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
MU Faculty or unit	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.
Related projects:	The internal organisation and neurobiological mechanisms of functional CNS systems under normal and pathological conditions. Ovlivnění kognitivního deficitu u nemocných s depresivní poruchou pomocí repetitivní transkraniální magnetické stimulace (rTMS) v podmínkách jednoduše slepé, randomizované studie