Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) excites neurons in the cortex, and neural activity can be simultaneously recorded using electroencephalography (EEG). However, TMS-evoked EEG potentials (TEPs) do not only reflect transcranial as they contaminated by artifacts. Over last two decades, significant developments amplifiers, TMS-compatible technology, customized hardware open source software h...

Phonologically similar items (mell, rell, gell) are more difficult to remember than dissimilar items (shen, floy, stap), likely because of mutual interference of the items in the phonological store. Low-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), guided by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to disrupt this phonological confusion by stimulation of the left inferior pari...

A range of techniques are now available for modulating the activity of the brain in healthy people and people with neurological conditions. These techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial current stimulation (tCS, which includes direct and alternating current), create magnetic or electrical fields that cross the intact skull and affect neural processing in b...

This paper proposes neural mechanisms of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). TMS can stimulate the brain non-invasively through a brief magnetic pulse delivered by a coil placed on the scalp, interfering with specific cortical functions with a high temporal resolution. Due to these advantages, TMS has been a popular experimental tool in various neuroscience fields. However, the neural mech...

Abstract While TMS represents an exciting treatment tool for psychiatry, clinical response depression is <50%. Furthermore, <1% of available protocols (frequency, amplitude, pattern, etc) are utilized clinically. The low rate and under-utilization novel patterns partially because we lack a mechanistic understanding the circuit-level neuromodulatory changes induced by TMS. This impedes optimizat...

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...

Introduction Paired-Pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) can be used to study cortical excitability. Short interstimulus intervals (ISIs; 1-4 ms) inhibit while longer ISIs (615 ms) facilitate motor evoked potentials (MEPs) induced by the TMS test pulse to the primary motor cortex [1]. Recently, the feasibility of interleaving TMS with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was de...

This study was designed to investigate the effect of single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on the isochronic performance of sequential movements which were recorded using a digitising pad. Magnetic stimulation was applied through an 8-shaped magnetic coil over primary motor and premotor cortex at a specific time point while executing the first of a three movement sequence. TMS ap...

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) induces electrical currents in the brain to stimulate neural tissue. This article reviews our present understanding of TMS methodology, focusing on its biophysical foundations. We concentrate on how the laws of electromagnetic induction apply to TMS; addressing issues such as the location, area (i.e., focality), depth, and mechanism of TMS. We also presen...