introduction: transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) is a useful tool for assessment of corticospinal excitability (cse) changes in both healthy individuals and patients with brain disorders. the usefulness of tms-elicited motor evoked potentials (meps) for the assessment of cse in a clinical context depends on their intra-and inter-session reliability. this study aimed to evaluate if removal ...

Njemanze, P.C. Asymmetry of cerebral blood flow velocity response to color processing and hemodynamic changes during -6 degrees 24-hour head-down bed rest in men. J. Grav. Physiol. 12(2):??-??, 2005. Color stimulation may evoke significant cerebral responses that may be altered by head-down bed rest (HDR). Eight men were examined in supine horizontal position, with 30 deg head-up (Pre-HDR), and...

OBJECTIVE Preliminary studies have indicated that daily left prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation might have antidepressant activity. The authors sought to confirm this finding by using a double-blind crossover design. METHOD Twelve depressed adults received in random order 2 weeks of active treatment (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, 20 Hz at 80% motor thresho...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation has gained increasing visibility as an evaluative and interventional tool during the past 15 years. Within the context of rehabilitation, transcranial magnetic stimulation has been applied to differentiate excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms and to assess cortical reorganization following specific interventions. This article reviews some of the more salient fe...

Abstract Objective. Large structural brain changes, such as chronic stroke lesions, alter the current pathways throughout patients’ head and therefore have to be taken into account when performing transcranial direct stimulation simulations. Approach. We implement, test distribute first MATLAB pipeline that automatically generates realistic individualized volume conduction models of patients, b...

Recent advances of transcranial magnetic stimulation can provide new methods to elucidate the mechanism of higher brain function or cortical plasticity. For example, transcranial magnetic stimulation can produce transient disruption of the visual perception or modulation of cortical functions. Probably, the induced eddy current in the brain disturbs the information processing from external sign...

BACKGROUND Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation method: a magnetic field pulse from a TMS coil can excite neurons in a desired location of the cortex. Conventional TMS coils cause focal stimulation underneath the coil centre; to change the location of the stimulated spot, the coil must be moved over the new target. This physical movement is inherently slow...