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Theta burst stimulation improves visuo-spatial attention in a patient with traumatic brain injury

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Recent studies showed that non-invasive brain stimulation methods, such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can improve the symptoms of neglect in stroke patients. Here, we adopted this approach to improve visuo-spatial deficit in a patient with traumatic brain injury (TBI) that showed important symptoms of visuo-spatial neglect. We found that continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) applied over the left posterior parietal cortex (PPC) induced a clinical improvement of cognitive disorder associated to a functional changes of fronto-parietal network as assessed by means of TMS and resting state fMRI.

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  1. Laboratorio di Neurologia Clinica e Comportamentale, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Via Ardeatina, 306, 00179, Rome, Italy

    Sonia Bonnì, Chiara Mastropasqua, Marco Bozzali, Carlo Caltagirone & Giacomo Koch

  2. Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università Degli Studi di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

    Carlo Caltagirone & Giacomo Koch

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Bonnì, S., Mastropasqua, C., Bozzali, M. et al. Theta burst stimulation improves visuo-spatial attention in a patient with traumatic brain injury. Neurol Sci 34, 2053–2056 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-013-1412-y

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