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Transcranial magnetic stimulation for central pain

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation recently has emerged as a therapeutic tool in neurology and psychiatry, with contradictory results. Central pain, a major chronic pain syndrome affecting millions of people worldwide, has been the focus of a few studies. Although transcranial magnetic stimulation has no role in the chronic management of such pain, it has potential as a screening procedure for the much more effective extradural cortical stimulation, a minimally invasive neurosurgical procedure that has emerged as the technique of choice in treating these patients.

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  1. Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, Via Morazzone 21, 10132, Torino, Italy

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Canavero, S., Bonicalzi, V. Transcranial magnetic stimulation for central pain. Current Science Inc 9, 87–89 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-005-0043-2

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