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June 21, 2010
Daily left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy for major depressive disorder
Daily left prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been studied as a potential treatment for depression, but previous work had mixed outcomes and did not adequately mask sham conditions. Objective: To test whether daily left prefrontal rTMS safely and effectively treats major depressive disorder ...
Conclusion: Daily left prefrontal rTMS as monotherapy produced statistically significant and clinically meaningful antidepressant therapeutic effects greater than sham.
April 29, 2010
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation is Efficacious as an Add-On to Pharmacological Therapy in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Single-session repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the motor cortex (M1) is effective in the treatment of chronic pain patients, but the analgesic effect of repeated sessions is still unknown. We evaluated the effects of rTMS in patients with refractory pain due to complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) type I ...
April 22, 2010
The Emerging Role for Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Optimizing the Treatment of Adolescent Depression
A growing body of research supports the efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for the treatment of MDD in adults ... There is, however, limited experience with rTMS as a therapeutic intervention for adolescent psychiatric disturbances. This review will summarize the rTMS efficacy and safety data in adults and describe all published experience with adolescent MDD ...
March 24, 2010
Chasing the elusive memories of Élianne Parent
After suffering total retrograde amnesia from a traumatic brain injury, woman’s memory improving thanks to the work of a Laval University neurophysiologist ...
March 16, 2010
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) during capsaicin-induced pain: modulatory effects on motor cortex excitability
Evidence by functional imaging studies suggests the role of left DLPFC in the inhibitory control of nociceptive transmission system. Pain exerts an inhibitory modulation on motor cortex, reducing MEP amplitude, while the effect of pain on motor intracortical excitability has not been studied so far. In the present study, we explored in healthy subjects the effect of capsaicin-induced pain and the modulatory influences of left DLPFC stimulation on motor corticospinal and intracortical excitability ...
March 4, 2010
Contralateral versus ipsilateral rTMS of temporoparietal cortex for the treatment of chronic unilateral tinnitus: comparative study
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) applied over left temporoparietal cortex has been reported to have a long-term therapeutic effect on tinnitus. We compare the impact of 1 and 25 Hz rTMS delivered either contralateral or ipsilateral to symptoms in 62 patients with unilateral chronic tinnitus ...
February 11, 2010
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Drug-Resistant Epilepsies: Rationale and Clinical Experience
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique which, over the last 25 years, has greatly expanded from a simple method for stimulating the motor cortex to an invaluable tool with multiple research, diagnostic and even therapeutic applications. In this review, we discuss the use of repetitive TMS as a means of suppressing cortical hyperexcitability in drug-resistant epilepsies ...
February 10, 2010
Left temporal low-frequency rTMS for the treatment of tinnitus: clinical predictors of treatment outcome - a retrospective study
There is increasing evidence that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can reduce chronic tinnitus. However, treatment results are characterized by high interindividual variability. Therefore, the identification of predictors for treatment response is of high clinical relevance ...
February 9, 2010
Unilateral low frequency versus sequential bilateral repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: is simpler better for treatment of resistant depression?
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) efficacy in the treatment of major depression has been shown in both low frequency right-sided and high frequency left-sided stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). The aim of the present investigation was to evaluate the hypothesis of an additive effect of bilateral stimulation compare to sequential to unilateral stimulation. Sixty patients with treatment-resistant depression were ...
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