rTMS as a Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease with and without Comorbidity of Depression: A Review

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...

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Autores principales: Rutherford, Grant, Gole, Rebecca, Moussavi, Zahra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4437275/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26317096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/679389
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-44372752015-08-27 rTMS as a Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease with and without Comorbidity of Depression: A Review Rutherford, Grant Gole, Rebecca Moussavi, Zahra Neurosci J Review Article 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. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4437275/ /pubmed/26317096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/679389 Text en Copyright © 2013 Grant Rutherford et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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