Impaired interhemispheric interactions in patients with major depression

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 671-677

  Bajwa, Sami ^a   Bermpohl, Felix ^b   Rigonatti, Sergio P ^c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a   Boggio, Paulo S ^d   Fregni, Felipe ^a,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^e BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticospinal excitability; Interhemispheric modulation; Major depression; Transcallosal inhibition; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; SERTRALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MODULATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; AFFECT; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AFFECT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 52649175482     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318183f86f     Document Type: Article

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