Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies

This study shows that tACS at individual alpha frequency alters alpha power and predicts visuospatial attention bias, supporting synchronization theory.

This study finds that TMS-evoked propagation of neural signals in frontoparietal regions correlates with better global cognitive performance, but not local activity.

This study tests if five daily transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) sessions improve visual acuity and contrast sensitivity in adults with amblyopia, finding short-term improvements but no long-lasting effects.

This study investigates whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) affects performance on a tongue twister task in healthy young adults and finds no significant modulation of task performance or motor excitability.

The paper introduces -SATA, a MATLAB toolbox that estimates individual brain current density from tDCS using MRI data, improving accuracy and customization over previous methods.

This study examines the immediate and long-term effects of tDCS on sensory processing in mice, revealing polarity-specific changes in neural activity and immunohistochemical markers.

This study compares corticospinal and cortico-cortical excitability and variability between conventional and HD tDCS montages, finding reduced intra-individual variability with conventional tDCS.

This study applies TBS to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and observes changes in aMCC excitability and goal-directed behavior.

This study examines cortical excitability patterns in schizophrenia using TMS-EEG, finding reduced early and increased late excitability, with variability linked to symptom improvement.

This study shows that motor imagery during arm immobilization prevents sensorimotor representation changes, reduces cortical excitability loss, and increases REM sleep duration.

This study evaluates real-time EEG-TMS methods, finding that a new algorithm performs as well as existing methods but is more efficient.

This study investigates the effects of brain stimulation on sustained attention but finds no significant reduction in the vigilance decrement using tDCS or theta tACS.

This study investigates how different intensities and timings of TMS affect visual perception and brain activity, finding that lower intensities can enhance performance.

This study evaluates how elbow flexion angle affects cortical voluntary activation and MEP ratios in non-impaired participants using TMS and peripheral stimulation.

This study investigates how the phase of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) affects visually evoked steady state responses (SSRs) in humans, finding that phase shifts modulate SSR amplitudes and that optimal timing depends on neural conduction times.

This study shows that altering corticocortical plasticity between PMv and M1 changes oscillatory activity in motor circuits, with state-dependent effects on beta and theta rhythms.

The paper quantifies TMS intensity thresholds for inducing pain at Broca's area and M1, finding they are lower than motor thresholds and no sex differences exist.

This study uses fNIRS-EEG to measure brain activation changes after ctDCS and VR-based Balance Training in chronic stroke survivors, finding significant effects of electrode montage and intervention state on neurovascular coupling measures.

This study shows that multifocal tDCS modulates resting-state connectivity in older adults, with effects dependent on electric field distribution and baseline connectivity.

The paper introduces a flexible workflow for simulating transcranial electric stimulation in healthy and lesioned brains using open-source tools.

This study applies long-interval paired-pulse TMS to motion-sensitive visual cortex but finds no changes in motion perception.

The paper investigates how baseline functional network properties of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex predict resilience to inhibitory rTMS, finding that globally integrated regions show greater resilience.

This study investigates the effects of tDCS on stopping latency markers using EEG and EMG, finding no effect of active tDCS on stopping latencies and highlighting variability among latency markers.

This study shows that arousal levels influence how individuals respond to tDCS, with moderate arousal improving reaction times and affecting pupil dilation.

This study shows that stimulating the right frontopolar cortex with tDCS enhances reward-based motor learning by increasing reward expectation and reducing exploration volatility.

The paper shows that lower excitability in early visual cortex predicts stronger mental imagery and that reducing excitability increases imagery strength.

This study investigates how short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) changes during motor imagery using an adaptive threshold-hunting paradigm and finds that SICI modulation depends on conditioning stimulus intensity.

This study tests if online rTMS improves working memory in older adults, finding it instead decreases accuracy in high-demand tasks.

The paper uses TMS to show that levels of short-interval intracortical inhibition predict the location and variability of the FDI somatomotor representation in healthy volunteers.