Ghanbari Jolfaei Atefeh, Naji Borzooyeh, Nasr Esfehani Mehdi
Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
School of Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health (Tehran Psychiatric Institute), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
Iran J Psychiatry Behav Sci. 2016 Mar 15;10(1):e3561. doi: 10.17795/ijpbs-3561. eCollection 2016 Mar.
A 29-year-old woman with schizophrenia introduced for application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for refractory visual hallucinations. Following inhibitory rTMS on visual cortex she reported significant reduction in severity and simplification of complexity of hallucinations, which lasted for three months. rTMS can be considered as a possibly potent treatment for visual hallucinations.
一名29岁的精神分裂症女性患者因难治性视幻觉而接受重复经颅磁刺激治疗。在对视觉皮层进行抑制性重复经颅磁刺激后,她报告称幻觉的严重程度显著降低,复杂性也有所简化,这种情况持续了三个月。重复经颅磁刺激可被视为一种可能有效的视幻觉治疗方法。