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Morotti, Sara. "Tecniche di stimolazione transcranica: TMS e tDCS a confronto." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/11538/.
Full textBiondi, Francesca. "tDCS e TMS confronto tra metodologie di stimolazione transcranica." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/17346/.
Full textSCHIAVI, SUSANNA. "Investigating the neural network underlying aesthetic experience." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/158175.
Full textThe experimental work presented in this dissertation is part of a relatively young field of research in cognitive neuroscience, neuroaesthetics. The main aim of this field is to investigate the neural underpinnings of the aesthetic experience. The studies I describe in this thesis focus on a particular aspect of the aesthetic experience, namely beauty appreciation. In particular, the experiments conducted aimed to investigate the neural correlates of beauty perception using behavioral methods as well as neurostimulation techniques such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques allow to establish causal relationships between specific brain areas and the underlying processes (for an overview see: Nitsche et al., 2008; Vincent Walsh & Cowey, 2000), adding to neuroimaging evidence. A first study, using a divided visual field paradigm, investigated hemispheric asymmetries in men and women’s preference for abstract and representational artworks (Study 1). Findings of this first experiment showed that both male and female participants liked representational paintings more when presented in the right visual field, and that liking for abstract paintings was unaffected by presentation hemifield. In Study 2, TMS applied over motion sensitive cortical area V5 while viewing a series of paintings was found to significantly decrease the perceived sense of motion, and also to significantly reduce liking of abstract (but not representational) paintings. A third study showed that TMS over the superior temporal sulcus, but not the somatosensory cortex (SC) disrupted expressivity judgment in portraits, without affecting though beauty judgments. Study 4 showed that enhancing excitability via tDCS in the reward system, and in particular in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), resulted into a slight increase in aesthetic appreciation of paintings. Finally, findings of Study 5 suggest that the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex causally contributes to mediate the link between moral and aesthetic valuation. Taken together the present results help to clarify the causal role of different brain regions underlying beauty perception and shed light on the intersection between moral and aesthetic evaluation.
VAROLI, ERICA. "TMS-EEG: a promising tool to study the cathodal tDCS effects on cortical excitability." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/280669.
Full textTranscranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive neuromodulatory technique able to induce plasticity-related alterations in neuronal excitability. There is a growing interest in the use of tDCS in both experimental and clinical settings; in particular, the chance to induce long-term effects fostered the used of the technique to treat cognitive impairments associated with different neuropsychological and psychiatric disorders. Although tDCS is increasingly used, presently little is still known about its neurophysiological underpinnings, particularly concerning the activity on the brain regions that underlie high cognitive brain functions. In these cases, optimal tDCS stimulation parameters also have yet to be clearly defined. A deeper understanding of the mechanisms underpinning this technique would be crucial to achieving a better refinement of stimulation protocols for clinical and research purposes. For this reason, a systematic and comprehensive study of its cortical effects acquires a critical relevance. In the last years, there has been indeed a keen interest in understanding the working mechanisms of this technique. To address this issue, in this project we explored the cortical plasticity modulation induced by cathodal stimulation on healthy subjects while resting or during task execution, using an integrated system of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Electroencephalography (TMS-EEG), which allows to directly measure cortical excitability modulation all over the cortex and effective connectivity. In the first study, starting from the previous results with anodal tDCS, the effects of cathodal stimulation over the right Posterior Parietal Cortex (PPC) were explored during resting state. The contralateral homologue brain area, namely the left posterior parietal cortex (PPC), was targeted with TMS before, during, and after cathodal stimulation. In the second study, we explored the behavioural effects induced by the application of cathodal tDCS over right PPC during the execution of two tasks, one of visuospatial working memory and a second tapping visual attention reorienting, which are known to involve this brain area. The aim was to find tasks sensitive to the effect of cathodal tDCS over the right PCC, to be used in the third study. A disruption of the performance was found for the Posner Cueing Task. In the third study, we employed again TMS-EEG to track the neurophysiological effects of cathodal tDCS on right PPC at an active state, i.e. while the participants were performing the task tested on the second study. The results at resting state for cathodal tDCS, both at sensors and cortical sources levels, converge in showing no differences during and after tDCS compared to pre-stimulation sessions, both at a global and local level. The previous results with anodal tDCS, instead, reported a widespread rise of cortical excitability along with a bilateral frontoparietal network, following structural connections. On the other hand, at an active state, cathodal, as well as anodal, tDCS induced modulation of cortical excitability only in the task-relevant brain regions. Several significant findings emerged from this empirical work. First of all, these data highlight a non-linear impact of anodal and cathodal stimulation on cortical excitability at rest that is not depicted by the simplistic view of anodal-excitatory and cathodal-inhibitory effects. Another relevant point is the crucial role played by the different cortical states (resting vs active). These results seem to point out that the level of cortical state can contribute to modulate the tDCS effects, in line with “activity-selectivity” hypothesis. The level of cortical state needs to be taken into account, especially to observe neuromodulatory effects also with cathodal tDCS. All these findings hold relevant implications for tDCS setup in both cognitive neuroscience experiments and rehabilitation protocols.
Cavinato, Marianna. "Verso la comprensione dello stato vegetativo e di minima coscienza." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423022.
Full textLe limitate evidenze e la fluttuazione dei comportamenti intenzionali neiin pazienti in stato di minima coscienza (SMC) richiedono la ricerca di un indice marcatore elettrofisiologico obiettivo del livello di coscienza. Nel presente studio, è stato mostrato un confronto tra potenziali evento-correlati (ERP) utilizzando diversi livelli di complessità di stimolo. Gli ERP sono stati registrati in diciassette pazienti, di cui sei in stato vegetativo (SV), 11 in SMC, e 10 controlli sani. I partecipanti sono stati sottoposti a tre paradigmi di diverso grado di complessità: toni puri, il nome proprio del soggetto verso toni puri, e verso altri nomi. Sono state riscontrate risposte corticali in tutti i pazienti in SMC, ed in 6 degli 11 pazienti in SV. I controlli sani ed i pazienti in SMC hanno mostrato un progressivo aumento della latenza dell’onda P300 in relazione al livello di complessità dello stimolo. Nessuna modulazione di latenza è stata osservata nei pazienti in SV. Questi risultati suggeriscono che la modulazione di latenza della P300 relativa a complessità dello stimolo può rappresentare un indice obiettivo dell’integrazione tra aree di elaborazione di ordine superiore, presupposto necessario per il recupero della coscienza. Un secondo passo è stato incoraggiato dal lavoro di Schiff e coll. (2007) che riportarono il miglioramento clinico di un paziente in SMC dopo stimolazione cerebrale profonda (DBS). Abbiamo studiato sei pazienti sottoponendoli ad uno studio di tipo ABA con alternanza tra stimolazione magnetica transcranica ripetitiva (rTMS) e stimolazione dei nervi periferici. Dopo stimolazione periferica, i pazienti non ha evidenziato variazioni dei quadric clinico, comportamentale o elettroencefalografico (EEG). Tuttavia, dopo la rTMS, un paziente manifestò un aumento della frequenza di specifici comportamenti coscienti, associato ad un incremento della potenza assoluta e relativa delle bande EEG alfa, beta e delta. Successivamente, è stato arruolato un campione più consistente di pazienti per riprodurre i primi incoraggianti risultati. Trenta pazienti in SV/SMC hanno partecipato ad uno studio controllato randomizzato che comportava l’utilizzo di stimoli transcranici con stimolazione transcranica a corrente continua (tDCS) e rTMS. I pazienti in SMC hanno mostrato un aumento di connettività fronto-parietale, che indica una complessa elaborazione delle informazioni sensoriali, ed una diminuzione della fluttuazione dell’arousal. Il quadro dei pazienti in SV rimase invariato. Questi risultati suggeriscono che la rTMS può migliorare le connessioni a lungo raggio tra remote aree corticali e promuovere, in qualche modo, il recupero di coscienza nei pazienti in SMC.
Yanamadala, Janakinadh. "Development of Human Body CAD Models and Related Mesh Processing Algorithms with Applications in Bioelectromagnetics." Digital WPI, 2016. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-dissertations/231.
Full textConcerto, Carmen. "Modulation of neuroplasticity in humans after acute intake of antidepressant, anxiolytic and adaptogenic herbs." Doctoral thesis, Università di Catania, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/4154.
Full textSOUZA, CARNEIRO MAIRA IZZADORA. "NEUROMODULATION OF MOTOR LEARNING IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND PATIENTS WITH NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/241229.
Full textNon-invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) techniques, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), have been increasingly used as tools for improving motor learning in healthy individuals. Efforts of the current neuroscientific field are now directed to the mechanistic understanding of NIBS tools with respect to their modulatory effects on different motor learning processes, among which the on-line learning (improvements occurring during practice), the retention and generalization of the learned skills. This investigation is also relevant for optimizing stimulation protocols. The enhancement effects of tDCS on motor learning have also guided the investigation of its therapeutic potential for the rehabilitation of motor disorders in neurological diseases. The present thesis aims at: (i) enriching current evidence regarding the clinical effectiveness of tDCS and rTMS as adjuvant interventions to augment the response of the motor system to behavioral trainings; (ii) exploring the role of alternative routes (via premotor and posterior parietal cortices), beyond the primary motor cortex, for improving motor learning in healthy humans and (iii) uncovering the potential of tDCS for the treatment of upper-limb motor disorders in children with cerebral palsy (CP), which represents one of the most recent field of investigation in NIBS clinical literature. Within this framework, I have performed four studies (a meta-analysis, and three empirical investigations). Results from Study 1 indicate that the quality of available evidence for the use of tDCS and TMS as add-on interventions to boost motor training effects in adult stroke patients is still low, although some indications for the most effective stimulation protocols for either rTMS and tDCS are emerging. Study 2 shows that, beyond the primary motor cortex, the typical tDCS target for facilitating motor learning, premotor cortex stimulation has also a merit, since it can selectively improve the generalization of motor learning to untrained skills, at least in healthy individuals. The last two studies show that in children with CP, motor learning abilities may be impaired, as compared to those of age-matched typically-developing children; motor learning deficits in CP depends on the type of corticospinal reorganization that follows a brain injury (Study 3). In this pediatric population, tDCS seems unable to enhance motor learning of the affected hand, at least when the stimulation is delivered in a single session (Study 4), suggesting that more intensive and prolonged stimulation protocols are required for improving the chronic motor dysfunctions featuring CP.
Filipova, Nina [Verfasser], and Alkomiet [Akademischer Betreuer] Hasan. "Humanphysiologische Korrelate für plastische Modulation verschiedener kortikaler Areale : eine experimentelle klinisch-neurophysiologische Studie mittels TMS, EEG und tDCS / Nina Filipova ; Betreuer: Alkomiet Hasan." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2018. http://d-nb.info/115987963X/34.
Full textAstolfi, Anna. "Terapie strumentali per il trattamento e il recupero del paziente post-ictus." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/13888/.
Full textPISONI, ALBERTO. "Investigating the neural correlates of language production by means of TDCS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/52583.
Full textWohlwend, Martin. "Investigation of an Exercise-Induced State of Hypofrontality : And its Potential Association with Central Fatigue." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for nevromedisin, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-16840.
Full textSilva, Nadia Regina Jardim da. "Efeito da melatonina e da estimulação transcraniana por corrente continua na metaplasticidade e limiar de dor : ensaio clínico, randomizado, crossover em sujeitos saudáveis." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/116799.
Full textBackground: Pain-induced neuronal plasticity involves multiple molecular interactions. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive method of brain stimulation has been used to address a variety pain conditions. Melatonin, new therapies pharmacological, used in different therapeutic as analgesic, anti-inflammatory and sedative effects. Interesting question is if their combination could result in additive or synergistic effect on cortical excitability measurements via transcranial stimulation parameters (TMS), pain threshold determined by quantitative sensory testing (QST) and BDNF serum levels. Objective: 1) Determine the relationship between BDNF serum levels and acute experimental pain response, neural substrates of this relationship by assessing transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-indexed cortical excitability and descending inhibitory response [Conditioned Pain Modulation, (CPM)] during CPM-TASK. 2) To test the effects combined intervention transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and melatonin on pain was assessed by quantitative and sensory testing and the conditional pain modulation (CPM) during CPM-TASK, cortical excitability, as assessed by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and on serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) level. METHODS: We enrolled 20 healthy males aged 18 to 40 years in a blinded, placebocontrolled, crossover, randomized clinical trial. They were divided into three groups: sublingual melatonin (0.25 mg/kg)+active-tDCS (n = 20), melatonin (0.25 mg/kg)+shamtDCS (n = 20), or sublingual placebo+sham-tDCS (n = 10). One session of anodal stimulation (2 mA, 20 min) was applied over the primary motor cortex. Blood sample was collected and cortical excitability parameters were determined by TMS, followed by psychophysical pain testing and descending inhibitory response [Conditioned Pain Modulation, (CPM)] during CPM-TASK. Results: Heat pain threshold (HPT) was inversely correlated with BDNF levels [Beta=-0.09, P=0.03)] and Intracortical Facilitation (ICF) (Beta=-1.11, P=0.01) and the efficiency of the descending pain inhibitory system (as indexed by CPM, Beta=- 1.11, P=0.04) was inversely correlated with BDNF levels. There was a significant difference in the heat pain threshold (°C) for melatonin+active-tDCS (mean difference: 4.86, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.9 to 8.63) and placebo+sham-tDCS (mean: 5.16, 95% CI: 0.84 to 8.36). There was no difference between melatonin+active-tDCS and melatonin+sham-tDCS (mean difference: 0.29, 95% CI: −3.72 to 4.23). Melatonin alone did not significantly affect cortical excitability, CPM task result, or serum BDNF level. Conclusions: These findings support that serum neuroplasticity mediators have an association with the cortical excitability pattern and its response to acute experimental pain in healthy males, clinically supporting the existence of a role in the pain modulation process which is possibly involved in the descending pain inhibitory system. Also findings support the beneficial effects of melatonin on acute experimental pain; however, its association with active-tDCS did not increase its effectiveness. Melatonin’s effects are likely not mediated by cortical or spinal centers given the lack of effects on cortical excitability and on the CPM task.
Williams, Petra S. "Neural Mechanisms of Task Failure During Sustained Submaximal Contractions." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1367330801.
Full textLommen, Jonathan Lyon Jacob. "Effects of Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation on Gait Initiation in People with Parkinson’s Disease." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39959.
Full textMisewitsch, Kristina. "Veränderte kortikale Plastizität und Konnektivität bei psychisch nicht erkrankten erstgradigen Angehörigen von Patienten mit einer Schizophrenie." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0003-C182-F.
Full textFritzsche, Georg. "Einfluss verschiedener transkranieller Stimulationsverfahren auf die kortikale Exzitabilität." Doctoral thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0006-B131-1.
Full textSturhan, Cornelia-Carmen. "Akute Auswirkungen transkranieller Gleichstromstimulation auf Parameter kortikaler Erregbarkeit." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-000D-EFE2-3.
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