Isabella Kreinin

TL;DR: Evidence is provided for the short-term efficacy of slow repetitive TMS in patients with recurrent major depression as compared with electroconvulsive therapy as well as the long-term outcome of this treatment in major depression and possibly other psychiatric disorders.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the left inferior frontal gyrus (lIFG) plays a major role in the interplay between the evaluation and generation networks and that inhibiting this region’s activity may have an effect on “releasing” the generation neural network, resulting in greater originality.

TL;DR: The results suggest that 3 Hz left rTMS has a higher therapeutic efficacy and tolerability in patients with major depression and the enhancement of cortical excitability may be related to the antidepressant action of rT MS.

TL;DR: The antidepressant effect of ECT was associated with an enhancement of left hemispheric excitability and rTMS did not add to the beneficial effect of NLP, but measures of cortical excitability might be useful for the assessment of treatment response.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the efficacy of slow repetitive TMS (rTMS) in patients with major depression, and found that patients who received rTMS had a significantly greater improvement in depression scores compared with those who received sham treatment.