Change in brain activation after transcranial pulsed electromagnetic fields in treatment-resistant depression

CONCLUSIONS: We found a decrease in reward-related activation as a result of tPEMF stimulation, while no effect of tPEMF on social-emotional processing was found. The treatment-related reduction in activation of regulatory regions may reflect normalization and may have implications for anhedonia. These findings suggest that there is an effect of tPEMF on brain activation of relevant circuits, albeit in the absence of a clinical antidepressant effect.PMID:38580858 | DOI:10.1007/s00406-024-01797-w
Source: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research