J Rösler1, B Niraula1, V Strack1, A Zdunczyk1, S Schilt1, P Savolainen2, P Lioumis3, J Mäkelä3, P Vajkoczy1, D Frey1, T Picht4. 1. Department of Neurosurgery, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany. 2. Nexstim Ltd., Helsinki, Finland; Neuroscience Unit, Institute of Biomedicine/Physiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 3. BioMag Laboratory, HUS Medical Imaging Center, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, Helsinki, Finland. 4. Department of Neurosurgery, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: thomas.picht@charite.de.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This article explores the feasibility of a novel repetitive navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rnTMS) system and compares language mapping results obtained by rnTMS in healthy volunteers and brain tumor patients. METHODS: Fifteen right-handed healthy volunteers and 50 right-handed consecutive patients with left-sided gliomas were examined with a picture-naming task combined with time-locked rnTMS (5-10 Hz and 80-120% resting motor threshold) applied over both hemispheres. Induced errors were classified into four psycholinguistic types and assigned to their respective cortical areas according to the coil position during stimulation. RESULTS: In healthy volunteers, language disturbances were almost exclusively induced in the left hemisphere. In patients errors were more frequent and induced at a comparative rate over both hemispheres. Predominantly dysarthric errors were induced in volunteers, whereas semantic errors were most frequent in the patient group. CONCLUSION: The right hemisphere's increased sensitivity to rnTMS suggests reorganization in language representation in brain tumor patients. SIGNIFICANCE: rnTMS is a novel technology for exploring cortical language representation. This study proves the feasibility and safety of rnTMS in patients with brain tumor.
OBJECTIVE: This article explores the feasibility of a novel repetitive navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rnTMS) system and compares language mapping results obtained by rnTMS in healthy volunteers and brain tumorpatients. METHODS: Fifteen right-handed healthy volunteers and 50 right-handed consecutive patients with left-sided gliomas were examined with a picture-naming task combined with time-locked rnTMS (5-10 Hz and 80-120% resting motor threshold) applied over both hemispheres. Induced errors were classified into four psycholinguistic types and assigned to their respective cortical areas according to the coil position during stimulation. RESULTS: In healthy volunteers, language disturbances were almost exclusively induced in the left hemisphere. In patients errors were more frequent and induced at a comparative rate over both hemispheres. Predominantly dysarthric errors were induced in volunteers, whereas semantic errors were most frequent in the patient group. CONCLUSION: The right hemisphere's increased sensitivity to rnTMS suggests reorganization in language representation in brain tumorpatients. SIGNIFICANCE: rnTMS is a novel technology for exploring cortical language representation. This study proves the feasibility and safety of rnTMS in patients with brain tumor.
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