Journal article
Probing phase- and frequency-dependent characteristics of cortical interneurons using combined transcranial alternating current stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation
Journal of neurophysiology, Vol.117(6), pp.2085-2087
06/01/2017
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00060.2017
PMCID: PMC5454463
PMID: 28228580
Abstract
Paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and peripheral stimulation combined with TMS can be used to study cortical interneuronal circuitry. By combining these procedures with concurrent transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), Guerra and colleagues recently showed that different cortical interneuronal populations are differentially modulated by the phase and frequency of tACS-imposed oscillations (Guerra A, Pogosyan A, Nowak M, Tan H, Ferreri F, Di Lazzaro V, Brown P. Cerebral Cortex 26: 3977-2990, 2016). This work suggests that different cortical interneuronal populations can be characterized by their phase and frequency dependency. Here we discuss how combining TMS and tACS can reveal the frequency at which cortical interneuronal populations oscillate, the neuronal origins of behaviorally relevant cortical oscillations, and how entraining cortical oscillations could potentially treat brain disorders.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Probing phase- and frequency-dependent characteristics of cortical interneurons using combined transcranial alternating current stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Creators
- Sara J. Hussain - National Institutes of HealthNivethida Thirugnanasambandam - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of neurophysiology, Vol.117(6), pp.2085-2087
- DOI
- 10.1152/jn.00060.2017
- PMID
- 28228580
- PMCID
- PMC5454463
- NLM abbreviation
- J Neurophysiol
- ISSN
- 0022-3077
- eISSN
- 1522-1598
- Publisher
- Amer Physiological Soc
- Number of pages
- 3
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Health, Sport, and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984948045302771
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