Frontiers in Neuroscience (May 2020)

Understanding Cortical Dysfunction in Schizophrenia With TMS/EEG

  • Aadith Vittala,
  • Nicholas Murphy,
  • Atul Maheshwari,
  • Atul Maheshwari,
  • Vaishnav Krishnan,
  • Vaishnav Krishnan,
  • Vaishnav Krishnan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00554
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14

Abstract

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In schizophrenia and related disorders, a deeper mechanistic understanding of neocortical dysfunction will be essential to developing new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. To this end, combined transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography (TMS/EEG) provides a non-invasive tool to simultaneously perturb and measure neurophysiological correlates of cortical function, including oscillatory activity, cortical inhibition, connectivity, and synchronization. In this review, we summarize the findings from a variety of studies that apply TMS/EEG to understand the fundamental features of cortical dysfunction in schizophrenia. These results lend to future applications of TMS/EEG in understanding the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.

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