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Symposium title: Non-invasive brain stimulation in pediatric epilepsy: Diagnostic, biomarker, and therapeutic applications of TMS description: Many diagnostic approaches for epilepsy require invasive approaches. However, populations, non-invasive are preferred. Hence, centers have begun using the (NIBS) technique transcranial magnetic (TMS) functional, mapping eloquent cortex prior to surgery. ...

In India, post-stroke dysphagia affects between 37 and 78 percent of people. recent years, research into transcranial magnetic stimulation has enhanced our understanding the neurological aspects swallowing, thanks in great part to Hamdy colleagues' pioneering work. TMS been shown help with depressive symptoms, anxiety, parkinsonian however, there is no study on how it can swallowing. This case ...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an increasingly common technique used to selectively modify neural processing. However, application of TMS is limited by uncertainty concerning its physiological effects. We applied TMS to the cat visual cortex and evaluated the neural and hemodynamic consequences. Short TMS pulse trains elicited initial activation (approximately 1 minute) and prolonge...

Background: The purpose was to examine the effects of single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over primary motor cortex delivered at different times during a center-out reaching task in a robot reaching environment. Methods: Eleven right-handed subjects participated. Movement hotspots and thresholds were determined for each subject, and the stimulation intensity was set at 120% of ...

Background: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) allows noninvasive stimulation of neurons using timevarying magnetic fields. Researchers have begun combining TMS with functional imaging to simultaneously stimulate and image brain activity. Recently, the feasibility of interleaving TMS with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was demonstrated. This study tests this new method to det...

Abstract Background Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are almost universally delayed in the acquisition of spoken language as primary means communication so they tend to have restricted outcomes terms independence and integration. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a promising, emerging tool for study (study modulate excitability plasticity, applied single pulses investigate ...

PURPOSE To overcome current limitations in combined transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies by employing a dedicated coil array design for 3 Tesla. METHODS The state-of-the-art setup for concurrent TMS/fMRI is to use a large birdcage head coil, with the TMS between the subject's head and the MR coil. This setup has drawbacks in sensitiv...

Migraine is a very prevalent disease with great individual disability and socioeconomic burden. Despite intensive research effort in recent years, the etiopathogenesis of the disease remains to be elucidated. Recently, much importance has been given to mechanisms underlying the cortical excitability that has been suggested to be dysfunctional in migraine. In recent years, noninvasive brain stim...

There is compelling evidence that cortical excitability is modified in migraine patients between attacks. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive tool to investigate this abnormality. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) activates the underlying cortex at high, but inhibits it at low stimulation frequencies. This is a review of published results obtained in migr...