Effects of Non‐Invasive Brain Stimulation for Degenerative Cerebellar Ataxia: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

A Matsugi, H Ohtsuka, K Bando… - Movement Disorders …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background This systematic review and meta‐analysis aimed to assess the effectiveness of
non‐invasive brain stimulation (NIBS), including repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation …

Exploring the therapeutic effects and mechanisms of transcranial alternating current stimulation on improving walking ability in stroke patients via modulating …

T Feng, L Zhang, Y Wu, L Tang, X Chen, Y Li, C Shan - The Cerebellum, 2024 - Springer
The cerebellum plays an important role in maintaining balance, posture control, muscle
tone, and lower limb coordination in healthy individuals and stroke patients. At the same …

Excessive excitability of inhibitory cortical circuit and disturbance of ballistic targeting movement in degenerative cerebellar ataxia

A Matsugi, S Nishishita, K Bando, Y Kikuchi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
This study aimed to investigate abnormalities in inhibitory cortical excitability and motor
control during ballistic-targeting movements in individuals with degenerative cerebellar …

Cerebellar repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation has no effect on contraction-induced facilitation of corticospinal excitability

A Matsugi, A Tsuzaki, S Jinai, Y Okada, N Mori… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
This study aimed to investigate whether the cerebellum contributes to contraction-induced
facilitation (CIF) of contralateral corticospinal excitability. To this end, repetitive cerebellar …

Cerebellar TMS Induces Motor Responses Mediating Modulation of Spinal Excitability: A Literature Review

A Matsugi - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Since individuals with cerebellar lesions often exhibit hypotonia, the cerebellum may
contribute to the regulation of muscle tone and spinal motoneuron pool excitability …

Cerebellar repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation modulates the motor learning of visually guided voluntary postural control task

A Matsugi, N Mori, K Hosomi, Y Saitoh - Neuroscience Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigated whether vermal cerebellar low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic
stimulation (crTMS) affects motor learning of visually guided postural tracking training (VTT) …