A pilot double-blind sham-controlled trial of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for patients with refractory schizophrenia treated with clozapine

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 203-207

  de Jesus, Danilo Rocha ^a   Gil, Alexei ^a   Barbosa, Leonardo ^a   Lobato, Maria Inês ^a   Magalhães, Pedro Vieira da Silva ^a   Favalli, Gabriela Pereira de Souza ^a   Marcolin, Marco Antonio ^b   Daskalakis, Zafiris Jeffrey ^c   Belmonte de Abreu, Paulo da Silva ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory hallucinations; Clinical Trial; General psychopathology; Quality of life; RTMS

Indexed keywords

CLOZAPINE; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION RATING SCALE; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CLOZAPINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79958249150     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 01651781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.11.022     Document Type: Article

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