Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of auditory hallucinations: A preliminary open-label study

Annals of General Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rosenberg, Oded ^a   Roth, Yiftach ^a   Kotler, Moshe ^a   Zangen, Abraham ^b   Dannon, Pinhas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS RATING SCALE; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEEP TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OPEN STUDY; PARIETAL CORTEX; RATING SCALE; SCALE FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS; SCALE FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF POSITIVE SYMPTOMS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCORING SYSTEM; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79651471649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1744859X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-859X-10-3     Document Type: Article

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