Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in non-treatment-resistant depression

Abstract

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been investigated as treatment for major depressive episodes since the early 1990s. Using data from a recent meta-analysis, we show that most patients included in randomised trials display relatively high degrees of treatment resistance. This might have unfavourably biased the clinical reputation of rTMS.

Publication
British Journal of Psychiatry 1-2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2019.75