Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 86, Issue 1 , Pages 91-94 , 5 January 2007

One session of high frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the right prefrontal cortex transiently reduces cocaine craving

  • Joan Albert Camprodon

      Affiliations

    • Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, KS 452, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    • ,
  • José Martínez-Raga

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Drogas y Conductas Adictivas (IDYCA), Universidad Cardenal Herrera–CEU, Unidad de Conductas Adictivas Area 11, Agencia Valenciana de Salud, Spain
    • ,
  • Miguel Alonso-Alonso

      Affiliations

    • Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, KS 452, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    • ,
  • Mei-Chiung Shih

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health and Clinical Research Program, Children's Hospital Boston, 333 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    • ,
  • Alvaro Pascual-Leone

      Affiliations

    • Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, KS 452, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 667 0203; fax: +1 617 975 5322.

Received 26 March 2006 ,Revised 2 June 2006 ,Accepted 7 June 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2006.06.002

Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Volume 86, Issue 1 , Pages 91-94 , 5 January 2007

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