Lack of significant changes on magnetic resonance scans before and after 2 weeks of daily left prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression

Journal of ECT

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 380-390

  Nahas, Ziad ^a,d   DeBrux, Cart ^a   Chandler, Veena ^a   Lorberbaum, Jeffrey P ^a   Speer, Andrew M ^b   Molloy, Monica A ^a   Liberatos, Christopher ^a   Risch, S Craig ^a   George, Mark S ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Magnetic resonance imaging; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKULL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SKULL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034574756     PISSN: 10950680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00124509-200012000-00008     Document Type: Article

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