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Interhemispheric compensation: a hypothesis of TMS-induced effects on language-related areas
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Eur Psychiatry. 2008 Jun;23(4):281-8. doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2007.10.012. Epub 2008 May 2.
Interhemispheric compensation: a hypothesis of TMS-induced effects on language-related areas.
Andoh J1, Martinot JL.
INSERM U797, Research Unit-Neuroimaging and Psychiatry, Université Paris-Sud, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, 4 place du Général Leclerc, Orsay, France.
Abstract
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) applied over brain regions responsible for language processing is used to curtail potentially auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia patients and to investigate the functional organisation of language-related areas.
Variability of effects is, however, marked across studies and between subjects. Furthermore, the mechanisms of action of rTMS are poorly understood.
Here, we reviewed different factors related to the structural and functional organisation of the brain that might influence rTMS-induced effects.
Then, by analogy with aphasia studies, and the plastic-adaptive changes in both the left and right hemispheres following aphasia recovery, a hypothesis is proposed about rTMS mechanisms over language-related areas (e.g. Wernicke, Broca).
We proposed that the local interference induced by rTMS in language-related areas might be analogous to aphasic stroke and might lead to a functional reorganisation in areas connected to the virtual lesion for language recovery.
PMID: 18455371
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