Inje University of Medicine, Haeundae Paik Hospital

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Behavior

Neuronavigation-guided Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Aphasia

Woo-Jin Kim¹, Soo Jung Hahn², Won-Seok Kim², Nam-Jong Paik²

¹Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Inje University of Medicine, Haeundae Paik Hospital, ²Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital

This study is designed to test the hypothesis that neuronavigational system-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation has higher accuracy for targeting the intended target as demonstrated by eliciting a greater degree of virtual aphasia in healthy subjects, measured by delay in reaction time to picture naming.