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Table 4.

NIBS (rTMS and tDCS) for AN patients. This table illustrates seven cases of tDCS and 65 cases of rTMS DBS for AN.

Study	Modality	Indication	Target	Stimulation parameters	Stimulation timing	Number of patients	Age	Outcome	Follow up (effect duration)	Comorbidities
Kamolz and colleagues¹⁵⁴	rTMS	AN	L dlPFC	10 Hz, 2000 pulses	41 sessions	1	24	BMI increase from 12.4 to 16 (29%)	3 months (effect observed at last follow up)	Depression
Van den Eynde and colleagues¹⁵⁵	rTMS	AN	L dlPFC	10 Hz, 1000 pulses	Single session	10	18–44	Reduced perception of feeling fat, full, anxious	None (unknown effect duration)	Not specified
Khedr and colleagues¹⁵⁶	tDCS	AN	L dlPFC	2 mA, anodal	10 25-min sessions over 10 days	7	16–39	Improved AN and depression symptoms in 5 patients immediately post-treatment, in 3 patients at 1 month post-treatment	1 month (effect observed at last follow up)	Depression, anxiety
McClelland and colleagues¹⁵⁸	rTMS	AN	L dlPFC	10 Hz, 1000 pulses	20 20-min sessions	5	23–52	Improved eating disorder, affective symptoms; weight loss in all participants	12 months (effect observed at last follow up)	Not specified
McClelland and colleagues¹⁵⁷	rTMS	AN	L dlPFC	10 Hz, 1000 pulses	Single 20-min session	49	~26±7.5	Improved AN core symptoms and temporal discounting	24 h (effect observed at last follow up)	Depression, anxiety

AN, anorexia nervosa; Bl, bilateral; dlPFC, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; dmPFC, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex; L, left; rTMS, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; R, right; tDCS, transcranial direct current stimulation.