Antidepressant effects of augmentative transcranial magnetic stimulation: Randomised multicentre trial

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 191, Issue NOV., 2007, Pages 441-448

  Herwig, Uwe ^a,b   Fallgatter, Andreas J ^c   Höppner, Jacquelline ^d   Eschweiler, Gerhard W ^e   Kron, Martina ^a   Hajak, Göran ^f   Padberg, Frank ^g   Naderi Heiden, Angela ^h   Abler, Birgit ^a   Eichhammer, Peter ^f   Grossheinrich, Nicola ^g   Hay, Birgit ^a   Kammer, Thomas ^a   Langguth, Berthold ^f   Laske, Christoph ^e   Plewnia, Christian ^e   Richter, Melany M ^c   Schulz, Merten ^d   Unterecker, Stefan ^c   Zinke, Antonia ^d   Spitzer, Manfred ^a   Schönfeldt Lecuona, Carlos ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^h MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; LORAZEPAM; MIRTAZAPINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35948998450     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.106.034371     Document Type: Article

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