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13 - Paradoxical functional facilitation with noninvasive brain stimulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

By
Umer Najib  and
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Edited by
Narinder Kapur
With
Alvaro Pascual-Leone ,
Vilayanur Ramachandran ,
Jonathan Cole ,
Sergio Della Sala ,
Tom Manly  and
Andrew Mayes
Foreword by
Oliver Sacks
Umer Najib
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School
Narinder Kapur
Affiliation:
University College London
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School
Vilayanur Ramachandran
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
Jonathan Cole
Affiliation:
University of Bournemouth
Sergio Della Sala
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Tom Manly
Affiliation:
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Andrew Mayes
Affiliation:
University of Manchester
Oliver Sacks
Affiliation:
Columbia University Medical Center
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Summary

Summary

Noninvasive brain stimulation with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) or transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is valuable in research and has potential therapeutic applications in cognitive neuroscience, neurophysiology, psychiatry, neurology and neurorehabilitation. TMS and tDCS allow diagnostic and interventional neurophysiology applications, targeted neuropharmacology delivery and systematic exploration of local cortical plasticity and brain network dynamics. Repetitive TMS or tDCS can modulate cortical excitability of the directly targeted brain region beyond the duration of the brain stimulation train by the induction of phenomena similar to long-term potentiation (LTP) or long-term depression (LTD), which may increase or decrease cortical excitability respectively. The effects of TMS or tDCS do not remain limited to the targeted brain region, and thus disruption of brain activity by TMS or tDCS can result in behavioural facilitation via distant cortical or subcortical structures. In addition, state-dependent effects of noninvasive brain stimulation condition the impact of TMS and tDCS and may result in paradoxical behavioural effects of the stimulation. Greater understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms involved in such intances may allow us to systematically use TMS or tDCS to leverage paradoxical functional facilitation for therapeutic applications.

Introduction

In the past decades, neuroimaging techniques such as computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electro-encephalography (EEG) have shaped the ways in which we model behaviour. Anatomical neuroimaging techniques produce ever more detailed descriptions of the extent of lesions produced by brain injury.

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The Paradoxical Brain , pp. 234 - 260
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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