Background And Objective: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a safe and effective treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD); however, this treatment currently lacks reliable biomarkers of treatment response. TMS-evoked potentials (TEPs), measured using TMS-electroencephalography (TMS-EEG), have been suggested as potential biomarker candidates, with the N100 peak being one of the most promising. This study investigated the association between baseline N100 amplitude and 1 Hz right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (R-DLPFC) accelerated rTMS (arTMS) treatment in MDD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTheta burst stimulation (TBS) is a form of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation designed to induce changes of cortical excitability that outlast the period of TBS application. In this study, we explored the effects of continuous TBS (cTBS) and intermittent TBS (iTBS) versus sham TBS stimulation, applied to the left primary motor cortex, on modulation of resting state electroencephalography (rsEEG) power. We first conducted hypothesis-driven region-of-interest (ROI) analyses examining changes in alpha (8-12 Hz) and beta (13-21 Hz) bands over the left and right motor cortex.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA major goal of modern neurosurgery is the personalization of treatment to optimize or predict individual outcomes. One strategy in this regard has been to create whole-brain models of individual patients. Whole-brain modeling is a subfield of computational neuroscience that focuses on simulations of large-scale neural activity patterns across distributed brain networks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTheta burst stimulation (TBS) is a form of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation designed to induce changes of cortical excitability that outlast the period of TBS application. In this study, we explored the effects of continuous TBS (cTBS) and intermittent TBS (iTBS) versus sham TBS stimulation, applied to the primary motor cortex, on modulation of resting state electroencephalography (rsEEG) power. We first conducted hypothesis-driven region-of-interest (ROI) analyses examining changes in alpha (8-12 Hz) and beta (13-21 Hz) bands over the left and right motor cortex.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) targeting the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is effective for treatment-resistant depression, but the effects of iTBS on neurophysiological markers remain unclear. Here, we indexed transcranial magnetic stimulation-electroencephalography (TMS-EEG) markers, specifically, the N45 and N100 amplitudes, at baseline and post-iTBS, comparing separated and contiguous iTBS schedules. TMS-EEG markers were also compared between iTBS responders and nonresponders.
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