Awareness of symptoms amelioration following low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in a patient with tourette syndrome and comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 341-343

  Salatino, Adriana ^a   Momo, Elisabetta ^a   Nobili, Marcello ^b   Berti, Annamaria ^a   Ricci, Raffaella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Koelliker Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTOMUTILATION; BECK ANXIETY INVENTORY; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CASE REPORT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GILLES DE LA TOURETTE SYNDROME; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE STIMULATOR; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEIZURE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AWARENESS; COMPLICATION; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; TOURETTE SYNDROME;

AWARENESS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; TOURETTE SYNDROME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84896403255     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2014.01.002     Document Type: Letter

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