Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies

This study investigates how high-definition tDCS applied to the cerebellum or prefrontal cortex affects cognitive and motor tasks, finding load-specific effects and cerebellar involvement in verbal working memory and sequence learning.

The paper compares conventional electrodes and ultrasound monitoring for measuring TMS-evoked muscle contraction, finding a strong correlation between EMG and ultrasound measures in accessible and inaccessible muscles.

The paper investigates the cortical origins of TMS-evoked potentials (TEPs) using TMS and EEG, finding that early TEP components reflect cortical reactivity to TMS.

This study investigates how different interstimulus intervals in iTMS affect motor cortex plasticity and finds that facilitation varies with ISI and stimulation direction, with baseline SICF predicting iTMS response.

This study investigates how different intensities and doses of neuromuscular electrical stimulation affect sensorimotor cortical excitability using EEG in healthy participants.

This study investigates whether prefrontal tDCS affects dopamine-related behaviors and physiology, finding no significant effects but suggesting individual differences may influence responses.

This study applies anodal tDCS to the visual cortex of patients with central vision loss to reduce collinear inhibition, showing a temporary reduction in crowding.

This study investigates the effects of transcranial bipolar DC stimulation on ketamine-induced oscillopathies in sedated rats, finding significant reductions in oscillation disturbances.

The paper investigates changes in intracortical inhibition during action preparation in task-irrelevant muscles using TMS and EMG, finding a transient release of inhibition.

This study shows that electrical stimulation of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex improves cross-cultural mind-reading in individuals with less exposure to Caucasians.

This paper replicates a tDCS memory enhancement study using machine learning, finding no significant effects and highlighting individual differences as key factors.

This study shows that higher post-stroke fatigue is associated with reduced corticospinal excitability suppression and increased facilitation during movement preparation, leading to slower reaction times.

This study evaluates the effectiveness of combining cognitive training with tDCS in stroke survivors, finding significant training effects but no additional benefit from tDCS, and no strong link between pre-training brain activation and cognitive gains.

This study investigates whether genetic polymorphisms influence inter-individual variability in response to cathodal tDCS, finding no significant genetic associations.

This study shows temporal interference stimulation selectively targets deep brain regions by modulating neural oscillations through network adaptation and membrane time-constants.

This study investigates whether predictive coding affects neural responses to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) by comparing MEP amplitudes under predictable and unpredictable conditions.

This study evaluates whether the end-of-study guess is a valid measure of sham blinding in tDCS by comparing sensitivity during active and sham protocols at different current intensities.

This study examines how tDCS affects brain networks during creative thinking and its impact on creative performance.

This study develops individual head models for rats using X-ray tomography to estimate TMS-induced electric fields and shows that head shape deviations significantly affect E-field distribution.

This study shows that rTMS and the EPG gene improve mobility, reduce anxiety, and enhance neuroplasticity after nerve injury in rats.

This study examines if genetic polymorphisms predict variability in response to anodal tDCS in the primary motor cortex, finding an association between GABRA3 polymorphisms and tDCS response.

This study tests whether tACS directly or indirectly affects neural activity by blocking somatosensory input, finding that neural entrainment occurs even when somatosensory pathways are blocked.

This study investigates the effects of multi-day rTMS on functional connectivity and associative memory, finding no long-term memory improvement but site-specific short-term connectivity changes.

This study shows that cTBS increases neuroinflammation and inhibits neurogenesis after pneumococcal meningitis in rats.

This study shows that cerebellar tDCS enhances motor learning by altering putamen-cerebellar connectivity, as revealed through simultaneous tDCS-fMRI.

This study investigates how short-time intermittent tACS affects alpha-band oscillations, finding phase-independent suppression in specific brain regions and highlighting inter-individual differences in response.

The paper quantifies cortical depth variability across the brain surface using MRI data and finds high variability even in primary visual and motor areas, suggesting poor reliability for TMS dose-setting based on standard regions.

This study shows that transcranial alternating current stimulation (TACS) modulates spike timing in awake nonhuman primates in a dose-dependent manner, with higher intensities increasing neuronal entrainment.

This study examines the effect of 20 Hz tACS on motor memory consolidation at critical post-training time points and finds no significant impact on performance.