Right prefrontal rTMS treatment for refractory auditory command hallucinations - A neuroSPECT assisted case study

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 113-117

  Schreiber, Shaul ^a   Dannon, Pinhas N ^b   Goshen, Elinor ^b   Amiaz, Revital ^b   Zwas, Tzila S ^b   Grunhaus, Leon ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Auditory command hallucinations; Cerebral cortex; Rapid transcranial magnetic stimulation; Schizophrenia; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; EVALUATION; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037202601     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4927(02)00065-3     Document Type: Article

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