Enhancement of human cognitive performance using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
By Bruce Luber, Sarah H. Lisanby. NeuroImage, 2013
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Here we review the usefulness of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in modulating cortical networks in ways that might produce performance enhancements in healthy human subjects. To date over sixty studies have reported significant improvements in speed and accuracy in a variety of tasks involving perceptual, motor, and executive processing. Two basic categories of enhancement mechanisms are suggested by this literature: direct modulation of a cortical region or network that leads to more efficient processing, and addition-by-subtraction, which is disruption of processing which competes or distracts from task performance. Potential applications of TMS cognitive enhancement, including research into cortical function, rehabilitation therapy in neurological and psychiatric illness, and accelerated skill acquisition in healthy individuals are discussed, as are methods of optimizing the magnitude and duration of TMS-induced performance enhancement, such as improvement of targeting through further integration of brain imaging with TMS. One technique, combining multiple sessions of TMS with concurrent TMS/task performance to induce Hebbian-like learning, appears to be promising for prolonging enhancement effects. While further refinements in the application of TMS to cognitive enhancement can still be made, and questions remain regarding the mechanisms underlying the observed effects, this appears to be a fruitful area of investigation that may shed light on the basic mechanisms of cognitive function and their therapeutic modulation.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology
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- Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert Guidelines (2020, unknown): “decrease in RT) and the stimulation protocol (single pulse, low/high frequency/TBS) (Luber and Lisanby, 2014).”
- Tuning out emotional distractors by tuning in theta rhythm: improving visual working memory using transcranial magnetic stimulation (2026, unknown): “Enhancing specific EEG rhythms linked to cognitive function with rhTMS can lead to cognitive improvements (Luber and Lisanby 2014), such as increasing theta rhythm in WM paradigms (for review, see Albouy et al .”
- Inferring Causality from Noninvasive Brain Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience (2020, background): “…paradoxical facilitation may also arise from NIBS-induced inhibition of task-irrelevant areas that compete for resources (“addition-by-subtraction” [Luber & Lisanby, 2014]) or the disruption of distracting stimulus elements, facilitating task-relevant processing (Walsh, Ellison, Battelli, &…”