Therapeutic Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in Stroke

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the applications of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to index and modulate the neurophysiology of the motor system after a brain injury, specifically stroke. It provides an overview of TMS, applications in healthy and neurologically injured populations to index cortical excitability and connectivity, along with the potential application to modulate excitability and connectivity to achieve a functional benefit (e.g., repetitive TMS [rTMS]). There has been growing interest to use rTMS as a potential therapeutic tool for healthy and neurological populations since it has been shown to cause lasting alterations in cortical excitability and behavior beyond that of th..