Combined VNS - rTMS treatment in a patient with therapy resistant depression

Pharmacopsychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-40

  Sperling, W ^a   Kornhuber, J ^a   Wiltfang, J ^a   Bleich, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITALOPRAM; DOXEPIN; OLANZAPINE; REBOXETINE; RISPERIDONE; VENLAFAXINE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DELUSION; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; GUILT; HAMILTON SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 34147115587     PISSN: 01763679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-958524     Document Type: Article

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