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Translational Neurodegeneration
Published in: Translational Neurodegeneration 1/2015

Open Access 01-12-2015 | Review

Transcranial magnetic stimulation to understand pathophysiology and as potential treatment for neurodegenerative diseases

Authors: Zhen Ni, Robert Chen

Published in: Translational Neurodegeneration | Issue 1/2015

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Abstract

Common neurodegenerative diseases include Parkinson’s disease (PD), Alzheimer’s disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Huntington’s disease (HD). Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a noninvasive and painless method to stimulate the human brain. Single- and paired-pulse TMS paradigms are powerful ways to study the pathophysiological mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases. Motor evoked potential studied with single-pulse TMS is increased in PD, AD and ALS, but is decreased in HD. Changes in motor cortical excitability in neurodegenerative diseases may be related to functional deficits in cortical circuits or to compensatory mechanisms. Reduction or even absence of short interval intracortical inhibition induced by paired-pulse TMS is common in neurodegenerative diseases, suggesting that there are functional impairments of inhibitory cortical circuits. Decreased short latency afferent inhibition in AD, PD and HD may be related to the cortical cholinergic deficits in these conditions. Cortical plasticity tested by paired associative stimulation or theta burst stimulation is impaired in PD, AD and HD. Repetitive TMS (rTMS) refers to the application of trains of regularly repeating TMS pulses. High-frequency facilitatory rTMS may improve motor symptoms in PD patients whereas low-frequency inhibitory stimulation is a potential treatment for levodopa induced dyskinesia. rTMS delivered both to the left and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex improves memory in AD patients. Supplementary motor cortical stimulation in low frequency may be useful for HD patients. However, the effects of treatment with multiple sessions of rTMS for neurodegenerative diseases need to be tested in large, sham-controlled studies in the future before they can be adopted for routine clinical practice.
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Metadata
Title
Transcranial magnetic stimulation to understand pathophysiology and as potential treatment for neurodegenerative diseases
Authors
Zhen Ni
Robert Chen
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Translational Neurodegeneration / Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 2047-9158
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40035-015-0045-x

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