The timing of transcranial magnetic stimulation relative to the phase of prefrontal alpha EEG modulates downstream target engagement

The communication through coherence model posits that brain rhythms are synchronized across different frequency bands and that effective connectivity strength between interacting regions depends on their phase relation. Evidence to support the model comes mostly from electrophysiological recordings in animals while evidence from human data is limited.

Source: BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation - May 13, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Spiro P. Pantazatos, James R. Mclntosh, Golbarg T. Saber, Xiaoxiao Sun, Jayce Doose, Josef Faller, Yida Lin, Joshua B. Teves, Aidan Blankenship, Sarah Huffman, Robin I. Goldman, Mark S. George, Paul Sajda, Truman R. Brown Source Type: research