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Chen by the current flow. It is important to note that the induced current in the brain tissue is opposite to that in the coil, with a concentric electrical field being weakest in the center of the coil, and there is no single “hot spot” where the field is stronger than anywhere else (Fig. 1c) [3]. Based on this simple round TMS coil, it is therefore misleading to refer to TMS as “focal” as it cannot be brought to a focus. However, depending on the placement of the coil, there are selective local effects on the brain tissue underneath it.

TMS pulse to the occipital probe can suppress visual perception when it is applied 80–120 ms after stimulus presentation on three subjects using a circular coil. (From Amassian et al. [22], with permission) Fig. 4. Mean responses of all subjects (n = 8) to combined stimulation of visual cortical areas V5 and V1. The V5–V1 TMS asynchrony is displayed on the x-axis: Negative values indicate that V1 received TMS prior to V5, and positive values indicate that V1 was stimulated after V5. The subjects made four judgments: (1) elicited phosphene was present and moving; (2) phosphene was present, but subject not confident to judge whether it was moving; (3) phosphene was present but stationary; (4) no phosphene was observed.

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