title: TMS in cognitive plasticity and the potential for rehabilitation.
abstract: Cognitive neuroscientists use transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in several ways, from aiming to increase understanding of brain-behavior relationships to transiently improving performance, both in normals and in patients with neurological and neuropsychological deficits. Different types of TMS (single-pulse, paired-pulse, repetitive) are able to interfere with higher brain functions that require the cooperation of different brain areas and complex neuronal networks. Currently, behavioral TMS effects on the brain are usually short-lived and their underlying mechanisms not yet wholly understood. However, the aim of using TMS to develop rehabilitative strategies for motor, perceptive and cognitive functions represents an intriguing challenge.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Università di Siena, Policlinico Le Scotte, Viale Bracci, I-53100 Siena, Italy. Rossisimo@unisi.it <Rossisimo@unisi.it>
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.forename: Paolo M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Rossini
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000528:radiation effects; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology / Q000528:radiation effects*; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000528:radiation effects; D006801:Humans; D008280:Magnetics; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000528:radiation effects; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000528:radiation effects*; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation