Kar Sujita Kumar
Department of Psychiatry, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, India.
Clin Psychopharmacol Neurosci. 2019 Feb 28;17(1):25-33. doi: 10.9758/cpn.2019.17.1.25.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been increasingly used in the treatment of various neuropsychiatric disorders including depression over the past two decades. The responses to treatment with TMS are variable as found in the recent studies. Evidences suggest that various factors influence the outcome of depression treated with TMS. Understanding the predictors of response to TMS treatment in depression will guide the clinician in appropriate selection of patients for TMS treatment as well as needful modification in the TMS technique and protocol to have a better clinical outcome. This article comprehensively reviews the factors that predict the outcome of TMS treatment in depression.
在过去二十年中,经颅磁刺激(TMS)越来越多地用于治疗包括抑郁症在内的各种神经精神疾病。正如最近研究所发现的,TMS治疗的反应存在差异。有证据表明,多种因素会影响TMS治疗抑郁症的效果。了解抑郁症患者对TMS治疗反应的预测因素,将有助于临床医生合理选择接受TMS治疗的患者,并对TMS技术和方案进行必要的调整,以获得更好的临床效果。本文全面综述了预测抑郁症TMS治疗效果的因素。