RATIONALE Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is used alone or in combination with physiotherapy for rehabilitation of stroke patients. TMS mapping can also quantify the excitability of the motor area in both the ipsilesional (IL) and contralateral (CL) hemisphere. OBJECTIVE This study is the first to measure the dynamics of cortical excitability by TMS mapping before and afte...

Multisensory interactions occur early in time and in low-level cortical areas, including primary cortices. To test current models of early auditory-visual (AV) convergence in unisensory visual brain areas, we studied the effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of visual cortex on behavioral responses to unisensory (auditory or visual) or multisensory (simultaneous auditory-visual) sti...

Only by understanding the ability to take a third-person perspective can we begin elucidate neural processes responsible for one’s inimitable conscious experience. The current study examined differences in hemispheric laterality during first-person (1PP) and (3PP) taking task, using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Participants were asked either 1PP or 3PP when identifying number of sph...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a neuromodulation technique that noninvasively depolarizes neurons in the brain. During TMS, pulse (or multiple pulses) of time-varying field (H) delivered to brain using specialized coils. The quadruple butterfly coil (QBC) novel design shows increased focality induced electric over standard figure-of-eight (FoE) coil. Using 50 different head models c...

Introduction Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is widely used to explore cortical physiology in health and disease. Surface electromyography (sEMG) appropriate for superficial muscles, but cannot be applied easily less accessible muscles. Muscle ultrasound (mUS) may provide an elegant solution this problem, fundamental questions remain. We the relationship between TMS evoked muscle potent...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has become a promising treatment of affective disorders in humans, yet the neuronal basis of its long-lasting effects in the brain is still unknown. We studied acute and lasting effects of TMS on reactivity of the rat hippocampus to stimulation of the perforant path. Application of TMS to the brain of the anesthetized rat caused a dose-dependent transient...

This paper reports two experiments using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to investigate whether word-level lexical stress involves the left superior temporal gyrus (STG) a grammar classification task designed elicit typicality effect. Experiment 1 used text presented stimuli and, although was not able effect, found response times were significantly slower in no TMS condition compared wh...

When we judge an action as morally right or wrong, we rely on our capacity to infer the actor's mental states (e.g., beliefs, intentions). Here, we test the hypothesis that the right temporoparietal junction (RTPJ), an area involved in mental state reasoning, is necessary for making moral judgments. In two experiments, we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to disrupt neural activity i...

Abstract The use of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) on the motor system is growing fast. However, it as attractive full controversies due to variety reported effects. It may now be possible orchestrate brain oscillatory activity by stimulating trough external periodic electrical forces. mere advantage having specific frequency effects functions, has been obscured reasonable ...

M irror neuron-driven embodied simulation, based on the neural exploitation hypothesis has been proposed as a physiological basis of social cognitive abilities in humans (1). Experimental evidence points to a relationship between social cognition and putative mirror neuron activity in neuropsychiatric disorders like schizophrenia (2) and autism (3). Experiments to explore strategies to modulate...