The uses and interpretations of the motor-evoked potential for understanding behaviour

S Bestmann, JW Krakauer - Experimental brain research, 2015 - Springer
The motor-evoked potential (MEP) elicited in peripheral muscles by transcranial magnetic
stimulation (TMS) over human motor cortex is one of the hallmark measures for non-invasive …

Brain networks and their relevance for stroke rehabilitation

AG Guggisberg, PJ Koch, FC Hummel… - Clinical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Stroke has long been regarded as focal disease with circumscribed damage leading to
neurological deficits. However, advances in methods for assessing the human brain and in …

Neuroplasticity associated with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

DR Grooms, SJ Page, DS Nichols-Larsen… - journal of orthopaedic & …, 2017 - jospt.org
Study Design Controlled laboratory study. Background Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)
injury may result in neuroplastic changes due to lost mechanoreceptors of the ACL and …

The use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience: a new synthesis of methodological issues

M Sandrini, C Umiltà, E Rusconi - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has become a mainstay of cognitive neuroscience,
thus facing new challenges due to its widespread application on behaviorally silent areas. In …

Motor potentials evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation: interpreting a simple measure of a complex system

DA Spampinato, J Ibanez, L Rocchi… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non‐invasive technique that is increasingly
used to study the human brain. One of the principal outcome measures is the motor‐evoked …

Role of the contralesional hemisphere in post-stroke recovery of upper extremity motor function

CM Buetefisch - Frontiers in neurology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Identification of optimal treatment strategies to improve recovery is limited by the incomplete
understanding of the neurobiological principles of recovery. Motor cortex (M1) …

Contribution of transcranial magnetic stimulation to assessment of brain connectivity and networks

M Hallett, R Di Iorio, PM Rossini, JE Park, R Chen… - Clinical …, 2017 - Elsevier
The goal of this review is to show how transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) techniques
can make a contribution to the study of brain networks. Brain networks are fundamental in …

Specialization of reach function in human posterior parietal cortex

M Vesia, JD Crawford - Experimental brain research, 2012 - Springer
Posterior parietal cortex (PPC) plays an important role in the planning and control of goal-
directed action. Single-unit studies in monkeys have identified reach-specific areas in the …

Combining TMS and fMRI: from 'virtual lesions' to functional-network accounts of cognition

CC Ruff, J Driver, S Bestmann - Cortex, 2009 - Elsevier
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is increasingly used in Cognitive Neuroscience to
study functional contributions of a stimulated brain region to cognitive and perceptual …

Hebbian and anti-Hebbian spike-timing-dependent plasticity of human cortico-cortical connections

G Koch, V Ponzo, F Di Lorenzo… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Learning of new skills may occur through Hebbian associative changes in the synaptic
strength of cortical connections [spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP)], but how the …