Web Activity 7.6 Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

In this brief clip from a BBC documentary, a journalist serves as a volunteer to demonstrate the disruptive effects of TMS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMR_T0mM7Pc

Click here to view a transcript of this video.

In the following demo, you’ll see how TMS applied to the motor cortex can be used to automatically trigger certain movements:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkNbYHu_STU

 

The next detailed video walks you through the techniques and logic used in a research study led by Rikka Möttönen. In this study, TMS is applied to the lip motor cortex to study how disrupting this area of the brain can impair people’s ability to discriminate speech sounds:

https://www.jove.com/video/51665/stimulating-lip-motor-cortex-with-transcranial-magnetic