Trial reportThe international journal of neuropsychopharmacology2019
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Markers of Antidepressant Treatment in Adolescents With Major Depressive Disorder.
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- Scoping review of precision child and youth mental health research: dwelling in possibility.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Long-Interval Intracortical Inhibition as a Biomarker in Neuropsychiatric Disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Cortical high-threshold and low-activation characteristics in adolescent depression: a cross-age differential analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for adolescent treatment resistant depression - a feasibility study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Across the Lifespan: Impact of Developmental and Degenerative Processes.Biological psychiatry · 2024Review
- Abnormal amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation values as a neuroimaging biomarker for major depressive disorder with suicidal attempts in adolescents: A resting-state fMRI and support vector machine analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Target to treatment: A charge to develop biomarkers of response and tolerability in child and adolescent psychiatry.Clinical and translational science · 2022Review
- The roles of the LpSTS and DLPFC in self-prioritization: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
- Impact of the number of conditioning pulses on motor cortex excitability: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Beyond the target area: an integrative view of tDCS-induced motor cortex modulation in patients and athletes.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe goal of this study was to examine baseline transcranial magnetic stimulation measures of cortical inhibition and excitability in depressed patients and characterize their longitudinal posttreatment changes.
methodsFifteen adolescents (age 13-17 years) with moderate to severe major depressive disorder and 22 healthy controls (age 9-17) underwent single- and paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation and clinical assessments. Transcranial magnetic stimulation measures included short-interval intracortical inhibition (2 and 4 milliseconds), long-interval intracortical inhibition (100, 150, and 200 milliseconds), cortical silent period, and intracortical facilitation (10, 15, and 20 milliseconds). Ten participants with major depressive disorder initiated antidepressant treatment or had dose adjustments. These participants were reassessed after treatment. Depression symptom severity was measured with the Children's Depression Rating Scale, Revised. Robust regression modeling compared healthy and depressed adolescents at baseline. Relationships between changes in cortical inhibition and changes in depressive symptom severity were assessed in the depressed adolescents receiving antidepressant treatment.
resultsOur results revealed that at baseline, short-interval intracortical inhibition-2 was significantly reduced (Padj = .01) in depressed participants, suggesting impaired cortical inhibition compared with healthy controls. At follow-up, improvement in Children's Depression Rating Scale, Revised scores correlated with improvement in short-interval intracortical inhibition-4 amplitude (greater inhibition) after antidepressant treatment (R2 = 0.63; P = .01).
conclusionsThese results suggest that cortical inhibition measures may have promise as biomarkers in adolescents treated for depression.
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