TMS-induced neuronal plasticity enables targeted remodeling of visual cortical maps.

ABSTRACT: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has become a popular clinical method to modify cortical processing. The events underlying TMS-induced functional changes remain, however, largely unknown because current noninvasive recording methods lack spatiotemporal resolution or are incompatible with the strong TMS-associated electrical field. In particular, an answer to the question of how the relatively unspecific nature of TMS stimulation leads to specific neuronal reorganization, as well as a detailed picture of TMS-triggered reorganization of functional brain modules, is missing. Here we used real-time optical imaging in an animal experimental setting to track, at submillimeter range, TMS-induced functional changes in visual feature maps over several square millimeters of the brain's surfac

SUBMITTER: Kozyrev V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6016806 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature