Assessment of cortical excitability using threshold tracking techniques

S Vucic, J Howells, L Trevillion… - Muscle & Nerve: Official …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional paired‐pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) techniques of assessing
cortical excitability are limited by fluctuations in the motor evoked potential (MEP) amplitude …

Inter-and intra-individual variability of paired-pulse curves with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

F Maeda, M Gangitano, M Thall… - Clinical neurophysiology, 2002 - Elsevier
Objectives: Previous studies have evaluated the variability of motor thresholds (MTs) and
amplitude of motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) …

An initial transient-state and reliable measures of corticospinal excitability in TMS studies

S Schmidt, RM Cichy, A Kraft, J Brocke… - Clinical …, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine if an initial transient state
influences the acquisition of reliable estimates of corticospinal excitability in transcranial …

Inter-session reliability of short-interval intracortical inhibition measured by threshold tracking TMS

JM Matamala, J Howells, T Dharmadasa, T Trinh… - Neuroscience …, 2018 - Elsevier
Paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) using fixed test stimuli suffers from
marked variability of the motor evoked potential (MEP) amplitude. Threshold tracking TMS …

The minimal number of TMS trials required for the reliable assessment of corticospinal excitability, short interval intracortical inhibition, and intracortical facilitation

M Biabani, M Farrell, M Zoghi, G Egan… - Neuroscience …, 2018 - Elsevier
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-induced motor evoked potentials (MEPs) are
frequently used to assess corticospinal and intercortical activities. Trial to trial variance of the …

Minimum number of trials required for within-and between-session reliability of TMS measures of corticospinal excitability

MR Goldsworthy, B Hordacre, MC Ridding - Neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-elicited motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) exhibit
considerable trial-to-trial variability, potentially reducing the sensitivity and reproducibility of …

Impact of coil position and electrophysiological monitoring on determination of motor thresholds to transcranial magnetic stimulation

AB Conforto, WJ Z'Graggen, AS Kohl, KM Rösler… - Clinical …, 2004 - Elsevier
Objective: We compared motor and movement thresholds to transcranial magnetic
stimulation (TMS) in healthy subjects and investigated the effect of different coil positions on …

Novel threshold tracking techniques suggest that cortical hyperexcitability is an early feature of motor neuron disease

S Vucic, MC Kiernan - Brain, 2006 - academic.oup.com
The dying forward hypothesis of motor neuron disease (MND) suggests that
corticomotoneurons induce excitotoxic anterior horn cell death, with involvement of the …

Threshold tracking transcranial magnetic stimulation: effects of age and gender on motor cortical function

K Shibuya, SB Park, N Geevasinga, W Huynh… - Clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective Recently, the utility of threshold tracking paired-pulse transcranial magnetic
stimulation (TTTMS), to measure changes in cortical excitabilitability, has been established …

Optimal number of pulses as outcome measures of neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation

WH Chang, PJ Fried, S Saxena, A Jannati… - Clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective Identify the optimal number of pulses necessary to achieve reliable measures of
motor evoked potentials (MEPs) in transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies. Methods …