Altered parietal-motor connections in Alzheimer's disease patients

S Bonnì, F Lupo, E Lo Gerfo… - Journal of …, 2013 - content.iospress.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by altered functional cortico-cortical connectivity
likely due to loss of afferent and efferent connections between different cortical areas. Here …

Sensorimotor cortex excitability and connectivity in Alzheimer's disease: A TMS‐EEG co‐registration study

F Ferreri, F Vecchio, L Vollero, A Guerra… - Human brain …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Several studies have shown that, in spite of the fact that motor symptoms manifest late in the
course of Alzheimer's disease (AD), neuropathological progression in the motor cortex …

Functional integration of parietal lobe activity in early Alzheimer disease

HIL Jacobs, MPJ Van Boxtel, A Heinecke… - Neurology, 2012 - AAN Enterprises
Objectives: Parietal lobe dysfunction is an important characteristic of early Alzheimer
disease (AD). Functional studies have shown conflicting parietal activation patterns …

The relationship between motor cortex excitability and severity of Alzheimer's disease: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study

EM Khedr, MA Ahmed, ES Darwish, AM Ali - Neurophysiologie Clinique …, 2011 - Elsevier
INTRODUCTION: In Alzheimer's disease (AD), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
studies have been limited to test motor cortical excitability. The aim of this study was to …

Intra-and inter-cortical motor excitability in Alzheimer's disease

J Hoeppner, M Wegrzyn, J Thome, A Bauer… - Journal of Neural …, 2012 - Springer
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) provides evidence for facilitatory and inhibitory
motor dysfunctions in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The corpus callosum (CC) is affected in AD …

Abnormal functional connectivity in Alzheimer's disease: intrahemispheric EEG coherence during rest and photic stimulation

Y Wada, Y Nanbu, M Kikuchi, Y Koshino… - European Archives of …, 1998 - Springer
Electroencephalography (EEG) coherence provides a measure of functional correlations
between two EEG signals. The present study was conducted to examine intrahemispheric …

Transcranial magnetic stimulation in Alzheimer's disease: a neurophysiological marker of cortical hyperexcitability

G Pennisi, R Ferri, G Lanza, M Cantone… - Journal of Neural …, 2011 - Springer
Recently, neuropathological studies have shown an important motor cortex involvement in
Alzheimer's disease (AD), even in its early stages, despite the lack of clinically evident motor …

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulates electroencephalographic functional connectivity in Alzheimer's Disease

Y Guo, G Dang, B Hordacre, X Su, N Yan… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Increasing evidence demonstrates that repetitive transcranial magnetic
stimulation (rTMS) treatment of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is beneficial for improving …

Parietal-hippocampal rTMS improves cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease and increases dynamic functional connectivity of default mode network

L Wei, Y Zhang, J Wang, L Xu, K Yang, X Lv, Z Zhu… - Psychiatry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Parietal-hippocampal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) improves cognitive
function in Alzheimer's disease (AD), however, the underlying therapeutic mechanism has …

Impairment of sensory-motor plasticity in mild Alzheimer's disease

C Terranova, A Sant'Angelo, F Morgante, V Rizzo… - Brain stimulation, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Primary motor cortex (M1) is relatively spared in the early stages of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). OBJECTIVE: Aim of the present study was to investigate whether …