Focal brain stimulation with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): Implications for the neural circuitry of depression

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-13

  Lisanby, Sarah H ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOOD DISORDER; MOTOR CORTEX; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

BRAIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037240721     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291702007043     Document Type: Editorial

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