman, Ralph E ^a   Boutros, Nashaat N ^a   Berman, Robert M ^a   Roessler, Elizabeth ^a   Belger, Aysenil ^a   Krystal, John H ^a   Charney, Dennis S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory hallucinations; Cerebral cortex; Psychosis; Schizophrenia; Speech processing; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0033055453     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(98)00358-8     Document Type: Article

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