Hostname: page-component-5c6d5d7d68-tdptf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-08-07T00:21:30.692Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Transcranial magnetic stimulation in late-aged people with depressive disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2023

P. Liubov  and
D. Egorova
P. Liubov*
Affiliation:
1Department of gerontopsychiatry, Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry - branch of the V. Serbsky National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Narcology, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
D. Egorova
Affiliation:
1Department of gerontopsychiatry, Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry - branch of the V. Serbsky National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Narcology, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Introduction

One of the most common mental disorders in the elderly is depression.

Because of the high frequency of side effects of pharmacotherapy and the comorbid medical illnesses, there are not many ways to treat it.

Non-drug therapies, such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), could help overcome the limitations of standard drug therapy for this type of mental disorders.

Objectives

Development of approaches to improving improve the provision of psychiatric care to elderly patients using rTMS.

Methods

30 patients over the age of 60 with anxiety-depressive spectrum disorders meeting criteria F30-39, F06.3, F06.4 (ICD-10) and a control group with similar criteria that were not treated with rTMS, were recruited from the psychiatric department at a university hospital (Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Psychiatry). Clinical, psychopathological, anamnestic, psychometric (Montgomery-Asberg scale (MADRS), Hamilton scale (HARS), Mini-mental state examination scale (MMSE) instrumental (electroencephalography) research methods were used. Patients of the experimental group underwent 15 sessions of low-frequency rTMS on the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (RDLPC). Conditions for the application of 1200 pulses were as follows: frequency - 1 Hz; intensity - 120% of the threshold of motor response (RMT) of the subject; pulse number - 1200; pulse sequence - 300; sequence duration - 300 seconds; sequence interval - 60 seconds; and stimulation time - 23 minutes. Subsequently, the patients were re-examined using the above-mentioned scales to assess their mental state in dynamics.

Results

Analysis of the collected data shows an increase in the number of respondents and the frequency of achieving remission in the experimental group compared to the control group. No severe side effects of rTMS were observed.

Conclusions

rTMS may be a safe method of adjuvant therapy in groups of elderly patients with anxiety-depressive spectrum disorders. Further studies will be needed to clarify the results.

Disclosure of Interest

None Declared

Type
Abstract
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 66 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 31st European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2023 , pp. S234
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Psychiatric Association
Submit a response

Comments

No Comments have been published for this article.