Transcranial magnetic stimulation: A device intended for the psychiatrist's office, but what is its future clinical role?

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 559-566

  Shah, Dhwani B ^a   Weaver, Laurel ^a   O'Reardon, John P ^a  

^a TMS Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Clinical applications; Major depression; Pain; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EPILEPSY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PANIC; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEIZURE; SKIN DISCOMFORT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; META ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PSYCHIATRY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55249100494     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.5.5.559     Document Type: Review

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