Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Older Inpatients with Depression: A Real-World Comparison of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Depressive Symptoms and Functional Recovery.

Biomedicines · 2026 · PMC13024117 · PMID 41898296

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Longer episode duration was associated with a small borderline significant reduction in treatment effectiveness (β = 0.24, p = 0.05), irrespective of treatment protocol (episode duration × Treatment: β = −0.23, p = 0.31); no difference was observed between patients with MDD vs.

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.08so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Regarding remission, the estimated odds ratio for treatment was in the expected direction (OR = 2.23, 95% CI 0.88–6.19), although the association did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.08).

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