Effect of Low-Frequency rTMS on Electromagnetic Tomography (LORETA) and Regional Brain Metabolism (PET) in Schizophrenia Patients with Auditory Hallucinations

Abstract

Our findings implicate that the effect is connected with decreased metabolism in the cortex underlying the rTMS site, while facilitation of metabolism is propagated by transcallosal and intrahemispheric connections. The LORETA indicates that the neuroplastic changes affect the functional laterality and provide the substrate for a metabolic effect.