Assessing the impact of sex on high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation´s clinical response in schizophrenia - results from a secondary analysis.
Mattia CampanaThomas Schneider-AxmannThomas WobrockBerend MalchowBerthold LangguthMichael LandgrebePeter EichhammerElmar FrankJoachim CordesWolfgang WölwerWolfgang GaebelGeorg WintererGöran HajakChristian OhmannPablo E VerdeMarcella RietschelRaees AhmedMatin MortazaviWolfgang StrubePeter FalkaiAlkomiet HasanElias WagnerPublished in: The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (2024)
In the largest rTMS trial on the treatment of SCZ negative symptoms we did not observe any significant effect of sex on treatment outcomes. Better assessments of sex-related differences could improve treatment individualisation.