Heading for Personalized rTMS in Tinnitus: Reliability of Individualized Stimulation Protocols in Behavioral and Electrophysiological Responses.

ABSTRACT: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation tool potentially modulating pathological brain activity. Its clinical effectiveness is hampered by varying results and characterized by inter-individual variability in treatment responses. RTMS individualization might constitute a useful strategy to overcome this variability. A precondition for this approach would be that repeatedly applied protocols result in reliable effects. The condition tinnitus provides the advantage of immediate behavioral consequences (tinnitus loudness changes) after interventions and thus offers an excellent model to exemplify TMS personalization. The aim was to investigate the test-retest reliability of short rTMS stimulations in modifying tinnitus loudness and oscillatory br

SUBMITTER: Schoisswohl S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8226921 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature