Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies

This paper identifies optimal brain stimulation strategies by mapping how responses vary with target location and brain state, reducing trial-to-trial variability.

SO-tDCS during restricted sleep improves cognitive performance and memory retention during subsequent wakefulness compared to sham stimulation.

The paper develops methods to optimize TMS coil sequences for motor mapping by reducing redundancy and improving efficiency in robotic TMS platforms.

This study investigates whether contralateral thermal heat pain affects corticospinal and intracortical excitability, finding no reduction and instead increased corticospinal excitability, with perceived effort linked to pain experience rather than neural inhibition.

The paper analyzes TMS-evoked potentials (TEPs) from different cortical regions to characterize their temporal features and relates them to network properties.

This study shows that 1 Hz rTMS can have excitatory or no aftereffects depending on current direction, with low reliability and significant individual variability.

The paper develops a population model of motor evoked potentials from TMS to enable in-silico testing and tuning of closed-loop procedures without experimental data.

This study characterizes an fMRI-based SRTT protocol and identifies consistent neural signatures for motor sequence learning, providing targets for tDCS interventions.

This study uses a neuroinspired model to investigate how tACS and tDCS affect neural activity in healthy and epileptic brain states, showing frequency entrainment in healthy networks and reduced hyperexcitability in epileptic networks.

This study compares the effects of tDCS and tACS on gamma oscillations in macaque V1, finding lasting changes in power and connectivity.

This study shows that non-invasive brain stimulation during sleep increases slow oscillations and links these changes to altered Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in plasma.

This study examines how intravenous midazolam affects short-interval paired-pulse TMS responses in younger and older adults, revealing age-related differences in corticospinal excitability and paired-pulse inhibition.

This paper shows that LTP-patterned electromagnetic stimulation induces NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity in cortical networks by altering network dynamics and promoting synaptogenesis.

This study examines how different intensities of anodal tDCS affect motor sequence learning in young and older adults, finding age-dependent and non-linear dose effects.

This paper benchmarks seven tTIS optimization methods across 250 brain targets to provide evidence-based recommendations for selecting the best method based on target location, tissue type, and computation time.

The paper uses histological data and computational models to identify myelinated axon bends as potential targets for TMS, showing they have physiologically realistic activation thresholds.

This study shows that observing virtual objects during motor imagery increases corticospinal excitability more than motor imagery alone, with immersive environments enhancing this effect.

This paper introduces an adaptive Bayesian method for localizing motor representation areas using TMS, reducing the number of stimuli needed for accurate localization.

This study shows that thalamic temporal interference stimulation with a 5Hz envelope increases sleep spindle density through subthreshold resonance in thalamocortical relay neurons.

The paper uses EEG data from TMS-treated patients to show that changes in anterior default mode brain state dynamics predict depressive symptom improvement during treatment.

This study shows that prefrontal theta-tACS modulates working memory reaction times in a phase-dependent manner, even when overall behavioral effects are not significant.

This study investigates how pre-stimulus mu rhythm dynamics affect the consistency of corticospinal responses to TMS, finding that mu power and functional connectivity reduce MEP variability.

This study shows that repeated rTMS induces microglia-dependent synaptic remodeling in pyramidal neurons, reducing synaptic strength and spine density.

This study uses HDsEMG to show that corticospinal transmission during rTMS is bandpass-like, with strongest transmission between 20-50 Hz and frequency-specific synaptic input increases.

The paper investigates EEG changes during magnetophosphene perception induced by 20 Hz magnetic field stimulation and finds broadband high-frequency EEG activity associated with suprathreshold stimulation.

This paper develops an EEG-guided robotic TMS system that controls both pulse timing and location in real time, improving closed-loop neurostimulation for research and clinical applications.

This paper compares the functional and biophysical efficacy of MNI-guided and T1-guided TMS protocols, finding they yield comparable outcomes despite differences in anatomical precision.

The paper develops an automatic pipeline to measure scalp-to-region distances (SRD) in brain diseases and identifies distinct SRD alteration patterns in autism spectrum disorder, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease.

The paper identifies and mitigates a step-drift artifact in TMS-EEG recordings through a processing pipeline involving polynomial detrending and modified filtering.

This study investigates how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) activates Purkinje cells and climbing fibers in turtle cerebellum, showing direct and synaptic activation mechanisms within the first 1.2 ms.