Transcranial magnetic stimulation to assess exercise-induced neuroplasticity

CV Turco, AJ Nelson - Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Aerobic exercise facilitates neuroplasticity and has been linked to improvements in cognitive
and motor function. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive technique …

[PDF][PDF] Estimulação magnética transcraniana: uma breve revisão dos princípios e aplicações

RH Matsuda, GP Tardelli, CO Guimarães… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2019 - vhosouza.github.io
A estimulação magnética transcraniana é um método não invasivo de estimulação do córtex
humano. Conhecida pela sigla TMS, do inglês transcranial magnetic stimulation, a técnica …

Forearm and hand muscles exhibit high coactivation and overlapping of cortical motor representations

GP Tardelli, VH Souza, RH Matsuda, MAC Garcia… - Brain Topography, 2022 - Springer
Most of the motor mapping procedures using navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation
(nTMS) follow the conventional somatotopic organization of the primary motor cortex (M1) by …

Human motor cortical organization is influenced by handedness

C Nicolini, D Harasym, CV Turco, AJ Nelson - Cortex, 2019 - Elsevier
Although there is some evidence that handedness is associated with structural and
functional differences in the motor cortex, findings remain inconclusive. Here, we evaluated …

Forearm Posture Affects the Corticospinal Excitability of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Hand Muscles in Dominant and Nondominant Sides

MAC Garcia, TS de Carvalho… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - journals.humankinetics.com
Different forearm postures can modulate corticospinal excitability. However, there is no
consensus on whether handedness plays a role in such a mechanism. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Lateralized asymmetries in distribution of muscular evoked responses: An evidence of specialized motor control over an intrinsic hand muscle

VH Souza, O Baffa, MAC Garcia - Brain Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Lateralized neural control over hand muscles has been associated with anatomical and
physiological asymmetries in the central nervous system. Some studies suggested that the …

The surface electrode placement determines the magnitude of motor potential evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation

MAC Garcia, J Lindolfo-Almas, RH Matsuda… - … Signal Processing and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Different electrode montages have been adopted to record the surface
electromyographic signal (sEMG) from which motor potentials (MEP amplitude) evoked by …

Motor potential evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation depends on the placement protocol of recording electrodes: a pilot study

MAC Garcia, VH Souza, J Lindolfo-Almas… - Biomedical physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective: There seems to be no consensus in the literature regarding the protocol of surface
electromyography (sEMG) electrode placement for recording motor evoked potentials (MEP) …

Within-and Between-Session Reliability of Corticospinal Excitability in the Upper Extremity

K Takeno, GE Norte, NR Glaviano… - … in Physical Education …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Reliable techniques to assess centrally mediated function in healthy individuals are
essential to understand the origins of neuromuscular dysfunction in pathologic populations …

Development of instrumentation for neuronavigation and transcranial magnetic stimulation

VHO Souza - 2018 - teses.usp.br
Neuronavigation and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) are valuable tools in clinical
and research environment. Neuronavigation provides visual guidance of a given instrument …