Title:Emergence of Sexual Dreams and Emission Following Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation over the Medial Prefrontal and Cingulate Cortices
Volume: 20
Issue: 4
Author(s): Ying Shen, Xinyu Cao, Ning-Ning Zeng, Yingjie Wang, Hangbin Zhang, Abraham Zangen and Ti-Fei Yuan*
Affiliation:
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai,China
Abstract: In a pilot study involving methamphetamine dependents receiving deep Transcranial
Magnetic Stimulation (dTMS) targeting the medial prefrontal and cingulate cortices with H7 coil
(Brainsway, Israel), we assessed clinical outcomes from patients receiving 20 sessions of dTMS
treatments over 4 weeks (5 days on, 2 days off). Although the primary outcome was the behavioral
changes related to addiction, we encountered a phenomenon of robust increases in sexual dreams
and emission in a patient recruited for this study, which may inform alterations in cortical excitability
following dTMS treatment.
