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January 29, 2010
Motor cortex rTMS reduces acute pain provoked by laser stimulation in patients with chronic neuropathic pain
To assess the modulation of acute provoked pain by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the motor cortex in patients with chronic neuropathic pain ...
January 29, 2010
Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in alcohol dependence: a sham-controlled study
To study the anticraving efficacy of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the right dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex (DLPFC) in patients with alcohol dependence ...
January 29, 2010
Noninvasive brain stimulation with high- and low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder
We aimed to investigate the efficacy of 20 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of either right or left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) as compared to sham rTMS for the relief of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-associated symptoms ...
January 29, 2010
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of epilepsia partialis continua
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a technique for noninvasive focal brain stimulation by which small intracranial electrical currents are generated by a fluctuating extracranial magnetic field. In clinical epilepsy, rTMS has been applied most often interictally to reduce seizure frequency. Less often, rTMS has been used to terminate ongoing seizures, as in instances of epilepsia partialis continua (EPC). Whether ictal rTMS is effective and safe in the treatment of EPC has not been extensively studied. Here, we describe our recent experience with rTMS in the treatment of EPC, as an early step toward evaluating the safety and efficacy of rTMS in the treatment of intractable ongoing focal seizures ...
December 15, 2009
Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in alcohol dependence
To study the anticraving efficacy of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the right dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex (DLPFC) in patients with alcohol dependence ...
November 10, 2009
Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $2.2 Million to Four Clinical Trials for New Parkinson's Interventions
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School will test the potential of noninvasive repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to improve both motor and mood symptoms in Parkinson's disease. In October 2008, rTMS was approved by the FDA for the treatment of major depression outside the context of PD. It has also shown promise to alleviate the motor symptoms of Parkinson's. Dr. Pascual-Leone and colleagues, working at four North American sites, will enroll 160 Parkinson's patients whose motor symptoms are significant despite medication and who have been diagnosed with a depressive disorder. The researchers predict that rTMS will improve motor symptoms, depression, or both.
November 4, 2009
rTMS May Be Effective in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Depression
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) may be an effective therapy for treatmentresistant bipolar depression, according to the results of a recent pilot study led by Guohua Xia, MD, PhD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Davis ...
October 27, 2009
Cognitive effects of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was introduced as a non-invasive tool for the investigation of the motor cortex. The repetitive application (rTMS), causing longer lasting effects, was used to study the influence on a variety of cerebral functions. High-frequency (>1 Hz) rTMS is known to depolarize neurons under the stimulating coil and to indirectly affect areas being connected and related to emotion and behavior ...
October 07, 2009
Antidepressant efficacy of high-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in double-blind sham-controlled designs
For more than a decade high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been applied to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) in search of an alternative treatment for depression. The aim of this study was to provide an update on its clinical efficacy by performing a meta-analysis involving double-blind sham-controlled studies ...
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