SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2025
The effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on sleep quality in patients with more than mild depressive mood: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Prospective open-label trial of personalised connectivity-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy for migraine.The journal of headache and pain · 2026Trial
- High- and low-frequency accelerated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for major depressive disorder.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
Background: The purpose of this study was to systematically evaluate the efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) therapy on sleep quality in patients with more than mild depressive mood. Methods: Randomized controlled trials in PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Embase, Scopus, and ScienceDirect on rTMS to improve sleep quality in patients with more than mild depressive mood up to September 2023 were searched. A meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.4 and Stata 17.0 software. Results: A total of 11 studies, which involved 548 patients, were included. After rTMS treatment, the effect on sleep quality improvement in patients with more than mild depressive mood was better in the experimental group than in the control group [ Conclusion: rTMS significantly improves sleep quality in patients with more than mild depression. Subgroup analyses showed that the group using the 1-Hz stimulation frequency, the group with more than 4 weeks of treatment time, and the group with rTMS alone had better efficacy in treating the sleep quality of patients with more than mild depressive mood using rTMS, with the use of combination treatment or not being the main source of heterogeneity. Systematic review registration: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/, identifier CRD42023467971.
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