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Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Planning Epilepsy Surgery

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Navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) is increasingly used for noninvasive functional mapping of eloquent cortical areas in preoperative evaluation for brain surgery. Reliability of nTMS has been studied in healthy populations. Here we describe the methods and protocols for nTMS mapping of motor- and language-related cortical areas and describe results of nTMS in patients going through work-ups for epilepsy surgery. Clinical evidence indicates that nTMS mapping is a safe and useful tool in planning epilepsy surgery.

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  1. Temerty Centre for Therapeutic Brain Intervention, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Pantelis Lioumis

  2. BioMag Laboratory, HUS Medical Imaging Center, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

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Lioumis, P., Mäkelä, J.P. (2019). Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Planning Epilepsy Surgery. In: Fountas, K., Kapsalaki, E. (eds) Epilepsy Surgery and Intrinsic Brain Tumor Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95918-4_6

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