Further evidence for NMDA-dependence of the after-effects of human theta burst stimulation. Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology

摘要

Theta-burst repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TBS) is an exciting new method of inducing plastic changes in brain excitability (Huang et al., 2005). In this method, low intensity TMS stimuli delivered intermittently over a period of 3 min, induce an increase in corticospinal excitability lasting approximately 20 min. This technique is particularly compelling as it translates findings from animal models of LTP to the intact human cortex (Larson and Lynch, 1986,1988).