Introducing magnetic seizure therapy: A novel therapy for treatment resistant depression

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 591-598

  Hoy, Kate E ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Cognition; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; DULOXETINE; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; LITHIUM; OLANZAPINE; PAROXETINE; REBOXETINE; SERTRALINE; VALPROIC ACID; VENLAFAXINE;

ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ATTENTION; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISORIENTATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HAMILTON SCALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MACACA; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC SEIZURE THERAPY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; RELAPSE; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; REVIEW; SCALP; SEIZURE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SKULL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME PERCEPTION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT DURATION; WORD LIST RECALL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; MAGNETOTHERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY; SEIZURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953828657     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048674.2010.481278     Document Type: Review

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