Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on late-onset hallucinations: a case report.

摘要

Several lines of evidence have established that low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the left temporoparietal cortex in schizophrenic patients with auditory hallucinations leads to the amelioration of symptoms for several weeks following treatment cessation (Hoffman et al., 2003; Aleman et al., 2007). Although Liang et al. (2010) hypothesized that rTMS is a possible novel therapeutic approach to dementia with Lewy bodies characterized clinically by visual hallucinations, few rTMS studies have examined elderly patients with psychotic symptoms, especially patients with hallucinations.