The effect of long-term high frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on working memory in schizophrenia and healthy controls-A randomized placebo-controlled, double-blind fMRI study

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 300-307

  Guse, Birgit ^a,b   Falkai, Peter ^a   Gruber, Oliver ^a   Whalley, Heather ^c   Gibson, Lydia ^a   Hasan, Alkomiet ^a   Obst, Katrin ^d   Dechent, Peter ^e   McIntosh, Andrew ^c   Suchan, Boris ^b   Wobrock, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; FMRI; Healthy controls; Long term effect; Middle frontal gyrus; RTMS; Schizophrenia; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROMODULATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867584673     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.09.034     Document Type: Article

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