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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 4 BDI and PASAT scores before and after receiving rTMS and SSRIs

From: Fractional anisotropy measurements of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for therapeutic response assessment after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis patients suffering from depression

  

At baseline

6 weeks after treatment

P value

  

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

 

rTMS group

BDI

17.6 ± 3.25

10.6 ± 1.89

< 0.001*

PASAT

23 ± 6.36

24.87 ± 6.6

0.002*

SSRI group

BDI

17.6 ± 3.1

10.6 ± 1.84

< 0.001*

PASAT

23.8 ± 6.4

25.07 ± 7.02

< 0.001*

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