TY - JOUR
T1 - Transcranial magnetic stimulation
T2 - Studying the brain-behaviour relationship by induction of 'virtual lesions'
AU - Pascual-Leone, Alvaro
AU - Bartres-Faz, David
AU - Keenan, Julian P.
PY - 1999/7/29
Y1 - 1999/7/29
N2 - Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) provides a non-invasive method of induction of a focal current in the brain and transient modulation of the function of the targeted cortex. Despite limited understanding about focality and mechanisms of action, TMS provides a unique opportunity of studying brain behaviour relations in normal humans. TMS can enhance the results of other neuroimaging techniques by establishing the causal link between brain activity and task performance, and by exploring functional brain connectivity.
AB - Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) provides a non-invasive method of induction of a focal current in the brain and transient modulation of the function of the targeted cortex. Despite limited understanding about focality and mechanisms of action, TMS provides a unique opportunity of studying brain behaviour relations in normal humans. TMS can enhance the results of other neuroimaging techniques by establishing the causal link between brain activity and task performance, and by exploring functional brain connectivity.
KW - Brain-behaviour relation
KW - Non-invasive
KW - Transcranial magnetic stimulation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0033614991&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1098/rstb.1999.0476
DO - 10.1098/rstb.1999.0476
M3 - Article
C2 - 10466148
AN - SCOPUS:0033614991
SN - 0962-8436
VL - 354
SP - 1229
EP - 1238
JO - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
IS - 1387
ER -