Rutherford Grant, Gole Rebecca, Moussavi Zahra
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 5V6 ; Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 5V6.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 5V6.
Neurosci J. 2013;2013:679389. doi: 10.1155/2013/679389. Epub 2013 Feb 7.
With an ever-increasing population of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients worldwide, a noninvasive treatment for AD is needed. In this paper, the application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulus (rTMS) as a treatment for patients with probable AD is compared to the application of rTMS as a treatment for depression. Comorbidity of depression and dementia is discussed, as well as possible links between the two diseases. The possible confounding antidepressant effects of rTMS on cognitive improvements in AD patients are discussed.
随着全球阿尔茨海默病(AD)患者数量的不断增加,需要一种针对AD的非侵入性治疗方法。在本文中,将重复经颅磁刺激(rTMS)作为可能患有AD的患者的治疗方法的应用与将rTMS作为抑郁症治疗方法的应用进行了比较。讨论了抑郁症和痴呆症的共病情况以及这两种疾病之间可能的联系。还讨论了rTMS对AD患者认知改善可能产生的混杂抗抑郁作用。