Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2012 Nov;25(6):535-41. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e328358df8c.
Electromagnetic brain stimulation is performed in various ways in psychiatric settings for the treatment of a variety of psychiatric disorders.
Transcranial direct current stimulation is a comparatively simple procedure. The available results warrant optimism regarding the future of this therapeutic approach in psychiatry. Multicentre studies of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation demonstrate a moderate treatment effect in depression. Theta burst stimulation and deep brain repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation represent innovative promising developments. The invasiveness of deep brain stimulation still causes this method to be one of the last resorts, even though promising results in severely disordered patients have been published.
In our view, the field of brain stimulation will be rapidly moving forward in the near future and will establish itself as one more of the 'tools of the trade' in psychiatric therapeutic practice.
在精神科环境中，通过多种方式进行电磁脑刺激，以治疗各种精神疾病。
经颅直流电刺激是一种相对简单的程序。现有的结果对这种治疗方法在精神病学中的未来充满乐观。重复经颅磁刺激的多中心研究表明，在抑郁症中有中度的治疗效果。θ爆发刺激和深部脑重复经颅磁刺激代表了创新的有前途的发展。尽管已经发表了严重障碍患者的有希望的结果，但深部脑刺激的侵入性仍使这种方法成为最后的手段之一。
我们认为，脑刺激领域将在不久的将来迅速发展，并将成为精神科治疗实践中的另一种“工具”。
