Application of Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Map the Supplementary Motor Area in Healthy Subjects

Conclusions: Repetitive navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation is capable of influencing the performance of healthy participants in a task relying on hand coordination. Our approach can serve as a mapping tool for the supplementary motor area, potentially relevant for preoperative diagnostics in patients with brain tumors, epilepsy, or other brain lesions to improve outcome and potentially predict clinical course and postoperative recovery.
Source: Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology - Category: Neurology Tags: Invited Review Source Type: research