Mood effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of left prefrontal cortex in healthy volunteers

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 251-256

  Mosimann, Urs P ^a   Rihs, Tonia A ^a   Engeler, Judith ^a   Fisch, Hans Ulrich ^a   Schlaepfer, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affect; Prefrontal cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual analog scales

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FATIGUE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SADNESS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AFFECT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTROMAGNETICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SKULL;

EID: 0034679896     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(00)00146-3     Document Type: Article

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