Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies

This study uses RSA and ERS analyses to show that 5Hz rTMS enhances memory representations in the PFC and MTL compared to 1Hz.

The paper identifies distributed brain structural patterns that predict motor cortical excitability and inhibition in healthy volunteers.

This study shows that TMS-based motor mapping results vary depending on the direction of the induced current, with lateral-to-medial currents aligning better with fMRI motor areas.

This study shows that chronic electrical stimulation enhances excitability and plasticity in ESC-derived neurons after glutamate-induced inhibition.

The paper introduces a community-driven open database to consolidate tDCS study parameters and support research and clinical applications.

This paper evaluates offline coil position denoising to improve detection of TMS effects by reducing variability from neuronavigated coil deviations.

This study shows that non-linearities in stimulation and recording hardware create spurious low-frequency artifacts during AM-tACS, which can be mistaken for true neural effects.

This study examines how varying intervals between intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) blocks affects cortical plasticity, finding that longer intervals increase excitatory facilitation but with significant individual variability.

This study shows that individual differences in electric fields during TDCS of the motor cortex correlate with variability in excitability changes, suggesting personalized dosimetry could improve TDCS outcomes.

This paper examines how baseline performance and brain state manipulations like priming influence the behavioral effects of TMS, finding that performance level determines whether TMS facilitates or impairs behavior.

This study evaluates non-invasive brain stimulation for depression, finding high-frequency rTMS over the left DLPFC is most effective, with tDCS showing potential for non-resistant depression.

The paper investigates how weak alternating electric fields affect the subthreshold response of cortical pyramidal neurons, finding frequency resonance in apical dendrites due to morphology and h-type channels.

This study uses tACS-MEG to show that tACS enhances pre-existing alpha band power modulations during a mental rotation task without counteracting intrinsic oscillations.

This study shows that different TMS pulse waveforms and coil orientations activate distinct neural populations in the premotor cortex, as evidenced by variations in TEP components.

This paper reviews TMS paradigms and develops biophysically-based models to understand how LTP/LTD modulate population-level neuronal activity in response to TMS.

This paper investigates how ongoing brain rhythms affect TMS-induced I-wave properties in a computational model, finding that phase and power of rhythms significantly influence responses.

This study investigates whether 5Hz rTMS over the left DLPFC improves working memory manipulation accuracy, finding no significant overall effect but a negative correlation between fMRI activity and behavioral improvement in the hardest condition.

This meta-analysis evaluates the effectiveness of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques on language production in healthy individuals, finding a small but reliable effect with TMS showing larger effects than tDCS.

This study investigates how tACS effects are mediated by functional network changes, showing state-dependent long-range effects in the posterior cingulate.

This study maps scalp locations affected by TMS-induced annoyance, pain, and muscle twitches, showing their impact on reaction times and providing a resource for selecting control sites.

This study investigates whether 10-Hz cathodal oscillating transcranial current stimulation (otCS) modulates target detection, but finds no significant effect on visual perception.

This study investigates the causal effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on striatal processing of motivation, cognition, and action by targeting different frontal brain regions.

This study shows that transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) applied in sync with speech envelopes improves speech comprehension in noise.

The paper identifies neurochemical and computational factors explaining individual differences in sensorimotor memory formation using neuroimaging and transcranial stimulation.

This study examines the effect of tDCS dosage on working memory and finds no significant performance differences but notes neurophysiological changes in P3 amplitude.

This study investigates the effects of different iTBS intensities on cortical properties and working memory in healthy participants, finding an inverse U-shape relationship between intensity and neurophysiological effects.

This study shows that stimulating the prefrontal cortex reduces amygdala threat reactivity in individuals with high trait anxiety.

This study shows that tDCS modulates cortico-spinal excitability differently based on the orientation of current flow relative to cortical columns and TMS coil orientation.

The paper introduces a coil spacer to reduce signal disturbances in combined TMS-EEG recordings by separating the TMS coil from EEG electrodes.

This paper introduces a TMS-EEG technique to measure individual differences in perception by tracking resting-state gamma-band effective connectivity during a bistable stimulus task.