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TMS – the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2007

K. P. Ebmeier  and
L. L. Herrmann
K. P. Ebmeier*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, Oxford, UK
L. L. Herrmann
Affiliation:
University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, Oxford, UK
*
*Address for correspondence: Professor K. P. Ebmeier, University of Oxford, Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK. (Email: Klaus.ebmeier@psych.ox.ac.uk)
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Keywords

Antidepressant drugsmajor depressionmeta-analysisrandomized controlled trialstranscranial magnetic stimulation

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , March 2008 , pp. 319 - 321
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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