Trial reportRevista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)
Clinical improvement in patients with borderline personality disorder after treatment with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: preliminary results.
Trial report in Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02273674 (Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Borderline Personality Disorder Patients. Effects in Clinical Measurements, Inhibition, Cognitive Flexibility, and Social Cognition Process), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Borderline Personality Disorder Patients. Effects in Clinical Measurements, Inhibition, Cognitive Flexibility, and Social Cognition Process
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impulsivity and its Therapeutic Management in Borderline Personality Disorder: a Systematic Review.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2020Pooled it
- Effects of intermittent theta burst stimulation add-on to dialectical behavioral therapy in borderline personality disorder: results of a randomized, sham-controlled pilot trial.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2025Trial
- Research progress on addictive features and reward circuit mechanisms in non-suicidal self-injury and the feasibility of precision neuromodulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Non-invasive brain stimulation for borderline personality disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Annals of general psychiatry · 2025Review
- Effects on impulsivity and delay discounting of intermittent theta burst stimulation add-on to dialectical behavioral therapy in borderline personality disorder: a randomized, sham-controlled pilot trial.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- Theta burst stimulation add on to dialectical behavioral therapy in borderline-personality-disorder: methods and design of a randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- Efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment in reducing neuropsychiatric symptomatology after traumatic brain injury.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Psychosocial and pharmacological interventions for personality disorders in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Modulating Behavioural and Self-Reported Aggression with Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation: A Literature Review.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Validity and Reliability of the Urdu Version of the McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Brain Connectivity and Symptom Changes After Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- The Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Anxiety in Patients With Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: AFrontiers in neurology · 2020Article
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of anxiety disorder.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2019Review
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Abstract
objectiveCurrent treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) consists of psychotherapy and pharmacological interventions. However, the use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) could be beneficial to improve some BPD symptoms. The objective of this study was to evaluate clinical improvement in patients with BPD after application of rTMS over the right or left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC).
methodTwenty-nine patients with BPD from the National Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico, were randomized in two groups to receive 15 sessions of rTMS applied over the right (1 Hz, n=15) or left (5 Hz, n=14) DLPFC. Improvement was measured by the Clinical Global Impression Scale for BPD (CGI-BPD), Borderline Evaluation of Severity Over Time (BEST), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A), and Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS).
resultsIntragroup comparison showed significant (p < 0.05) reductions in every psychopathologic domain of the CGI-BPD and in the total scores of all scales in both groups.
conclusionsBoth protocols produced global improvement in severity and symptoms of BPD, particularly in impulsiveness, affective instability, and anger. Further studies are warranted to explore the therapeutic effect of rTMS in BPD. CLINICAL
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