Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for refractory symptoms in schizophrenia

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 85-90

  Blumberger, Daniel M ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^b   Mulsant, Benoit H ^a   Daskalakis, Zafiris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hallucinations; Negative symptoms; Schizophrenia; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Treatment; Treatment resistance

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; DIATHERMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSCILLATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITIVE SYNDROME; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SHAM PROCEDURE; SYMPTOM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 76649111372     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e3283366657     Document Type: Review

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