Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Neural effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation at the single-cell level

  • Maria C. Romero,
  • Marco Davare,
  • Marcelo Armendariz,
  • Peter Janssen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10638-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) can modulate human brain activity, but the extent of the cortical area activated by TMS is unclear. Here, the authors show that TMS affects monkey single neuron activity in an area less than 2 mm diameter, while TMS-induced activity and task-related activity do not summate.