how to cite this article: noohi s, amirsalari s. history, studies and specific uses of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) in treating epilepsy. iran j child neurol. winter 2016; 10(1):1-8.   abstract objective in this study, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) and its specific use for treating epilepsy were carefully scrutinized.   materials & methods target res...

transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) has been applied to a growing number of psychiatric disorders as a neurophysiological probe, a primary brain-mapping tool and a candidate treatment. although most investigations have focused on the treatment of major depression, increasing attention has been paid to anxiety disorders. the aim of this study is to long time (for 30 days) effect of repetitiv...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of increasing the number of fast left repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulations (rTMS) (10 Hz @ 120% of motor threshold (MT) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC)) needed to achieve remission in treatment-resistant depression (TRD). And, to determine if patients who do not remit to fast left will remit using slow right rTMS (1 Hz @ 120% MT ove...

Electric brain stimulations such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS), and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) electrophysiologically modulate brain activity and as a result sometimes modulate behavioral performances. These stimulations can be viewed from an engineering standpoint as involving an artificial electric sour...

The common aim of transcranial stimulation methods is the induction or alterations of cortical excitability in a controlled way. Significant effects of each individual stimulation method have been published; however, conclusive direct comparisons of many of these methods are rare. The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of three widely applied stimulation methods inducing excit...

introduction: neural stimulation is a promising new technology for the treatment of medically-intractable seizures.  transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) is a simple, non-invasive, low cost technique which is widely used in neurophysiology. in a few studies that have been performed at different frequencies the therapeutic effects of this technique were not obvious. repetition of low frequenc...

conclusions when itbs was applied over the primary motor cortex, it significantly improved manual dexterity, but had no significant effect on the hand motor imagery ability in ms patients. results itbs group showed a reduction in the time required to complete the 9hpt (mean difference = -3.05, p = 0.002), and an increase in the number of blocks transferred in one minute in the bbt (mean differe...

purpose: transcranial magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound (mrgfus) is a new development in the field of functional neurosurgery. a comprehensive review of the current literature was performed to evaluate of transcranial mrgfus in treatment of essential tremor (et) and parkinson’s disease. methods: articles available in electronic databases of pubmed, and web of science, as of july 2016...

introduction: measuring the size of motor evoked potentials (meps) induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) is an investigational technique to show the level of corticospinal excitability however, some of the fundamental methodological aspects of tms (such as the effects of inter-pulse intervals (ipi) on mep size) are not fully understood, this issue raises concerns about the reliabil...

OBJECTIVE The interhemispheric competition model proposes that the functional recovery of motor deficits in patients after stroke can be achieved by increasing the excitability of the affected hemisphere or decreasing the excitability of the unaffected hemisphere. We investigated whether bilateral repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation might improve the paretic hand in patients after stro...