... Abstract The majority of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the USA are mild in severity. Sports, particularly American football, and military experience are especially associated with repetitive, mild TBI (mTBI). The consequences of repetitive brain injury have garnered increasing scientific...

... Abstract In recent years, efforts have focused on investigating the neurophysiological changes that occur in the brain after stroke, and on developing novel strategies such as additional brain stimulation to enhance sensorimotor and cognitive recovery. In the 1990s, repetitive transcranial...

... Abstract Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a new technology which holdspromise as a treatment in neuropsychiatry. Drugs and psychotherapy are inadequate forrelieving depressive symptoms in a substantial portion of severely depressed patients. In thatpatient group...

... Abstract In recent years, the therapeutic properties of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation(rTMS) have been investigated more or less systematically for the treatment of a multitudeof psychiatric disorders. Unfortunately, the effects are far from being convincing.Therefore...

... Abstract For more than a decade, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has beeninvestigated as therapeutic intervention in mental diseases. Depression was the first psychiatricdisorder where rTMS was applied and is still a major application with more than 30published placebo...

... Abstract Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is being investigated as a treatmentof psychiatric disorders. This chapter reviews publications of the treatment of anxiety disorders:obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and panic disorder(PD...

... Abstract Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a potent tool for modifyingneural activities at the stimulated site and at a distance along functional anatomical connections.Since various neurological diseases are associated with dysfunction of neuralpathways that include...

...:189–195. 11. Borckardt JJ, Smith AR, Reeves ST, Weinstein M, Kozel FA, Nahas Z, Shelley N, Branham RK, Thomas KJ, George MS: Fifteen minutes of left prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation acutely increases thermal pain thresholds in healthy adults. Pain Res Manag 2007;12:287–290...

... Abstract Some neurological or psychiatric positive, productive symptoms are an abnormal persistence of a sensorial feeling or abnormal repetition of a motor, behavioral or cognitive process corresponding to a perseverative symptom. Palinopsia, palinacousis, and related sensorial symptoms have...

... of expression due to loss of vocabulary and verbal paraphasia, (3) preserved ability of repetition, and (4) selective difficulty in reading and writing kanji (Japanese logographic character) with preserved ability of reading and writing kana (Japanese syllabic character). To be more specific, the difficulty...

... with electromagnetic neurostimulation techniques, has been widely used for the treatment of different types of pharmacoresistant pain, and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) exemplify readily available noninvasive neuromodulation methods. We have used...

... Abstract Aphasia refers to a disorder of language processing caused by a dysfunction in specific brain regions. It is common after stroke and associated with relevant disability and higher mortality. Evaluation of language function (spontaneous speech, auditory comprehension, naming, repetition...