Posted by rod on July 31, 2003, at 7:21:06
In reply to Listen, I'm done here, posted by linkadge on July 31, 2003, at 6:42:14
"[Are convulsions necessary for the antidepressive effect of electroconvulsive therapy: outcome of repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation]"
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9333558&dopt=Abstract
A note: Sismotherapy (ST)= electroconvulsive therapy...However, recent preclinical data using attenuation, and clinical findings using reiterated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), suggest that it may not be necessary to provoke a clonic convulsion in order to achieve the beneficial psychotropic and anticonvulsant effects of ST...
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