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Neuromodulation research group

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01.01.2017 -
Department of Technical Physics, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology
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Neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation, where a coil is used to target quickly changing magnetic field onto the cortex of the brain to induce electric field, which in turn activates the neurons of the cortex. Consequenly, muscle contraction may follow the stimulation. Activation of the cortical neurons can be modelled and studied. When mapping the cortical representation of a muscle, electric field modeling can be utilized to quantify the representation size and location. Combining different sensory stimulations in real-time with transcranial magnetic stimulation to effectively modulate the excitability of the brain is one of one of our primary research focuses.

Our research focuses on the neuromodulation, functional imaging, theoretical assessment and biomechanical measurement of the neuromuscular function connecting the human brains to motion, and understanding multisensory effects on the excitability of the brain. Our main focus is in the quantitative analysis motor function, and motor cortical control of muscle action. In addition, we have a general focus on methodological development of the navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation methodology, technology and response analysis tools to improve the accuracy and applicability of mapping the motor function as well as increasing the efficiency of neuromodulation treatments with navigated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).

The key methods we apply and develop are navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation, electromyography, electroencephalography (TMS-EEG), modeling of neural function, motion analysis, radiological imaging and biomechanical tests and modeling. We actively collaborate with other national and international research groups. Our research group includes members who are specialists in medicine, physics and biomedical engineering. Neuromodulation research group also operates as a member of the ”Musculoskeletal diseases” research community.

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ATH-tool available for download

ATH-tool can now be downloaded for Android-systems via the link below:

ATHtoolv44.apk

See the original article, and please cite upon use.

https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2019.2925904

 

MEPFeatX—automated feature extraction of motor-evoked potentials in transcranial magnetic stimulation

MEPFeatX is made openly available via GitHub: https://github.com/NeuromodulationUEF/MEPFeatX

and sample dataset are available here: https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/30114

Please cite the original article upon use.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2024.1415257/abstract

 

 

 

 

Keywords

biomechanics brain brain imaging brain research clinical neurophysiology motion analysis motor-evoked potential muscle neuroimaging plasticity

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Other group members

  • Jusa Reijonen / Post-Doctoral researcher and Specializing medical physicist
  • Minna Pitkänen / Post-Doctoral researcher
  • Nils Danner / Senior researcher, Neurosurgeon
  • Jani Sirkka / PhD student
  • Mervi Könönen / Docent
  • Jari Karhu / Docent
  • Jelena Hypponen / MD, PhD, Academy Fellow
  • Olli Löfberg / MD, PhD, Post-doctoral researcher
  • Anna-Leena Voutilainen / Study Nurse
  • Joel Naukkarinen / PhD Student
  • Zunaira Jamil / PhD Student

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