Ornah H. Dolberg

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  Article: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Is as Effective as Electroconvulsive Therapy in the Treatment of Nondelusional Major Depressive Disorder: An Open Study

  Leon Grunhaus, Pinhas N Dannon, Shaul Schreiber, Ornah H. Dolberg, Revital Amiaz, Reuven Ziv, Eli Lefkifker
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  ABSTRACT: . When the psychosis-- nonpsychosis grouping was considered, patients with psychosis responded dramatically better to ECT in all assessments, whereas those without psychosis responded similarly to both treatments. Conclusions: Overall ECT was a more potent treatment for patients with MDD, this being particularly evident in patients with MDD and psychosis; however, in patients with MDD without psychosis the effects of rTMS were similar to those of ECT. The results we report are encouraging and support an important role for rTMS in the treatment of severe MDD; however, additional blinded studies are needed to precisely define this role. Biol Psychiatry 2000;47:314--324 2000 Society of Biological Psychiatry Key Words: TMS, ECT, MDD, transcranial magnetic stimulation, electroconvulsive therapy Introduction T ranscranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was introduced by Barker et al in 1985 as a new method for noninvas
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