Enhancing analogic reasoning with rTMS over the left prefrontal cortex

B. Boroojerdi; M. Phipps; L. Kopylev; C. M. Wharton; Leonardo G. Cohen; Jordan Grafman

doi:10.1212/WNL.56.4.526

Enhancing analogic reasoning with rTMS over the left prefrontal cortex

B. Boroojerdi, M. Phipps, L. Kopylev, C. M. Wharton, Leonardo G. Cohen, Jordan Grafman^*

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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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The authors utilized repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in 16 normal volunteers to investigate the role of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) in analogic reasoning. rTMS over the left and right PFC, over the left motor cortex, and sham stimulation over the left PFC were administered during memory and analogic reasoning conditions, rTMS over the left PFC led to a significant reduction in response times only in the analogy condition without affecting accuracy. These results indicate that the left PFC is relevant for analogic reasoning and that rTMS applied to the PFC can speed up solution time.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	526-528
Number of pages	3
Journal	Neurology
Volume	56
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.56.4.526
State	Published - Feb 27 2001

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