The objectives of this work were: (i) to evaluate the relevance for clinical studies of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) investigations on rats, (ii) to investigate the occurrence of DNA damage in rat brain cells following rTMS under conditions similar to those used in clinical treatment of depression.
University of Bordeaux 1, IMS Laboratory-Bioelectromagnetics group, ENSCPB/EPHE, 16 Pey Berland Avenue, 33607 Pessac Cedex, France. renaud.charlet@ims-bordeaux.fr