Can the 'yin and yang' BDNF hypothesis be used to predict the effects of rTMS treatment in neuropsychiatry?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 279-282

  Brunoni, Andre Russowsky ^a,b   Boggio, Paulo Sergio ^c   Fregni, Felipe ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHRONIC PAIN; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NERVE CELL; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PAIN; PSYCHIATRY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45649085654     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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