“…rTMS therefore may represent a more promising treatment strategy for those patients suffering from concomitant cognitive dysfunction in MDD. Our finding of modest improvement in cognitive control tasks is consistent with previous studies that found improvement of executive function following rTMS treatment (Moser et al, 2002;Noda, Zomorrodi, Backhouse, et al, 2017;Noda, Zomorrodi, Saeki, et al, 2017), along with improvement in other domains including verbal memory (Kuroda et al, 2006;Fitzgerald et al, 2009;Wajdik et al, 2014) and attention (Höppner et al, 2003;O'Connor et al, 2005;Naim-Feil et al, 2016).…”