Rebecca L D Kan, Bella B B Zhang, Tim T Z Lin, Alvin H P Tang, Adam W L Xia, Penny P I Qin, Minxia Jin, Kenneth N K Fong, Benjamin Becker, Suk-Yu Yau, Georg S Kranz
Sex differences have been claimed an imperative factor in the optimization of psychiatric treatments. Intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS), a patterned form of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, is a promising non-invasive treatment option. Here, we investigated whether the real-time neural response to iTBS differs between men and women, and which mechanisms may mediate these differences. To this end, we capitalized on a concurrent iTBS/functional near-infrared spectroscopy setup over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a common clinical target, to test our assumptions...
April 3, 2024: Asian Journal of Psychiatry