ReviewFrontiers in neural circuits2016
How Does Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Influence Glial Cells in the Central Nervous System?
Review in Frontiers in neural circuits, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.
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- Repetitive deep TMS in alcohol dependent patients halts progression of white matter changes in early abstinence.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Trial
- The Role of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease: A Narrative Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The Concomitant Effect of the Antiepileptic Drug Lacosamide and rTMS on an SH-SY5Y Model of Neuronal Excitability.Neurology international · 2025Article
- Low-Frequency rTMS and Diazepam Exert Synergistic Effects on the Excitability of an SH-SY5Y Model of Epileptiform Activity.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- On the Relation Between the Interstimulus Intervals and Multi-Muscle nTMS Motor Mapping.Brain topography · 2025Article
- Sensory neurostimulation promotes stress resilience with frequency-specificity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Transcranial Optogenetic Stimulation Promotes Corticospinal Tract Axon Regeneration to Repair Spinal Cord Injury by Activating the JAK2/STAT3 Pathway.Neurospine · 2025Article
- The neurobiological foundation of effective repetitive transcranial magnetic brain stimulation in Alzheimer's disease.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Review
- Personalised transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant depression, depression with comorbid anxiety and negative symptoms of schizophrenia: a narrative review.Singapore medical journal · 2024Review
- Navigating the Neuroimmunomodulation Frontier: Pioneering Approaches and Promising Horizons-A Comprehensive Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Intrinsic Plasticity Mechanisms of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2024Review
- Sustained Systemic Antioxidative Effects of Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation beyond Neurodegeneration: Implications in Therapy in 6-Hydroxydopamine Model of Parkinson's Disease.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Immediate effect of quadri-pulse stimulation on human brain microstructures and functions.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Boosting Psychotherapy With Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: The Whys and Wherefores of Modulating Neural Plasticity to Promote Therapeutic Change.Neural plasticity · 2024Review
- Evaluation of microglia activation related markers following a clinical course of TBS: A non-human primate study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Contribution of glial cells to the neuroprotective effects triggered by repetitive magnetic stimulation: a systematic review.Neural regeneration research · 2024Review
- Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) triggers dose-dependent homeostatic rewiring in recurrent neuronal networks.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
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- Double-target neural circuit-magnetic stimulation improves motor function in spinal cord injury by attenuating astrocyte activation.Neural regeneration research · 2023Article
- Microglial Cytokines Mediate Plasticity Induced by 10 Hz Repetitive Magnetic Stimulation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is widely used in the clinic, and while it has a direct effect on neuronal excitability, the beneficial effects experienced by patients are likely to include the indirect activation of other cell types. Research conducted over the past two decades has made it increasingly clear that a population of non-neuronal cells, collectively known as glia, respond to and facilitate neuronal signaling. Each glial cell type has the ability to respond to electrical activity directly or indirectly, making them likely cellular effectors of TMS. TMS has been shown to enhance adult neural stem and progenitor cell (NSPC) proliferation, but the effect on cell survival and differentiation is less certain. Furthermore there is limited information regarding the response of astrocytes and microglia to TMS, and a complete paucity of data relating to the response of oligodendrocyte-lineage cells to this treatment. However, due to the critical and yet multifaceted role of glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS), the influence that TMS has on glial cells is certainly an area that warrants careful examination.
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