Schizophrenia Research
Volume 100, Issue 1 , Pages 351-352 , March 2008

Successful use of maintenance rTMS for 8 months in a patient with antipsychotic-refractory auditory hallucinations

  • Jagadisha Thirthalli

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health And Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore-560029, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +91 8026995350; fax: +91 8026564830.
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  • Balaji Bharadwaj

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health And Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore-560029, India
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  • Sandip Kulkarni

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health And Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore-560029, India
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  • Saifuddin Kharawala

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychopharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health And Neurosciences, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560029, India
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  • Chittaranjan Andrade

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychopharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health And Neurosciences, Hosur Road, Bangalore-560029, India
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  • Bangalore N. Gangadhar

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health And Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore-560029, India

Received 29 September 2007 ,Revised 28 December 2007 ,Accepted 4 January 2008.

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PII: S0920-9964(08)00050-9

doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2008.01.003

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 100, Issue 1 , Pages 351-352 , March 2008

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