TMS Lab

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a safe, non-invasive, painless technique used to stimulate the human brain. It was invented in 1985 and has been used extensively for diagnostic, therapeutic, and research potential.

The TMS was primarily used to test the integrity of the corticospinal tract. Beyond further developments of TMS in diagnostics, mapping, and monitoring of the motor system, major other applications expanded into using TMS as a research tool in the cognitive neurosciences, and as a therapeutic tool in neurological and psychiatric disease by virtue of inducing a long-term change in excitability and connectivity of the stimulated brain networks.

TMS has a unique role in understanding how the brain works. Therefore, TMS allows establishing causality between brain activations and different types of sensory, motor, and cognitive functions and help us to:

Understand the physiology of TMS-evoked responses at the systems of the human cortex
Detect abnormalities of corticospinal tract function and motor cortical excitability
Prove the physiology of cognitive and sensorimotor processes

Show reorganization and plasticity of the human cortex during learning and rehabilitation
Prove reorganization and plasticity of the human cortex during learning and rehabilitation
Treat brain disorders

Technical Resources

Our TMS laboratory is equipped with two MagPro stimulators (MagProX100 and MagPro R20+) and multiple MagPro coils and we utilize TMS to gain novel insights into the human brain.