A study of the effectiveness of high-frequency left prefrontal cortex transcranial magnetic stimulation in major depression in patients who have not responded to right-sided stimulation

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-15

  Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a   McQueen, Susan ^a   Herring, Sally ^a   Hoy, Kate ^a   Segrave, Rebecca ^a   Kulkarni, Jayashri ^a   Daskalakis, Zafiris J ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Depression; Prefrontal cortex; Remission; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Response

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMISSION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPHYSICS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651161840     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.06.017     Document Type: Article

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