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Mapping Symptom-General and Symptom-Specific Targets for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Schizophrenia: An Electrical Modeling Meta-Analysis

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Title: Mapping Symptom-General and Symptom-Specific Targets for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Schizophrenia: An Electrical Modeling Meta-Analysis
Authors: Indrit Bègue, Lorina Sinanaj, Konstantinos Pallis, Anahita Fazel Dehkordi, Philippe Huguelet, Stefan Kaiser
Publisher Information: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025.
Publication Year: 2025
Description: Negative, positive, and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia relate to disruptions in partially distinct brain circuits. Although promising, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) strategies across and within symptom domains remain to be established due to TMS protocol heterogeneity. For this, we combined standard meta-analysis with electric field (E-field) modeling to identify stimulation sites where E-field strength associated most significantly with clinical improvement. Standard meta-analysis of randomized, sham-controlled studies in 3,806 patients demonstrated benefit of TMS across symptom domains, regardless of target or protocol. Particularly, TMS significantly improved negative and cognitive symptoms with high-frequency stimulation applied to left prefrontal cortex, whereas positive symptoms improved with low-frequency TMS applied to left temporoparietal cortex. In-depth examination of these results with E-field modeling identified stimulation to left dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (L-DMPFC), left orbitofrontal cortex (L-OFC), and left cerebellar crus II and right lobule IX to be significantly associated with improvement across all symptom domains. Especially, greater overlap of studies’ stimulation sites with L-DMPFC and L-OFC related to improved outcomes. For negative symptoms, E-field distribution in L-DMPFC and L-OFC related most significantly to clinical improvement. Specifically, greater proximity to L-DMPFC stimulation site indicated better outcomes, with at trend significance for L-OFC. In the cognitive domain, E-field distribution in frontopolar cortices and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex related to clinical improvement. Finally, strongest E-field association with clinical improvement was found in the right cerebellar lobules VIIIA, VIIIB, and IX for positive symptoms. These results support symptom-general and symptom-specific TMS approaches for distinct therapeutic goals towards personalized neuromodulation in schizophrenia.
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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-5565115/v1
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