TY - JOUR A2 - Kluge, M. A2 - Anghelescu, I. G. A2 - Brar, J. S. A2 - Oyebode, F. AU - Marras, Anna AU - Pallanti, Stefano PY - 2013 DA - 2013/10/02 TI - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Pharmacoresistant Nondelusional Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Dementia SP - 930304 VL - 2013 AB - Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are known as a core symptom of schizophrenia, but also occur in a number of other conditions, not least in neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia. In the last decades, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) emerged as a valuable therapeutic approach towards several neurological and psychiatric diseases, including AVHs. Herein we report a case of a seventy-six-years-old woman with vascular-degenerative brain disease, complaining of threatening AVHs. The patient was treated with a high-frequency temporoparietal (T3P3) rTMS protocol for fifteen days. A considerable reduction of AVHs in frequency and content (no more threatening) was observed. Although further research is needed, this seems an encouraging result. SN - 2090-682X UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/930304 DO - 10.1155/2013/930304 JF - Case Reports in Psychiatry PB - Hindawi Publishing Corporation KW - ER -