Trial reportJournal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology2016
Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided, Open-Label, High-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder.
Trial report in Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Glutamatergic and GABAergic Biomarkers in rTMS for Adolescent Depression
Evaluating the Efficacy and Tolerability of Targeted Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Youth
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
- Efficacy and safety of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in youth with depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized sham-controlled trials.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in children and young people with psychiatric disorders: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of adolescent depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of aggregated and individual-patient data from uncontrolled studies.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Neuromodulation Treatment Effects on Suicidality.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation frequency effects on suicidal ideation in adolescents with major depressive disorder.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Trial
- Neurostructural Differences in Adolescents With Treatment-Resistant Depression and Treatment Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant depression in adolescents: a double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled trial.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Trial
- Improvement in hypersomnia with high frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in depressed adolescents: Preliminary evidence from an open-label study.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2020Trial
- Research Review: A scoping review exploring the needs, barriers, and facilitators to the collection of biological data in adolescence for mental health research.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Review
- Test-retest reliability and symptom association of personalized depression TMS targets: A comparative study of refined seed-based (RSA) and hierarchical clustering (HCA) approaches.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026Article
- The Effectiveness of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Adolescents and Young Adults With Major Depressive Disorder.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- A Case Report of High-Dose Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-Induced Excessive Laughing in a 6-Year-Old Boy With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Clinical case reports · 2025Article
- Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation for adolescents with treatment-resistant depression: Behavioral and neural correlates of clinical improvement.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Feasibility, safety, and efficacy of high-dose intermittent theta burst stimulation in children with autism spectrum disorder: study protocol for a pilot randomized sham-controlled trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation for adolescents with treatment-resistant depression: A preliminary dose-finding study exploring safety and clinical effectiveness.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Brain Circuits Involved in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Response in Adults Are Connected to a Similar Prefrontal Target in Children.Biological psychiatry · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of individualized rTMS under sMRI guidance in reducing depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in adolescents with depressive disorders: an open-label study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Optimizing TMS Coil Placement Approaches for Targeting the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Depressed Adolescents: An Electric Field Modeling Study.Biomedicines · 2023Article
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- Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Resistant Depression: A Scoping Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectivePreliminary studies suggest that repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) may be an effective and tolerable intervention for adolescents with treatment-resistant depression. There is limited rationale to inform coil placement for rTMS dosing in this population. We sought to examine and compare three localization techniques for coil placement in the context of an open-label trial of high-frequency rTMS for adolescents with treatment-resistant depression.
methodsTen adolescents with treatment-resistant depression were enrolled in an open-label trial of high-frequency rTMS. Participants were offered 30 rTMS sessions (10 Hz, 120% motor threshold, left 3000 pulses applied to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex) over 6-8 weeks. Coil placement for treatment was MRI guided. The scalp location for treatment was compared with the locations identified with standard 5 cm rule and Beam F3 methods.
resultsSeven adolescents completed 30 rTMS sessions. No safety or tolerability concerns were identified. Depression severity as assessed with the Children's Depression Rating Scale Revised improved from baseline to treatment 10, treatment 20, and treatment 30. Gains in depressive symptom improvement were maintained at 6 month follow-up visits. An MRI-guided approach for coil localization was feasible and efficient. Our results suggest that the 5 cm rule, Beam F3, and the MRI-guided localization approaches provided variable scalp targets for rTMS treatment.
conclusionsOpen-label, high-frequency rTMS was feasible, tolerable, and effective for adolescents with treatment-resistant depression. Larger, blinded, sham-controlled trials are needed for definitive safety and efficacy data. Further efforts to understand optimal delivery, dosing, and biomarker development for rTMS treatments of adolescent depression are warranted.
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