Is sham cTBS real cTBS? The effect on EEG dynamics.
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SUBMITTER: Opitz A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4287020 | biostudies-literature | 2014
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Is sham cTBS real cTBS? The effect on EEG dynamics.
Opitz Alexander A Legon Wynn W Mueller Jerel J Barbour Aaron A Paulus Walter W Tyler William J WJ
Frontiers in human neuroscience 20150108
Increasing sensitivity of modern evaluation tools allows for the study of weaker electric stimulation effects on neural populations. In the current study we examined the effects of sham continuous theta burst (cTBS) transcranial magnetic stimulation to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) upon somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP) and frontal-parietal phase coupling of alpha and beta bands. Sham TMS results in an induced electric field amplitude roughly 5% that of real TMS with a simi ...[more]
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