[HTML][HTML] Anhedonia and reward-circuit connectivity distinguish nonresponders from responders to dorsomedial prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in …

J Downar, J Geraci, TV Salomons, K Dunlop… - Biological …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Depression is a heterogeneous mental illness. Neurostimulation treatments, by
targeting specific nodes within the brain's emotion-regulation network, may be useful both as
therapies and as probes for identifying clinically relevant depression subtypes. Methods
Here, we applied 20 sessions of magnetic resonance imaging-guided repetitive transcranial
magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in 47 unipolar or bipolar
patients with a medication-resistant major depressive episode. Results Treatment response …