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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Prefrontal Cortex: A Complementary Approach to Investigate Human Long-Term Memory

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can noninvasively and focally stimulate the cerebral cortex, inducing a transient and safe interruption of brain function. Although its detailed mechanisms of action still need to be fully elucidated, it has been successfully applied to investigate encoding and retrieval phases during episodic long-term memory tasks, both in the visuospatial and verbal domains. The effects of rTMS are behaviorally measurable; therefore, it seems to be a good complementary approach to more traditional neuroimaging and electroencephalographic techniques for the investigation of the working brain.

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  1. Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Università di Siena, Policlinico le Scotte, Viale Bracci, I-53100, Siena, Italy

    Simone Rossi

  2. IRCCS S. Giovanni di Dio, Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy

    Carlo Miniussi, Paolo Maria Rossini & Claudio Babiloni

  3. Neurologia, Università Campus Biomedico, Roma, Italy

    Paolo Maria Rossini

  4. AFaR-Dipartimento Neuroscienze, Ospedale Fatebenefratelli Isola Tiberina, Roma, Italy

    Paolo Maria Rossini

  5. Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy

    Claudio Babiloni

  6. Centro di Neuroscienze Cognitive, Università Salute-Vita S. Raffaele, Milano, Italy

    Stefano Cappa

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Rossi, S., Miniussi, C., Rossini, P.M., Babiloni, C., Cappa, S. (2004). Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Prefrontal Cortex: A Complementary Approach to Investigate Human Long-Term Memory. In: Otani, S. (eds) Prefrontal Cortex: From Synaptic Plasticity to Cognition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-7949-4_12

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