Cognitive and volumetric predictors of response to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) - A prospective follow-up study

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 12-19

  Furtado, Christina P ^a   Hoy, Kate E ^a   Maller, Jerome J ^a   Savage, Greg ^b   Daskalakis, Zafiris J ^c   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a  

^a School of Psychology and Psychiatry ^*  (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automated segmentation; Cognitive function; Imaging; Treatment resistant depression; Volumetric analysis

Indexed keywords

AMISULPRIDE; ARIPIPRAZOLE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; LAMOTRIGINE; LITHIUM; MONOAMINE OXIDASE A INHIBITOR; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; PERICIAZINE; QUETIAPINE; SEROTONIN 2C ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DSM-IV; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAMILTON SCALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESISTANT DEPRESSION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, TREATMENT-RESISTANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862539746     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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