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Contemporary TMS Motor Mapping in Neurorehabilitation Workshop Archive

Contemporary TMS Motor Mapping in Neurorehabilitation: A virtual workshop

Motor mapping using transcranial magnetic stimulation within and between hemispheres, provides insight on control of movement in health and disease, and improves precision for neuromodulation targeting. Despite several decades of work, there is no consensus on experimental mapping protocol, analysis methods and interpretation. Presented on June 25, 2021, via Zoom, this workshop covered practical and theoretical content on motor mapping, with the latest technological advancements, and included preclinical, healthy human, and clinical content. The National Center of Neuromodulation for Rehabilitation is pleased to be able to share these recordings of the workshop sessions with our community!

Workshop Chair: Dylan Edwards, Ph.D.

Opening and introduction

Dylan Edwards, Ph.D. (Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, US) – Introduction, workshop objective 

Gary Thickbroom, Ph.D. (Australia; Weill Cornell Medicine, US) – TMS Mapping: A Retrospective (1993–2006) 

Preclinical to Human

Edmund Hollis II, Ph.D. (Burke Neurological Institute, US) – Corticospinal Remodeling and Functional Recovery in the Mouse 

Randolph Nudo, Ph.D. (University of Kansas Medical Center, US) – Cortical Electrical Stimulation Mapping in Neurorecovery (Non-Human Primate) 

Aapo Nummenmaa, Ph.D. (Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, US) – Computational Modeling for Enhanced Non-Invasive Mapping with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation 

Kathleen Friel, Ph.D. (Burke Neurological Institute, US) – Panel discussion facilitator 

Applied TMS Mapping 1

Tomoko Kitago, M.D./Dylan Edwards, Ph.D. (Burke Neurological Institute/Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, US) – Longitudinal Mapping in Human Motor Recovery 

Nathaniel Mayer, M.D./Dylan Edwards, Ph.D. (Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, US) – Poly-EMG of the Upper Limb and Functional Context 

Melissa Tsuboyama, M.D. (Boston Children’s Hospital, US) – TMS Motor Mapping in Epilepsy 

Steve Cramer, M.D. (University of California, Los Angeles, US) – Two TMS Topics: Genetics and Response to a Challenge 

Heidi Schambra, M.D. (NYU Langone Health, US) – Panel discussion facilitator 

Applied TMS Mapping 2

Teresa Kimberley, Ph.D., PT (Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, US) – Mapping Corticobulbar Pathways 

Teresa Kimberley, Ph.D., PT (Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, US) – Performing TMS in Patients with Acute Stroke 

Teresa Kimberley, Ph.D., PT (Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, US) – The [Secret] Procedure of Finding the Hotspot 

George Wittenberg, M.D., Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh, US) – Mapping Reaching Movements in and out of a Robot 

H. Branch Coslett, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania, US) – Surveillance Attention: Evidence from MEPs and Phosphene Thresholds 

Shailesh Kantak, Ph.D., PT (Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, US) – Panel discussion facilitator 

Methods, Modeling, Technology

Yordan Todorov - (MagVenture, US/Denmark) – Human TMS Coil Design 

Aapo Nummenmaa, Ph.D. - (Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, US) – Technical Development of Multichannel Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Arrays

Michael Gerber/Alisdair McLean - (City College of New York, US) – NeuroMeasure: A Software for Analyzing Cortical Motor Maps 

Vadim Nikulin, Ph.D./Maria Nazarova, M.D., Ph.D. - (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany/ Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience) – Multi-Muscle TMS Mapping

Roch Comeau, Ph.D. - (Rogue Research, Canada) – Performing a TMS Study Using Navigation and Robotics 

Ela Plow, Ph.D., PT (Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, US) – Panel discussion facilitator