The quadriceps-intermittent-fatigue (QIF) test assesses knee extensors strength, endurance and performance fatigability in isometric condition. We aimed to assess reliability agreement for this dynamic conditions with the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation. On two separate sessions, 20 young adults (25 ± 4 yr, 10 women) performed stages 100 concentric contractions at 120°/s (60° range-of-...

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders in the pediatric population. The clinical management of ADHD is currently limited by a lack of reliable diagnostic biomarkers and inadequate therapy for a minority of patients who do not respond to standard pharmacotherapy. There is optimism that noninvasive brain stimulation may help to ad...

the response rate to the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) is 21.6% to 61.3%, which shows a relative resistance to current treatments and a need for novel therapeutic approaches. here we report a case of resistant ocd with fast and dramatic response to a relatively new method of repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation. in this method a pulse magnetic field  emits from a coil o...

during the past .. years, non-invasive .rain stimulation has .ecome an emerging .eld in clinical neuroscience due to its capability to transiently modulate corticospinal excitability, motor and cognitive functions. .hereas transcranial magnetic stimulation has .een used e.tensively since more than t.o decades ago as a potential .neuromodulator., transcranial current stimulation .tcs. has more r...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of simultaneous, bihemispheric, dual-mode stimulation using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on motor functions and cortical excitability in healthy individuals. METHODS Twenty-five healthy, right-handed volunteers (10 men, 15 women; mean age, 25.5 years) were enrolled. All participants ...

The effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy in obsessive compulsive disorder is indefinite, although it has been shown to be helpful in depression in many studies. Six cases of obsessive compulsive disorder who received repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy are presented. Afterwards, the literature about the effectiveness of transcranial magnetic sti...

RATIONALE Personalizing transcranial stimulations promises to enhance beneficial effects for individual patients. OBJECTIVE To stimulate specific cortical regions by developing a procedure to bend and position custom shaped electrodes; to probe the effects on cortical excitability produced when the properly customized electrode is targeting different cortical areas. METHOD An ad hoc neurona...