Cardiac safety of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in bulimic eating disorders

Date
2011-04-01Author
Van den Eynde, Frederique
Claudino, Angelica M. [UNIFESP]
Campbell, Iain
Horrell, Linda
Andiappan, Manoharan
Stahl, Daniel
Schmidt, Ulrike
Type
ArtigoISSN
1935-861XIs part of
Brain StimulationDOI
10.1016/j.brs.2010.06.003Metadata
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BackgroundRepetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is increasingly used in research. However, cardiac safety is not routinely assessed.ObjectiveThis study aims to investigate cardiac safety of rTMS in people with a bulimic eating disorder.MethodsThirty-eight people with a bulimic disorder were enrolled in a randomized sham-controlled trial. High frequency rTMS was delivered to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.ResultsrTMS did not alter blood pressure or heart rate.ConclusionsOur findings indicated that this rTMS paradigm has no cardiac complications as assessed by blood pressure and heart rate. This adds to the emerging literature on the cardiac safety of rTMS. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Citation
Brain Stimulation. New York: Elsevier B.V., v. 4, n. 2, p. 112-114, 2011.Keywords
eating disordersblood pressure
heart rate
Sponsorship
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
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