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The role of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of cognitive impairment in stroke patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Mengting Liu, Guanai Bao, Lu Bai, Enyan Yu

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Synthesis in Science progress. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 6 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Effects of different modalities of transcranial magnetic stimulation on post-stroke cognitive impairment: a network meta-analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mengting LiuCancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital); Institute of Cancer and Basic Medicine(IBMC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1736-1681
Guanai BaoCancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital); Institute of Cancer and Basic Medicine(IBMC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Lu BaiCancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital); Institute of Cancer and Basic Medicine(IBMC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Enyan YuCancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital); Institute of Cancer and Basic Medicine(IBMC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5594-4365
Zhejiang Cancer Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stroke is a global health problem, and survivors of a stroke often suffer from cognitive impairment, which has an essential impact on the rehabilitation of various functions. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) has been widely used in the rehabilitation treatment of stroke patients. There are many investigations into how rTMS impacts motor dysfunction, speech dysfunction and swallowing dysfunction after stroke, but the analysis of rehabilitation effect on stroke patients with cognitive dysfunction is lacking. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of different rTMS related therapies on cognitive impairment and to evaluate its clinical effect on cognitive rehabilitation after stroke. Four databases including PubMed, EMBASE, MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library, were searched and a total of 2754 papers were collected. Two reviewers independently completed a review of all papers' titles and abstracts, screened out the documents that met the criteria, and carried out data extraction, quality assessment, and data analysis. A total of six studies with 197 patients were included. Three studies used the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) scale to evaluate the cognitive function with a mean effect size of 1.89 (95% CI = -3.08-6.86). Two studies used the Loewenstein Occupational Therapy of Cognitive Assessment (LOTCA) scale with the mean effect size of 1.64 (95% CI = -7.65-10.93). These studies were evaluated separately. Our article provides that rTMS has a positive effect on improving the cognitive ability of stroke patients, but the evidence is still limited, and further large-scale studies are needed to explore the optimal stimulus parameters.

Indexed as

Cognitive DysfunctionStrokeStroke RehabilitationCognitionHumansTranscranial Magnetic Stimulationcognitive impairmentmeta-analysisRepetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)strokesystematic review

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PMID33827345
PMCPMC10455033
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