Promising results in adult neurologic and psychiatric disorders are driving active research into transcranial brain stimulation techniques, particularly transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), in childhood and adolescent syndromes. TMS has realistic utility as an experimental tool tested in a range of pediatric neuropathologies such as perinat...

Rubens MT, Zanto TP. Parameterization of transcranial magnetic stimulation. J Neurophysiol 107: 1257–1259, 2012. First published November 9, 2011; doi:10.1152/jn.00716.2011.—A recent study (Di Lazzaro et al. J Neurophysiol 105: 2150–2156, 2011) describes the findings from a rigorous comparison on the effects of several popular variations of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) protocols. The...

Ø Goal: Investigation of the underlying biophysical effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). ØThe biophysics of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is not yet well understood. We characterize in detail the electric field induced in gray (GM) and white matter (WM), using a geometrically accurate model of an individual head combined with high-resolution diffusion weighted imaging (...

Abstract Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive brain method for researching the functionality and clinical use. In general TMS procedure, motor threshold (MT) intensity optimal coil location ("hotspot") are searched manually. This is, however, time-consuming as several stimulations required to measure MT ensure that will be optimally positioned stimulating cortical target lo...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a safe and noninvasive tool for investigating the cortical excitability of human brain neurophysiological functions GABAergic, glutamatergic, cholinergic neural circuits. Neurophysiological biomarkers based on TMS parameters can provide information pathophysiology dementia, be used to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease differentiate different types dementi...

objectives: stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability. hand motor impairment resulting from chronic stroke may have extensive physical, psychological, financial, and social implications despite available rehabilitative treatments. the best time to start treatment for stroke, is in sub-acute period. repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) is a method of stimulating and augme...

Background: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a method of non-invasive and painless brain with an electromagnetic field, which induces changes in the electric field leading to cortical activity modulation neurons. Currently, transcranial increasingly used diagnosis treatment various neuropsychiatric conditions, such as depression, schizophrenia, neurodegenerative diseases, more. TMS ca...

background: motor function impairment occurs in approximately two-thirds of patients with subcortical stroke. repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) is a noninvasive technique for modulating cortical excitability. objectives: the present study was designed for assessing the efficacy of high-frequency rtms (5 hz) on ipsilesional primary motor cortex in patients with subcortical stro...