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Abstract
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a techniquedeveloped to non-invasively investigate the integrity ofhuman motor corticospinal tracts. Over the last threedecades, the use of stimulation paradigms including sin-gle-pulse TMS, paired-pulse TMS, repetitive TMS, and in-tegration with EEG and functional imaging have been de-veloped to facilitate measurement of cortical excitability.Through the use of these protocols, TMS has evolved in-to an excellent tool for measuring cortical excitability.TMS has high sensitivity in detecting subtle changes incortical excitability, and therefore it is also a good meas-ure of disturbances associated with brain disorders. Inthis review, we appraise the current literature on corticalexcitability studies using TMS in neurological disorders.We begin with a brief overview of current TMS measuresand then show how these have added to our understand-ing of the underlying mechanisms of brain disorders.
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| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) > 616.8 Malattie del sistema nervoso e disturbi mentali (Classificare qui la Neuropsichiatria, la Neurologia) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara Bisogno |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Sep 2019 12:50 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2019 14:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/5174 |
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