Impact of Priming on Effectiveness of TMS in Detecting Language-eloquent Brain Areas in Tumor Patients.
Sascha FreigangShane M FresnozaKariem Mahdy AliKarla ZaarMargit JehnaGernot ReishoferKatrin RammelFritz StudencnikAnja IschebeckGord von CampePublished in: Journal of neurological surgery. Part A, Central European neurosurgery (2020)
Prior cortical activity as induced by the priming stimulation has a profound impact on the responsiveness to the nrTMS mapping paradigm. Our findings further showed that metaplasticity, a type of homeostatic plastic process, could be elicited even in cortical areas affected by a growing tumor.