ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2020
Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Fields Do Not Affect LTP-Like Plasticity in Healthy Humans.
Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04836325 (Effect of Transcranial Static Magnetic Field Stimulation Over the Primary Motor Cortex in Fibromyalgia Syndrome), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Effect of Transcranial Static Magnetic Field Stimulation Over the Primary Motor Cortex in Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study
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- Assessment of Individual Exposure to Multiple Pollutants (Noise, Particulate Matter, and Extremely Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields) Related to Daily Life Microenvironments in the Brussels Capital Region: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- The role of neurophysiological tools in the evaluation of ischemic stroke evolution: a narrative review.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
- Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields promote cognitive function and hippocampal neurogenesis of rats with cerebral ischemia.Neural regeneration research · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionSeveral studies explored the biological effects of extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MFs)
aimsTo evaluate whether ELF-MFs affect the propensity of the human cortex to undergo LTP-like plasticity.
methodsWe designed a randomized, single-blind, sham-controlled, cross-over study on 10 healthy subjects. Cortical plasticity was induced by intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS) before and after 45-min ELF-MFs (75 Hz; 1.8 mT) or sham exposure and was estimated by measuring the changes of motor evoked potentials (MEP) amplitude before and after each iTBS.
resultsNo adverse events were reported. No significant effects of ELF-MFs on cortical plasticity were found.
conclusionWhole-brain exposure to ELF-MFs (75 Hz; 1.8 mT) is safe and does not seem to significantly affect LTP-like plasticity in human motor cortex.
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