A preliminary fMRI study of the effects on cortical activation of the treatment of refractory auditory hallucinations with rTMS

PB Fitzgerald; A Sritharan; J Benitez; ZJ Daskalakis; G Jackson; J Kulkarni; GF Egan

Journal article

A preliminary fMRI study of the effects on cortical activation of the treatment of refractory auditory hallucinations with rTMS

PB Fitzgerald, A Sritharan, J Benitez, ZJ Daskalakis, G Jackson, J Kulkarni, GF Egan

Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging | Published : 2007

DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.12.011

Abstract

Three patients underwent fMRI during a word generation task before and after successful treatment of auditory hallucinations with rTMS and were compared to four control subjects. There was a significant increase and more normal task related brain activation in brain areas involved in language processing including left temporoparietal cortex after rTMS treatment. © 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.