Effectiveness of deep transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with a brief exposure procedure in post-traumatic stress disorder-a pilot study

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 377-383

  Isserles, Moshe ^a   Shalev, Arieh Y ^a   Roth, Yiftach ^b   Peri, Tuvia ^c   Kutz, Ilan ^d   Zlotnick, Elad ^a   Zangen, Abraham ^b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Deep TMS; DTMS; Exposure; mPFC; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIEF EXPOSURE PROCEDURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PILOT STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877787186     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2012.07.008     Document Type: Article

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