Table 7: Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Treatment Trials of LDLPFC rTMS^*.

Study	Effect Size Hedges’d	Non-Parametric Variance	Total N	Frequency in Hz	Days of Treatment	Total Daily Stimulation	Percent Motor Threshold
George et al. 199715	1.3691	0.3429	12	20	10	800	80%
Avery et al. 199616	0.7644	0.7500	6	10	10	1000	80%
Kimbrell et al. 199717	0.3188	0.2000	13	1/20	10	800/800	80%
Loo et al. 19996	–0.1797	0.2222	18	10	10	1500	110%
Padberg et al. 199918	0.4440	0.2500	18	0.3/10	5	250/250	90%
Berman et al. 200019	1.0504	0.2000	20	20	10	800	80%
Eschweiler et al. 200020	0.2.68	0.3429	12	10	10	2000	90%
Garcia-Toro et al. 200121	1.0783	0.1144	35	20	10	2000	90%
Garcia-Toro et al. 200122	0.1364	0.1818	22	20	10	1200	90%
George et al. 200023	0.6539	0.1500	30	5/20	10	1600/1600	100%
Lisanby et al. 20017	0.2841	0.1683	24	10	10	1600	110%
Manes et al. 200024	0.3003	0.2000	20	20	5	800	80%

^*LDLPFC represents left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; rTMS, repetitive transcranial stimulation. From: Kozel and George (8)