[Will electroconvulsive therapy induce seizures: magnetic brain stimulation as hypothesis of a new psychiatric therapy]

Psychiatr Pol. 1992 Nov-Dec;26(6):531-41.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

This study presents a hypothesis of a new psychiatric therapy. Deep, low-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation is theoretically able to evoke the same therapeutic effects as electro-convulsive therapy but in a softer mode/painlessly and without a motor seizure.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Brain / physiology*
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy* / methods
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetics*
  • Male
  • Seizures