OBJECTIVE There is growing interest in neuropsychiatry for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as a neuromodulatory treatment. However, there are limitations in interpreting rTMS effects as a real consequence of physiological brain changes or as placebo-mediated unspecific effects, which may be particularly strong in psychiatric patients. This is due to the fact that existing sh...

TMS contaminates concurrent EEG recordings with Auditory Evoked Potentials (AEPs), which are caused by the perceived impulsive acoustic noise of coils. We hereby introduce a novel and perceptually motivated/tuned method for suppression auditory evoked artifacts rTMS under name “Auditory Fine-Tuned Suppressor TMS-Clicks” (TMS-click AFTS). The proposed is based on deployment psychophysically-matc...

OBJECTIVE The combination of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroencephalography (EEG) has been hampered by the large artifact that the TMS generates in the EEG. Using TMS with EEG necessitates a sophisticated artifact-resistant EEG system that can acquire reliable signals in the crucial several tens of milliseconds immediately following the TMS pulse. Here, we demonstrate the us...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether right index finger movement during visually guided manual tracking task is fluctuated by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) specifically over the cerebellum and is differently fluctuated by TMS over different sites of the cerebellum. TMS was delivered over the left, middle, or right cerebellum, or Pz. Index finger movement and electromyo...

Background: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) allows noninvasive stimulation of neurons using timevarying magnetic fields. Researchers have begun combining TMS with functional imaging to simultaneously stimulate and image brain activity. Recently, the feasibility of interleaving TMS with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was demonstrated. This study tests this new method to det...

Combining Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and Electroencephaloraphy (EEG) offered insights into neural interaction during cognition which allows the investigation on the causal role of specific brain areas in behavior and the interactive connection between the brain areas. The TMS pulse in the TMS-EEG combining study introduces artifacts in the EEG electrodes which may mask the underlyi...

BACKGROUND Many recent studies have used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to study brain-behavior relationships. However, the pulse-to-pulse neural effects of rapid delivery of multiple TMS pulses are unknown largely because of TMS-evoked electrical artifacts limiting recording of brain activity.ObjectiveIn this study, TMS-related artifacts were removed with independent compo...

Abstract Empathic abilities have been suggested to involve automatic simulation processes including mirror-like mechanisms in the somatosensory domain, within so-called tactile mirror system (TaMS). In TaMS, observation of a touch on one else's body activates same cortical network involved perception, comprising primary cortex (S1). As empathic appear be altered patients with borderline persona...

LDV FORUM – Band 21(1) – 2006 Abstract Th is article presents UniTerm, a typical representative of terminology management systems (TMS). Th e fi rst part will highlight common characteristics of TMS and give further insight into the UniTerm entry format and database design. Practise has shown that automatic, i.e. blind exchange of terminologies is diffi cult to achieve. Th e second section give...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) evolved from a simple method to stimulate the motor cortex to an invaluable tool for multiple diagnostic, research, and therapeutic applications. A further development of this noninvasive brain stimulation technique is concomitant electroencephalographic (EEG) recording during TMS. The theoretical underpinnings and the technological innovation of TMS-EEG ...