Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Mental Representation Techniques for the Treatment of Stroke Patients

Active rTMS in 10 daily sessions in two weeks of sequential application of: 90% RMT at 1Hz, 1000 pulses/day, 25s inter train on M1 of lesioned hemisphere and 90% RMT at 10Hz, 1000 pulses/day, 50s inter train on M1 of healthy hemisphere.

It will consist of a combination of the bilateral rTMS protocol and the MI-neurofeedback training. During this therapy, the patient received 10 consecutive daily sessions of bilateral rTMS (Monday to Friday, two weeks), with the same stimulation parameters as another therapy, and 12 non-consecutive sessions of MI-neurofeedback (three times a week for four weeks). The first 6 MI-neurofeedback sessions were carried out after bilateral stimulation with rTMS (i.e., rTMS as a priming method during the first two weeks), and the last 6 sessions, without rTMS as prior priming during the last two weeks.