… that patients with AD showed higher cortical excitability (ie, lower resting and active motor
thresholds), lower cortical … ), and impaired cortical plasticity (ie, decreased LTP-like plasticity) …

… features of cortical excitability and the use of TMS techniques to modulate cortical function. A
… This narrative review was focused on the study of cortical excitability in Alzheimer’s disease …

… plasticity in patients with mild-to-moderate AD. To investigate further the putative mechanisms
that might underlie cortical plasticity … a sustained increase in motor cortex excitability (15). …

… altered brain connectivity, exhausted neural plasticity and aberrant neuronal activity are
facets of the same coin linked to age-related neurodegenerative dementia of Alzheimer type. …

… alterations of synaptic plasticity (long-term potentiation, LTP) may precede neurodegeneration
in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We studied LTP-like corticospinal plasticity induced by paired…

… were treated with drugs that could have modulated cerebral cortex excitability such as
acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs),10 antidepressants or any other neuroactive drugs (ie, …

… Patients included in this study did not received drugs that could have modulated cerebral
cortex excitability such as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors [27], L-DOPA [28] or dopamine …

… inverse correlation between cortical excitability and learning ability. In conclusion, higher
cortical excitability was associated … atrophy and cognitive deficits due to Alzheimer's Disease. …

… LTP-like cortical plasticity abnormalities are present in AD patients. Paired … cortical plasticity
in patients with AD. High-frequency pulses (5–20 Hz) appear to increase cortical excitability …

… Hz, it can induce inhibition of cortical excitability for several minutes [18]. Altered mechanisms
of cortical plasticity have been recently described in AD patients using these protocols [16, …