BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 4, Issue 2 , Pages 112-114 , April 2011

Cardiac safety of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in bulimic eating disorders

  • Frederique Van den Eynde

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: Frederique Van den Eynde, Section of Eating Disorders, P.O. 59, De Crespigny Park, SE5 8AF, London, UK
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  • Angélica M. Claudino

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
    • Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • Iain Campbell

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Linda Horrell

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Manoharan Andiappan

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Daniel Stahl

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Ulrike Schmidt

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Received 19 May 2010 ,Revised 14 June 2010 ,Accepted 16 June 2010.

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 F.V.d.E. is a research fellow of the Marie Curie Research Training Network INTACT (Individually Tailored Stepped Care for Women with Eating Disorders; MRTN-CT-2006-035988).

 A.M.C. was funded by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior), Ministry of Education, Brazil, with a postdoctoral grant at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, during 2008.

PII: S1935-861X(10)00061-6

doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2010.06.003

BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 4, Issue 2 , Pages 112-114 , April 2011

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