Safety and benefits of distance-adjusted prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation in depressed patients 55-75 years of age: A pilot study

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 249-256

  Nahas, Ziad ^a,b   Li, Xingbao ^a,b   Kozel, F Andrew ^a,b   Mirzki, Dario ^a   Memon, Mohammed ^a   Miller, Kristen ^a   Yamanaka, Kaori ^a,b   Anderson, Berry ^a   Chae, Jeong Ho ^a,b   Bohning, Daryl E ^b   Mintzer, Jacobo ^a   George, Mark S ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Depression; Geriatric; Prefrontal; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DISTANCE ADJUSTED PREFRONTAL TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR THRESHOLD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN STUDY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PILOT STUDY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SKULL; STIMULATION INTENSITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AGED; ATROPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKULL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 3543030442     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20015     Document Type: Article

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