Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a noninvasive and safe technique for motor cortex stimulation. TMS is used to treat neurological and psychiatric disorders, including mood and movement disorders. TMS can also treat several types of chronic neuropathic pain. The pain relief mechanism of cortical stimulation is caused by modifications in neuronal excitability. Depression is a common co-...

Simultaneously combining the complementary assets of EEG, functional MRI (fMRI), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) within one experimental session provides synergetic results, offering insights into brain function that go beyond the scope of each method when used in isolation. The steady increase of concurrent EEG-fMRI, TMS-EEG, and TMS-fMRI studies further underlines the added value ...

V. Kessler, P. Dechent, J. Baudewig 1 MR-Research in Neurology and Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany Introduction Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has developed into a widely used tool in neuroscience to study cortical excitability. However, its underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. The combination of TMS with functional magnetic resona...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) provides psychiatrists with a new treatment o!ering in clinical practice. Providing an o"ce-based procedure is new for psychiatrists, and incorporating this procedure into practice has brought new challenges. The clinical delivery of TMS has various possibilities for o"ce operations, management, and overall structure. Di!erent clinical models and provider...

Using MRI-guided off-line TMS, we targeted two areas implicated in biological motion processing: ventral premotor cortex (PMC) and posterior STS (pSTS), plus a control site (vertex). Participants performed a detection task on noise-masked point-light displays of human animations and scrambled versions of the same stimuli. Perceptual thresholds were determined individually. Performance was measu...

OBJECTIVE Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a well-established clinical protocol with numerous potential therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Yet, much work remains in the elucidation of TMS mechanisms, optimization of protocols, and in development of novel therapeutic applications. As with many technologies, the key to these issues lies in the proper experimentation and translatio...

OBJECTIVE Identify the optimal number of pulses necessary to achieve reliable measures of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies. METHODS Retrospective data was obtained from 54 healthy volunteers (30 men, mean age 61.7±13.1years) who as part of prior studies had completed three blocks of 30 consecutive TMS stimuli using neuronavigation. Data from fo...