A sham-controlled trial of left and right temporal rTMS for the treatment of auditory hallucinations

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 541-546

  Loo, C K ^a   Sainsbury, K ^a   Mitchell, P ^a   Hadzi Pavlovic, D ^a   Sachdev, P S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory hallucinations; Schizophrenia; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HALLUCINATIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952424744     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291709990900     Document Type: Article

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