Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a neurophysiological method for stimulation of the brain cortex. It is an important tool for studying the physiology of motor and cognitive processes and for determining the function of specific brain areas and their connections. It is increasingly used to study pathophysiology of neurological and psychiatric diseases. In the lecture and in the article, we first describe important milestones that have shaped development of transcranial magnetic stimulation. We then discuss frequently applied transcranial magnetic stimulation techniques and give examples of its use in research and therapeutic purposes. The main advantage of transcranial magnetic stimulation is great temporal resolution. The main limitation is interindividual variability of transcranial magnetic stimulation measurements, which can be overcome by carefully designed study protocols. Studies that are currently conducted in the TMS lab at the Neurology Clinic in University Centre of Ljubljana are presented.
B.04 Guest lecture
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