Up to now, 24 patients with major depression and 6 normal controls are enrolled. Twenty-three patients and 4 normal participants have taken 10 days rTMS. One patients and one control withdrew their consent without any reason and one control withdrew the consent because of headache.
We scanned fMRIs(to examine functional connectivity)twice for each participant, which were taken 3 days before the first and 3 days after the last rTMS.
All of participants have not reported side effects except mild headahe. There's been no seizure event up to now.