Modulating Emotion Perception: Opposing Effects of Inhibitory and Excitatory Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation

These results support the hypothesis that excitatory rTMS compared with inhibitory rTMS of the right dlPFC strengthens top-down control of aversive stimuli in healthy control subjects, which should encourage more research on mechanisms of excitatory/inhibitory dlPFC-rTMS protocols in general and on neuromodulatory treatment of MDD.