Transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience–virtual lesion, chronometry, and functional connectivity
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Fifteen years after its introduction by Anthony Barker, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) appears to be 'coming of age' in cognitive neuroscience and promises to reshape the way we investigate brain-behavior relations. Among the many methods now available for imaging the activity of the human brain, magnetic stimulation is the only technique that allows us to interfere actively with brain function. As illustrated by several experiments over the past couple of years, this property of TMS allows us to investigate the relationship between focal cortical activity and behavior, to trace the timing at which activity in a particular cortical region contributes to a given task, and to map the functional connectivity between brain regions.
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TMS has a variety of cognitive and therapeutic effects.
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- Authors
- Pascual-Leone, A.
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Neurobiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2000-04-01
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 232-237
- ISSN
- 0959-4388 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1995412600
- Cited by
- 923
- References
- 40
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- FWCI
- 3.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Neurobiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH60734, R01MH060734, R01MH57980, R01MH057980)
- National Center for Research Resources (M01RR001032, MO1-RR01032)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- transcranial magnetic stimulation, virtual lesion, chronometry, functional connectivity, brain-behavior relationship, human brain function
- MeSH terms
- Behavior, Mental Disorders, Brain, Brain Diseases, Chronobiology Phenomena, Cognition, Electric Stimulation, Electromagnetic Fields, Humans, Functional Laterality, Neurosciences, Physical Stimulation, Reaction Time, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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