ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2022
Altered Brain Function and Causal Connectivity Induced by Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder.
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- Structural rather than functional brain alterations that characterize the differences between major depressive disorder and primary insomnia: a comparative meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- Structural and functional brain alterations in depression with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment: a multimodal coordinate-based meta-analysis.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Review
- Changes in Neural Activities and Neuroplasticity Related to Nonpharmacological Interventions for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Literature Review.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Review
- Neural Electrical Correlates of Subjective Happiness.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Brain connectivity and transcriptional changes induced by rTMS in first-episode major depressive disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Neural mechanisms of CALM intervention to improve CRCI in breast cancer survivors: an fMRI-based study.American journal of cancer research · 2025Article
- Altered dynamic neural activities in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder and comorbid depressive symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Impaired effective functional connectivity in the social preference of children with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Effects of high-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation on theta-gamma oscillations and coupling in the prefrontal cortex of rats during working memory task.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2023Article
- Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and their underlying neural mechanisms evaluated with magnetic resonance imaging-based brain connectivity network analyses.European journal of radiology open · 2023Review
- A Study of Differential Resting-State Brain Functional Activity in Males and Females with Recurrent Depressive Disorder.Brain sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Objective: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can effectively improve depression symptoms in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD); however, its mechanism of action remains obscure. This study explored the neuralimaging mechanisms of rTMS in improving depression symptoms in patients with MDD. Methods: In this study, MDD patients with first-episode, drug-naive ( Results: Before treatment, patients with MDD had significantly lower ALFF in the left superior frontal gyrus ( Conclusion: rTMS treatment not only improves the local neural activity in the middle frontal gyrus, superior frontal gyrus, and precuneus but also strengthens the bidirectional causal connectivity between the middle and superior frontal gyri and the causal connectivity from the inferior temporal to the middle frontal gyri. Changes in these neuroimaging indices may represent the neural mechanisms underlying rTMS treatment in MDD. Clinical Trial Registration: This study was registered in the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (Registration number: ChiCTR1800019761).
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