A Relation Between Craving Induction and Treatment Response in Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (dTMS) for Reducing Antipsychotic-induced Weight Gain in Schizophrenia

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Antipsychotic-induced metabolic disturbances, especially weight gain, are common in patients with schizophrenia. Furthermore, it is reported significant changes in food intake happened in patients with weight gain after intaking antipsychotics. There are no hitherto effective treatments for reducing antipsychotic-induced weight gain. dTMS which is a safe and non-invasive physical treatment indicates greater efficacy than other transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) by some research. Apart from that, symptom provocation is believed to improve the clinical responses to TMS. In this study, the investigators, firstly, evaluate the safety and effectiveness of dTMS for reducing antipsychotic-induced weight gain and secondly, unveil whether symptom provocation can affect the clinical responses to TMS.