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Treatment of patients with geriatric depression with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.


ABSTRACT: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has become a useful tool to treat different neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression, dementia and extrapyramidal syndromes insufficiently responding to conventional treatment. In this SHAM-controlled exploratory study safety, symptom improvement as well as changes in inflammation markers and neurotransmitter precursor amino acids availability were studied after a prefrontal cortex (PFC) stimulation using rTMS as add-on treatment in 29 patients with geriatric depression. Out of these, ten patients received SHAM treatment. Treatment was well tolerated, no serious adverse effects were observed. A clear improvement in symptoms of depression with a significant decrease in the HAMD-7 (U?=?3.306, p?=?0.001) was found by rTMS treatment. In parallel, serum phenylalanine dropped significantly (U?=?2.340, p?

SUBMITTER: Leblhuber F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6647391 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Treatment of patients with geriatric depression with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Leblhuber F F   Steiner K K   Fuchs Dietmar D  

Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) 20190627 8


Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has become a useful tool to treat different neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression, dementia and extrapyramidal syndromes insufficiently responding to conventional treatment. In this SHAM-controlled exploratory study safety, symptom improvement as well as changes in inflammation markers and neurotransmitter precursor amino acids availability were studied after a prefrontal cortex (PFC) stimulation using rTMS as add-on treatment in 29 pa  ...[more]

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