Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the cerebellum

Biomedical Papers

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-139

  Minks, Eduard ^a   Kopickova, Marie ^a   Marecek, Radek ^a   Streitova, Hana ^a   Bares, Martin ^a  

^a ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Intracortical facilitation; Intracortical inhibition; rTMS; TMS; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955523574     PISSN: 12138118     EISSN: 12138118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5507/bp.2010.020     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Daskalakis ZJ, Paradiso GO, Christensen BK, Fitzgerald PB, Gunraj C, Chen R. Exploring the connectivity between the cerebellum and motor cortex in humans. J Physiol 2004; 557.2: 689-700.
2. Bares M, Lungu O, Liu T, Waechter T, Gomez CM, Ashe J. Impaired predictive motor timing in patients with cerebellar disorders. Exp Brain Res 2007; 180(2):355-365.
3. Bares M, Lungu OV, Husarova I, Gescheidt T. Predictive Motor Timing Performance Dissociates Between Early Diseases of the Cerebellum and Parkinson's Disease. Cerebellum 2010; 9(1):124- 135.
4. Husarova I, Bares M. Ucast cerebella na kognitivnych a nemotorickych funkciach v obraze funkcnej magnetickej rezonancie. Neurol. pro praxi 2008; 9:236-239.
5. Ohyama T, Nores WL, Murphy M, Mauk MD. What the cerebellum computes. Trends Neurosci 2003; 26(4):222-227.
6. Smith AK, Ploghaus A. Cerebellar responses during anticipation of noxious stimuli in subjects recovered from depression. Br J Psychiatr 2002; 181:411-415.
7. Speer AM, Kimbrell TA, Wassermann EM, D Repella J, Willis MW, Herscovitch P, Post RM. Opposite effects of high and low frequency rTMS on regional brain activity in depressed patients. Biol Psychiatry 2000; 48:1133-1141.
8. Koch G, Oliveri M, Torriero S, Salerno S, Gerfo EL, Caltagirone C. Repetitive TMS of cerebellum nterferes with millisecond time processing. Exp Brain Res 2007; 179:291-299.
9. Andreasen NC, Nopoulos P, O'Leary DS, Miller DD, Wassink T, Flaum M. Defining the phenotype of schizophrenia: cognitive dysmetria and its neural mechanisms. Biol Psychiatry 1999; 46:908-920.
10. Bares M. Nove trendy v transkraniálni magneticke stimulaci. Neurol. pro praxi 2008; 9:79-82.
11. Lomarev MP, Kanchana S, Bara-Jimenez W, Iyer M, Wassermann EM, Hallett M. Placebo-Controlled Study of rTMS for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorders 2006; 21:325-331.
12. Kopecek M, Bares M. Repetitivní transkranialni magneticka stimulace (rTMS) v lecbe deprese. Prehled publikovanych studii. Psychiatrie 2004; 8(2):117-132.
13. Bares M, Kanovsky P, Dufek J. a kolektiv. Transkranialni magneticka stimulace. Brno: Narodni centrum osetrovatelstvi a nelekarskych zdravotnickych oboru v Brne; 2003.
14. Speer AM, Willis MW, Herscovitch P, Daube-Witherspoon M, Shelton JR, Benson BE, Post RM, Wassermann EM. Intensitydependent regional cerebral blood flow during 1-Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in healthy volunteers studied with H215O positron emission tomography: Effects of primary motor cortex rTMS. Biol Psychiatry 2003; 54:818-825.
15. Bares M, Kanovsky P, Rektor I, Hortova H. Intracortical inhibition and facilitation are impaired in early Parkinson's disease patients - a paired TMS study. Eur J Neurol 2003; 10:385-389.
16. Kanovsky P, Bares M, Streitova H, Klajblova H, Daniel P, Rektor I. Abnormalities of cortical excitability and cortical inhibition in cervical dystonia. Evidence from somatosensory evoked potentials and paired transcranial magnetic stimulation. J Neurol 2003; 250:42-50.
17. Bares M, Kanovsky P, Rektor I. Disturbed intracortical excitability in early Parkinson's disease is L-DOPA dose related: A prospective 12-month paired TMS study. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2007; 13(8):489-494.
18. Daskalakis ZJ, Christensen BK, Fitzgerald PB, Fountain SI, Chen R. Reduced cerebellar inhibition in schizophrenia: a preliminary study. Am J Psychiatry 2005; 162(6):1203-1205.
19. Nakamura H, Kitagawa H, Kawaguchi Y, Tsuji H. Intracortical facilitation and inhibition after transcranial magnetic stimulation in conscious humans. J Physiol 1997; 498:817-823.
20. Kujirai T, Caramia MD, Rothwell JC, Day BL, Thompson PD, Ferbert A, Wroe S, Asselman P, Marsden CD. Corticocortical inhibition in human motor cortex. J Physiol 1993; 471:501-519.
21. Valls-Sole J, Pascual-Leone A, Wassermann EM, Hallett M. Human motor evoked responses to paired transcranial magnetic stimuli. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1992; 85:355-364.
22. Wassermann EM, Samii A, Mercuri B, Ikoma K, Oddo D, Grill SE, et al. Responses to paired transcranial magnetic stimuli in resting, active, and recently activated muscle. Exp Brain Res 1996; 109:158-163.
23. Oliveri M, Koch G, Torriero S, Caltagirone C. Increased facilitation of the primary motor cortex following 1 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the contralateral cerebellum in normal humans. Neurosci Lett 2005; 376(3):188-193.
24. Ugawa Y, Uesaka Y, Terao Y, Hanajima R, Kanazawa I. Magnetic stimulation over the cerebellum in humans. Ann Neurol 1995; 37(6):703-713.
25. Pinto AD, Chen R. Suppression of the motor cortex by magnetic stimulation of the cerebellum. Exp Brain Res 2001; 140(4):505-510.
26. Torriero S, Oliveri M, Koch G, Caltagirone C, Petrosini L. Interference of left and right cerebellar rTMS with procedural learning. J Cogn Neurosci 2004; 16(9):1605-1611.
27. PubMed.gov U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health (2009). Available from: [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/]; 26.11.2009.
28. Miall RC, Christensen LO. The effect of rTMS over the cerebellum in normal human volunteers on peg-board movement performance. Neurosci Lett 2004; 371(2-3):185-189.
29. Miall RC, King D. State estimation in the cerebellum. Cerebellum 2008; 7(4):572-586.
30. Miall RC, Christensen LO, Cain O, Stanley J. Disruption of state estimation in the human lateral cerebellum. PLoS Biol 2007; 5(11):2733-2744.
31. Hashimoto M, Ohtsuka K. Transcranial magnetic stimulation over the posterior cerebellum during visually guided saccades in man. Brain 1995; 118 (5):1185-1193.
32. Ohtsuka K, Enoki T. Transcranial magnetic stimulation over the posterior cerebellum during smooth pursuit eye movements in man. Brain 1998; 121 (3):429-435.
33. Zangemeister WH, Nagel M. Transcranial magnetic stimulation over the cerebellum delays predictive head movements in the coordination of gaze. Acta Otolaryngol Suppl 2001; 545:140-144.
34. Nagel M, Zangemeister WH. The effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation over the cerebellum on the synkinesis of coordinated eye and head movements. J Neurol Sci 2003; 213(1-2):35-45.
35. Sakihara K, Yorifuji S, Ihara A, Izumi H, Kono K, Takahashi Y, Imaoka H, Ogino S. Transcranial magnetic stimulation over the cerebellum evokes late potential in the soleus muscle. Neurosci Res 2003; 46(2):257-262.
36. Lo YL, Fook-Chong S, Chan LL, Ong WY. Cerebellar control of motor activation and cancellation in humans: an electrophysiological study. Cerebellum 2009; 8(3):302-311.
37. Hiraoka K, Sugiyama K, Abe K.Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Over the Cerebellum on Triphasic Electromyographic Pattern. Int J Neurosci 2009; 119(10):1523-1537.
38. Del Olmo MF, Cheeran B, Koch G, Rothwell JC. Role of the cerebellum in externally paced rhythmic finger movements. J Neurophysiol 2007; 98(1):145-152.
39. Fierro B, Palermo A, Puma A, Francolini M, Panetta ML, Daniele O, Brighina F. Role of the cerebellum in time perception: a TMS study in normal subjects. J Neurol Sci 2007 263(1-2):107-112.
40. Desmond JE, Chen SH, Shieh PB. Cerebellar transcranial magnetic stimulation impairs verbal working memory. Ann Neurol 2005; 58(4):553-560.
41. Schutter DJ, van Honk J. An electrophysiological link between the cerebellum, cognition and emotion: frontal theta EEG activity to single-pulse cerebellar TMS. Neuroimage 2006; 33(4):1227-1231.
42. Gerschlager W, Christensen LO, Bestmann S, Rothwell JC. rTMS over the cerebellum can increase corticospinal excitability through a spinal mechanism involving activation of peripheral nerve fibres. Clin Neurophysiol 2002; 113(9):1435-1440.
43. Fierro B, Giglia G, Palermo A, Pecoraro C, Scalia S, Brighina F. Modulatory effects of 1 Hz rTMS over the cerebellum on motor cortex excitability. Exp Brain Res 2007; 176(3):440-447.
44. Shimizu H, Tsuda T, Shiga Y, Miyazawa K, Onodera Y, Matsuzaki M, Nakashima I, Furukawa K, Aoki M, Kato H, Yamazaki T, Itoyama Y. Therapeutic efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation for hereditary spinocerebellar degeneration. Tohoku J Exp Med 1999; 189(3):203-211.
45. Brighina F, Palermo A, Panetta ML, Daniele O, Aloisio A, Cosentino G, Fierro B. Reduced cerebellar inhibition in migraine with aura: a TMS study. Cerebellum 2009; 8(3):260-266.
46. Brighina F, Romano M, Giglia G, Saia V, Puma A, Giglia F, Fierro B. Effects of cerebellar TMS on motor cortex of patients with focal dystonia: a preliminary report. Exp Brain Res 2009; 192(4):651-656.
47. Lo YL, Fook-Chong S, Chan LL, Ong WY, Ratnagopal P. Electrophysiological evidence of cerebellar fiber system involvement in the Miller Fisher syndrome. J Neurol Sci 2010; 288(1- 2):49-53.
48. Satow T, Mima T, Hara H, Oga T, Ikeda A, Hashimoto N, Shibasaki H. Nausea as a complication of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the posterior fossa. Clin Neurophysiol 2002; 113(9):1441-1443.
49. Minks E, Marecek R, Pavlik T, Chroust K, Bares M. The effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the cerebellum on the upper limb performance in early Parkinson's disease - pilot study. Ces Slov Neurol N 2010; 73/106(1):32-36.