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

• 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
• 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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