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Título del libro: Sleep, Cognition And Emotion: From Molecules To Social Ecology
Título del capítulo: Effect of transcranial magneticstimulation on sleep and behavioraldisorders in Patients with Autism

Autores UNAM:
FRUCTUOSO AYALA GUERRERO;
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Año de publicación:
2020
Palabras clave:

Autism spectrum disorder; Brain plasticity; Neuropsychiatric disorders; Sleep; Transcranial magnetic stimulation


Resumen:

The Transcraneal Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a recently implemented non¬invasive therapeutic procedure that consists of brain stimulation through the induction of a magnetic field that causes minimal electrical discharges in determined cerebral áreas. The brain stimulation may be applied under three different modalities: 1) a single pulse, 2) paired pulses and 3) trains of pulses. Under this last modality, pulses may be applied unilaterally or bilaterally at a high (>1 Hz) or low (<1 Hz) frequency on determined cerebral áreas. This stimulation technique has had a wide variety of applications for treating depressive disorders in adults, with positive results in pharmaco-resistent patients. It is being currently utilized in children that present neuropsychiatric disorders such as Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), affective disorders, schizophrenia, etc. with variable results. It is considered that the positive effects exerted by the TMS are related to the brain plasticity. © 2020 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.


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