SynthesisNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2024
The effects of rTMS on motor recovery after stroke: a systematic review of fMRI studies.
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- Effectiveness of dual-site transcranial magnetic stimulation on motor function and activities of daily living in stroke patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Clinical Study on the Combined Therapy of Sinew Acupuncture and Low-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Hemiplegic Shoulder Pain.Brain and behavior · 2025Trial
- Effect of Regional Brain Activity Following Repeat Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in SCA3: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Trial
- Neural correlates of fine motor grasping skills: Longitudinal insights into motor cortex activation using fNIRS.Brain and behavior · 2024Trial
- NMDA Receptor Mediated Mechanisms in the Post-Stroke Brain: From Physiology to Pathology.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Toward Precision Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Medicine: Integrating Molecular, Imaging, and Computational Biomarkers for Functional Outcome Prediction.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- The Potential of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy as a Therapeutic Tool Following a Stroke (Review).Sovremennye tekhnologii v meditsine · 2025Review
- Research progress and clinical application of functional magnetic resonance imaging in otolaryngology-head and neck diseases.Frontiers in neurologyReview
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Abstract
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been widely used in motor rehabilitation after stroke, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to investigate the neural mechanisms of motor recovery during stroke therapy. However, there is no review on the mechanism of rTMS intervention for motor recovery after stroke based on fMRI explicitly. We aim to reveal and summarize the neural mechanism of the effects of rTMS on motor function after stroke as measured by fMRI. We carefully performed a literature search using PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library databases from their respective inceptions to November 2022 to identify any relevant randomized controlled trials. Researchers independently screened the literature, extracted data, and qualitatively described the included studies. Eleven studies with a total of 420 poststroke patients were finally included in this systematic review. A total of 338 of those participants received fMRI examinations before and after rTMS intervention. Five studies reported the effects of rTMS on activation of brain regions, and four studies reported results related to brain functional connectivity (FC). Additionally, five studies analyzed the correlation between fMRI and motor evaluation. The neural mechanism of rTMS in improving motor function after stroke may be the activation and FCs of motor-related brain areas, including enhancement of the activation of motor-related brain areas in the affected hemisphere, inhibition of the activation of motor-related brain areas in the unaffected hemisphere, and changing the FCs of intra-hemispheric and inter-hemispheric motor networks.
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