Pleger, B and Blankenburg, F and Bestmann, S and Ruff, CC and Wiech, K and Stephan, KE and Friston, KJ and Dolan, RJ (2006) Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation-induced changes in sensorimotor coupling parallel improvements of somatosensation in humans. Journal of Neuroscience , 26 (7) pp.1945 - 1952.
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Abstract
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is an established technique for non-invasive stimulation ofhumancortex. Although studies have shown an influence of rTMS on single cortical regions and on simple behavioral response patterns, its influences on the dynamics of task-related activity in cortical networks have not been characterized. We provide such a characterization by showing that 5 Hz rTMS over primary somatosensory cortex (SI) induces a reconfiguration of activity patterns in a sensorimotor network, comprising the stimulated region and ipsilateral primary motor cortex (MI). These plastic changes endure for up to 120 min and are correlated with behavioral improvement in discrimination. Dynamic causal modeling showed that this reconfiguration could be explained by an rTMSinduced increase in SI excitability (self-connection) and an increase in the effective connectivity from SI to MI. Thus, our data demonstrate that rTMS can temporarily induce behaviorally relevant reorganization within a complex cortical network underlying human somatosensory experience.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation-induced changes in sensorimotor coupling parallel improvements of somatosensation in humans |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | 2005/06, article, checked, Dept-Wellcome, Div-Neurology, Div-Neuropsychiatry, March, OnCite-toadd, PubMed |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Psychology and Language Sciences (Division of) > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences |
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