Combination of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a noninvasive brain stimulation and neuromodulation technique widely used in systems neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuropsychiatry. Unlike other neuroimaging modalities, it is interventional and therefore able to establish causal relationships between brain activity and behavior. Despite the many advantages of independent TMS studies to demonstrate causal influence of brain areas on cognitive tasks, these studies assume TMS modulation of cortex underneath the coil but do not obtain any neurobiological measures. Multimodal approaches that combine TMS with neuroimaging, though technically challenging, are able to circumvent this problem. In this chapter, we will discuss the challenges, solutions, and applications of the combination of TMS with functional magnetic resonance imaging.
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