Caution When Continuing Benzodiazepines During rTMS: Response to Hunter and Leuchter

Tyler S Kaster¹, Jonathan Downar¹, Fidel Vila-Rodriguez¹+2

• ¹Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto (Kaster, Daskalakis, Blumberger); Department of Psychiatry (Kaster, Downar, Daskalakis, Blumberger), and Institute of Medical Science (Downar, Daskalakis, Blumberger), University of Toronto, Toronto; MRI-Guided rTMS Clinic, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto (Downar); Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto (Downar); Department of Psychiatry and Non-Invasive Neurostimulation Therapies Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Vila-Rodriguez).