Is there any procognitive effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in depression?

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Authors

KUČEROVÁ Hana PŘIKRYL Radovan KAŠPÁREK Tomáš ČEŠKOVÁ Eva NAVRÁTILOVÁ Petra ČERNÍK Michal

Year of publication 2006
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
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Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Psychiatry, sexuology
Keywords magnetic stimulation; rTMS; depression; cognitive deficit
Description We found out statistically significant improvement in the part of A of Trail making test, in Verbal fluency test, in all index numbers of Wechsler memory scale and in categories of perseverativ errors and responses in Wisconsin Card sorting test. In other tests (part B of Trail making test) there were not any increase of the achievemet statiscicaly significant. Only in the Continuous Performance test there appeared by some patients moderate decrease of the achievement.
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