Determinants of the induction of cortical plasticity by non‐invasive brain stimulation in healthy subjects

MC Ridding, U Ziemann - The Journal of physiology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to induce cortical plasticity with non‐invasive brain stimulation (NBS) techniques
has provided novel and exciting opportunities for examining the role of the human cortex …

Modulation of cortical excitability induced by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: influence of timing and geometrical parameters and underlying mechanisms

GS Pell, Y Roth, A Zangen - Progress in neurobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique that
activates neurons via generation of brief pulses of high-intensity magnetic field. If these …

Metaplasticity in human cortex

F Müller-Dahlhaus, U Ziemann - The Neuroscientist, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Metaplasticity refers to the modification of plasticity induction (direction, magnitude, duration)
by previous activity of the same postsynaptic neuron or neuronal network. In recent years …

Safety of theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation: a systematic review of the literature

L Oberman, D Edwards, M Eldaief… - Journal of Clinical …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Theta burst stimulation (TBS) protocols have recently emerged as a method to transiently
alter cortical excitability in the human brain through repetitive transcranial magnetic …

[HTML][HTML] Consensus paper: probing homeostatic plasticity of human cortex with non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation

A Karabanov, U Ziemann, M Hamada, MS George… - Brain stimulation, 2015 - Elsevier
Homeostatic plasticity is thought to stabilize neural activity around a set point within a
physiologically reasonable dynamic range. Over the last ten years, a wide range of non …

Neural plasticity and its contribution to functional recovery

N Sharma, J Classen, LG Cohen - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2013 - Elsevier
In this chapter we address the phenomena of neural plasticity, operationally defined as the
ability of the central nervous system to adapt in response to changes in the environment or …

Efficacy of coupling inhibitory and facilitatory repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to enhance motor recovery in hemiplegic stroke patients

WH Sung, CP Wang, CL Chou, YC Chen, YC Chang… - Stroke, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—Although there has been extensive research on the
effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to improve patients' …

Solutions for managing variability in non-invasive brain stimulation studies

A Guerra, V López-Alonso, B Cheeran, A Suppa - Neuroscience letters, 2020 - Elsevier
In the last three decades, a number of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) protocols,
capable of assessing and modulating plasticity in the human motor cortex (M1), have been …

Transcranial magnetic stimulation as a tool to induce and explore plasticity in humans

A Suppa, F Asci, A Guerra - Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 2022 - Elsevier
Activity-dependent synaptic plasticity is the main theoretical framework to explain
mechanisms of learning and memory. Synaptic plasticity can be explored experimentally in …

Network connectivity and individual responses to brain stimulation in the human motor system

L Cárdenas-Morales, LJ Volz, J Michely… - Cerebral …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The mechanisms driving cortical plasticity in response to brain stimulation are still
incompletely understood. We here explored whether neural activity and connectivity in the …