February 16, 2018 | View Online | Psychiatric News

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

How do the antidepressant effects and safety of daily left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for 3 to 6 weeks compare with those of psychopharmacological treatments for depression?

A. TMS has a substantially greater risk of seizures.

B. Effect sizes are consistently smaller for TMS.

C. TMS results were not clinically meaningful.

D. TMS has been shown to be effective in “real-world” patients with treatment-resistant depression.

E. High rates of patient discontinuation of TMS limit its applicability in real-world populations.

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