Abstract
A Commentary on Gender Does Not Matter: Add-on Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment for Female Methamphetamine Dependents.
Highlights
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation is a non-invasive brain neuromodulation approach, which has demonstrated clinical efficacy for major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, stroke, and substance use disorders (Mantovani et al, 2006; O’Reardon et al, 2007; Ludemann-Podubecka et al, 2015; Shen et al, 2016)
The results indicated that females showed higher Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) induced motor evoked potential (MEP) in the late menstrual cycle, which is consistent with the study by Smith and his colleagues (Smith et al, 1999, 2002)
Two pilot studies for cocaine dependents included two females in 18 subjects and one female in 18 subjects (Bolloni et al, 2016; Martinez et al, 2018), respectively. This defect was solved in a recent study, which reported rTMS suppresses craving in a group of female methamphetamine dependents (Liu et al, 2018)
Summary
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a non-invasive brain neuromodulation approach, which has demonstrated clinical efficacy for major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, stroke, and substance use disorders (Mantovani et al, 2006; O’Reardon et al, 2007; Ludemann-Podubecka et al, 2015; Shen et al, 2016). Magnetic Stimulation Treatment for Female Methamphetamine Dependents. One important neural mechanism underlying these efficacy was the cortical plasticity induced from the rTMS stimulation.
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