Transcranial magnetic brain stimulation: a tool to investigate central motor pathways

KM Rosler - Physiology, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
Transcranial magnetic stimulation allows the painless activation of cortical motor neurons
and elicits responses in a wide range of muscles, termed “motor-evoked potentials.” Since …

[HTML][HTML] Transcranial magnetic stimulation: a primer

M Hallett - Neuron, 2007 - cell.com
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a technique for noninvasive stimulation of the
human brain. Stimulation is produced by generating a brief, high-intensity magnetic field by …

Transcranial cortex stimulation with magnetic field pulses: methodologic and physiologic principles

CW Hess, HP Ludin - EEG-EMG Zeitschrift fur …, 1988 - europepmc.org
The recently introduced method of painless transcranial brain stimulation using magnetic
pulses has proved to be particularly suitable for exciting the motor cortex in conscious …

Is transcranial magnetic stimulation coming of age?

A Pascual-Leone, KJ Meador - Journal of Clinical …, 1998 - journals.lww.com
It was 12 years ago, that Anthony Barker and colleagues demonstrated the possibility of
stimulating the human brain through the scalp using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) …

Techniques of transcranial magnetic stimulation

JC Rothwell - Plasticity in the human nervous system …, 2003 - books.google.com
In this chapter I discuss the physiology of TMS and describe some of the common
techniques that have been applied by those using TMS. I will not describe the details of each …

Studies of human motor physiology with transcranial magnetic stimulation

R Chen - Muscle & nerve, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a safe, noninvasive, and painless way to
stimulate the human motor cortex in behaving human subjects. When it is applied as a …

Responses to rapid-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation of the human motor cortex

A Pascual-Leone, J Valls-Solé, EM Wassermann… - Brain, 1994 - academic.oup.com
We applied trains of focal, rapid-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the motor
cortex of 14 healthy volunteers with recording of the EMG from the contralateral abductor …

[HTML][HTML] What have we learned from “perturbing” the human cortical motor system with transcranial magnetic stimulation?

PA Chouinard, T Paus - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2010 - frontiersin.org
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we will review different approaches that one can
use with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to study both its effects on motor behavior …

Transcranial magnetic stimulation

V Reid - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics, 2003 - pmr.theclinics.com
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) became widely used as an investigative tool in
1985 when the technology became readily available [1]. This noninvasive and painless …

Electric vs magnetic trans-cranial stimulation of the brain in healthy humans: a comparative study of central motor tracts 'conductivity'and 'excitability'

MD Caramia, AM Pardal, F Zarola, PM Rossini - Brain research, 1989 - Elsevier
Motor evoked potentials (MEPs) were elicited in the thenar muscles of 11 healthy volunteers
via individual electric unifocal and magnetic trans-cranial stimuli (TCS). The effects of TCS …