Publications by authors named "G Fouldrin"
Background And Purpose: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been proposed to treat functional neurological disorders. Here, the aim was to assess the efficacy of rTMS to treat functional paralysis in a controlled randomized trial.
Methods: Patients received two sessions of active or sham 0.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the effectiveness of high-frequency (20 Hz) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for treating auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) in schizophrenia, using precise neuronavigation techniques for targeting.
- Out of 74 randomized patients, 59 were treated with either active rTMS or sham treatment, with results assessed over 4 weeks, specifically measuring changes in the Auditory Hallucinations Rating Scale (AHRS).
- Although the primary outcome showed no significant difference between treatment groups, secondary analysis indicated that a higher percentage of patients receiving active rTMS experienced a notable decrease in hallucination scores compared to the sham group, highlighting the potential for rTMS in
Until now there are few data in the literature describing psychiatric comorbidity in patients waiting for renal transplantation. We have conducted a cross sectional study estimating the prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders in three groups of renal transplant patients, before transplantation, six months and one year after. The MINI was used to estimate the prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe colour-word Emotional Stroop task (ES task) has been proposed to assess the interferences between emotion and attention. Using this task, first, we examined how attention (using reaction times) can be modified by emotionally relevant words in schizophrenics as compared with controls as a function of the emotional significance of the word; second, we tested the assumption that schizophrenics with the most negative symptoms will show higher impairment in relationship to negative emotional words. In general, schizophrenics were slower to react.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The main objective of the study was to determine whether patients with schizophrenia are deficient relative to controls in the processing of faces at different levels of familiarity and types of emotion and the stage where such differences may occur.
Methods: ERPs based on 18 patients with schizophrenia and 18 controls were compared in a face identification task at three levels of familiarity (unknown, familiar, subject's own) and for three types of emotion (disgust, smiling, neutral).
Results: The schizophrenic group was less accurate than controls in the face processing, especially for unknown faces and those expressing negative emotions such as disgust.