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| Title |
Unanticipated Rapid Remission of Refractory Bulimia Nervosa, during High-Dose Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex: A Case Report
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychiatry, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00030 |
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| Authors |
Jonathan Downar, Ashwin Sankar, Peter Giacobbe, Blake Woodside, Patricia Colton |
| Abstract |
A woman with severe, refractory bulimia nervosa (BN) underwent treatment for comorbid depression using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) using a novel technique. Unexpectedly, she showed a rapid, dramatic remission from BN. For 5 months pre-treatment, she had reported two 5-h binge-purge episodes per day. After rTMS session 2 the episodes stopped entirely for 1 week; after session 10 there were no further recurrences. Depression scores improved more gradually to remission at session 10. Full remission from depression and binge-eating/purging episodes was sustained more than 2 months after treatment completion. In neuroimaging studies, the DMPFC is important in impulse control, and is underactive in BN. DMPFC-rTMS may have enhanced the patient's ability to deploy previously acquired strategies to avoid binge-eating and purging via a reduction in her impulsivity. A larger sham-controlled trial of DMPFC-rTMS for binge-eating and purging behavior may be warranted. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| India | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
| Scientists | 1 | 50% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 123 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 21 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 19 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 30 | 24% |
| Unknown | 16 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 25 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 22 | 18% |
| Neuroscience | 21 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 9% |
| Unspecified | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 10 | 8% |
| Unknown | 30 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 December 2015.
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