BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 36-41 , January 2010

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treats postpartum depression

  • Keith S. Garcia

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Missouri
    • ,
  • Patricia Flynn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Missouri
    • ,
  • Katherine J. Pierce

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Missouri
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Katherine J. Pierce, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Campus Box 8134, 660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110.
    • ,
  • Marty Caudle

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis Missouri

Received 10 March 2009 ,Revised 11 April 2009 ,Accepted 1 June 2009.

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 Funding for the project was awarded by the B.J.C. Townley fund supporting investigator-initiated protocols.

PII: S1935-861X(09)00055-2

doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2009.06.001

BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 36-41 , January 2010

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