Amelioration of anergia and thought disorder with adjunctive high frequency cerebellar vermal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in schizophrenia: A case report

Schizophrenia Research

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 225-227

  Garg, Shobit ^a   Tikka, Sai Krishna ^a   Goyal, Nishant ^a   Sinha, Vinod Kumar ^a   Nizamie, Shamsul Haque ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

RISPERIDONE;

ADULT; ANERGY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICD-10; LETTER; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; PARANOIA; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYNDROME SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THOUGHT DISORDER; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LETHARGY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84871934614     PISSN: 09209964     EISSN: 15732509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2012.10.022     Document Type: Letter

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