The Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia: Insights from EEG Microstates

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-1-2021

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of 10 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in patients with schizophrenia using EEG microstates. Thirty-eight patients with chronic schizophrenia were included in a double-blind, randomized and sham-controlled trial (19 participants in the active group and 19 participants in the sham group) and received 10 Hz active or sham rTMS stimulation to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (left DLPFC) 5 days per week over for 4 weeks. Four classical microstate classes (i.e., classes A, B, C and D) were identified by clustering, and the parameters (i.e., duration, occurrence and contribution) of each class were computed. Our results showed that (1) after stimulation, the positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) positive scores decreased significantly in the active group; (2) the duration of the microstate of class C derived from EEG data decreased significantly in the active group; and (3) the change of the duration of class D in the active group was significantly higher than that in the sham group. Our findings demonstrated that 10 Hz active rTMS stimulation was beneficial to improving the positive symptoms of patients with chronic schizophrenia, and the EEG microstate could be an effective indicator of symptom improvements.

Identifier

85102462354 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Psychiatry Research

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.113866

e-ISSN

18727123

ISSN

01651781

PubMed ID

33735740

Volume

299

Grant

2020KSYS001

Fund Ref

National Key Research and Development Program of China

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