Self-directedness: An indicator for clinical response to the HF-rTMS treatment in refractory melancholic depression Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Although well-defined predictors of response are still unclear, clinicians refer a variety of depressed patients for a repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) treatment. It has been suggested that personality features such as Harm Avoidance (HA) and self-directedness (SD) might provide some guidance for a classical antidepressant treatment outcome. However, to date no such research has been performed in rTMS treatment paradigms. In ...