Acute left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation in depressed patients is associated with immediately increased activity in prefrontal cortical as well as subcortical regions

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 882-890

  Li, Xingbao ^a,b   Nahas, Ziad ^a,b   Kozel, F Andrew ^a,b,c   Anderson, Berry ^a   Bohning, Daryl E ^a   George, Mark S ^a,b,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Brain networks; Depression; fMRI; Limbic system; Prefrontal cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; PUTAMEN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 1942488904     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.01.017     Document Type: Article

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