Treatment of late-life depression: A role of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 437-444

  Jorge, Ricardo E ^a   Robinson, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; SERTRALINE;

ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DRUG EFFICACY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL THERAPY; LATE LIFE DEPRESSION; MORTALITY; NERVE STIMULATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BRAIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL COMPETENCY; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOTHERAPY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855247674     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2011.633501     Document Type: Article

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