With the increasing use of rTMS as a treatment for MDD, there is a need to better characterize its effects on suicidality. Participants with high baseline levels of suicidality may require more intensive or different forms of treatment. However, the potential for rTMS to provide relief to those patients with suicidality needs to be better understood.
Our analysis found a significantly higher decrease in total HDRS-16 score in suicidality remitters than in non-remitters. While a correlation between change in overall depression score and suicidality score has been reported in previous analyses,10,39-42 our analysis emphasizes the importance of assessing and analysing suicidality as a separate outcome in treatment studies of MDD.
Effect of high frequency versus theta-burst repetitive
Shobha Mehta, Jonathan Downar, Benoit H. Mulsant, Daphne Voineskos, Zafiris J. Daskalakis, Cory R. Weissman, Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, Daniel M. Blumberger,
