Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies

This study evaluates the neurophysiological effects of intracranial theta burst stimulation in the human sensorimotor cortex and finds increased beta band synchronization indicative of neuroplasticity.

This paper reviews rTMS studies from 1991 to 2020, finding most use motor threshold intensity and lack sufficient detail to reproduce stimulation parameters.

This paper investigates how brain lesions affect tDCS-induced electric field magnitude and shows that lesion characteristics can alter e-mag by over 30%.

This study investigates how different frequencies of rTMS over the anterior temporal lobe affect semantic performance, finding that 20Hz enhances and 1Hz impairs semantic tasks.

This study investigates the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in motor sequence learning using HD-tDCS, finding that both anodal and cathodal stimulation impede skill acquisition.

This study shows that transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) acutely lowers the resting motor threshold in human primary motor cortex, indicating increased neural responsiveness.

This paper identifies lower dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as key for tDCS-induced working memory improvement using a novel meta-analytic method correlating electric field strength with performance.

The paper shows that 1 Hz rTMS to the left DLPFC improves verbal memory performance compared to vertex stimulation, with associated changes in beta power modulation.

This study uses tDCS to investigate cerebellar involvement in optic flow perception, finding that anodal stimulation improves left-right motion discrimination.

This study examines how theta burst stimulation of the dlPFC and dmPFC affects food choice and neural activity, finding gender-specific effects on consumption.

This study investigates the relationship between TEPs and conditioned-MEPs to determine if they reflect the same cortical response following TMS.

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 shows that tDCS to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex increases reward learning rates in healthy adults, suggesting potential for treating mood disorders.

This study finds that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) does not improve performance in a whole-body movement task and may even impair it, depending on the stimulation site and task complexity.

This study applies tDCS to right PPC and FEF to examine its effects on saccadic reaction times and attentional orienting in a gap-overlap task, finding bilateral improvements but no effect on the gap effect.

This study analyzes interindividual variability in single and paired-pulse TMS data across 35 studies, identifying factors that predict TMS responses and proposing standardization recommendations.

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.

This study uses dual-coil TMS to map effective connectivity between frontal cortex regions and contralateral M1, identifying task-specific functional subdivisions.

This study uses Hidden Markov Models to analyze tACS-MEG data and finds that only one of four brain states is susceptible to tACS effects.

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 investigates the relationship between corticospinal excitability and post-stroke fatigue, finding that left hemisphere lesions show a significant interaction with excitability in predicting fatigue severity.