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Selected Publications

Published 2024

  • Rösch, J., Emanuel Vetter, D., Baldassarre, A., Souza, V. H., Lioumis, P., Roine, T., Jooß, A., Baur, D., Kozák, G., Blair Jovellar, D., Vaalto, S., Romani, G. L., Ilmoniemi, R. J., & Ziemann, U. (2024). Individualized treatment of motor stroke: A perspective on open-loop, closed-loop and adaptive closed-loop brain state-dependent TMS. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, 158, 204–211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2023.10.004

  • Humaidan, D., Xu, J., Kirchhoff, M., Romani, G. L., Ilmoniemi, R. J., & Ziemann, U. (2024). Towards real-time EEG-TMS modulation of brain state in a closed-loop approach. Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, 158, 212–217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2023.12.006

  • Baur, D., Mahmoud, W., Zrenner, B., Zrenner, C., & Ziemann, U. (2024). Utilization of EEG brain state-dependent TMS for treatment of motor impairment in chronic stroke patients: a proof-of-principle trial. Clinical Neurophysiology, 159, e34.

  • Song, Y., Gordon, P. C., Metsomaa, J., Rostami, M., Belardinelli, P., & Ziemann, U. (2024). Evoked EEG Responses to TMS Targeting Regions Outside the Primary Motor Cortex and Their Test–Retest Reliability. Brain Topography, 37(1), 19-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-023-01018-y

  • Ermolova, M., Metsomaa, J., Belardinelli, P., Zrenner, C., & Ziemann, U. (2024). Blindly separated spontaneous network-level oscillations predict corticospinal excitability. Journal of neural engineering, 21(3), 10.1088/1741-2552/ad5404. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ad5404

  • Song, Y., Gordon, P. C., Roy, O., Metsomaa, J., Belardinelli, P., Rostami, M., & Ziemann, U. (2024). Involvement of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor-mediated cholinergic neurotransmission in TMS-EEG responses. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry, 111167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2024.111167

Selected Publications before 2024

  • Vetter, D. E., Zrenner, C., Belardinelli, P., Mutanen, T. P., Kozák, G., Marzetti, L., & Ziemann, U. (2023). Targeting motor cortex high-excitability states defined by functional connectivity with real-time EEG–TMS. NeuroImage, 284, 120427. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120427

  • Gordon, P. C., Song, Y. F., Jovellar, D. B., Rostami, M., Belardinelli, P., & Ziemann, U. (2023). Untangling TMS-EEG responses caused by TMS versus sensory input using optimized sham control and GABAergic challenge. The Journal of physiology, 601(10), 1981–1998. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP283986

  • Gordon, P. C., Song, Y., Jovellar, B., Belardinelli, P., & Ziemann, U. (2023). No evidence for interaction between TMS-EEG responses and sensory inputs. Brain stimulation, 16(1), 25–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2022.12.010

  • Gordon, P., Belardinelli, P., Stenroos, M., Ziemann, U., & Zrenner, C. (2022). Prefrontal theta phase-dependent rTMS-induced plasticity of cortical and behavioral responses in human cortex. Brain Stimulation, 15(2), 391-402. doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2022.02.006

  • Baur D, Ermolova M, Souza VH, Zrenner C, Ziemann U. Phase-amplitude coupling in high-gamma frequency range induces LTP-like plasticity in human motor cortex: EEG-TMS evidence. Brain Stimul. 2022 Nov-Dec;15(6):1508-1510. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2022.11.003. Epub 2022 Nov 17. PMID: 36402378.

  • Baur, D., Ermolova, M., Souza, V. H., Zrenner, C., & Ziemann, U. (2022). Phase-amplitude coupling in high-gamma frequency range induces LTP-like plasticity in human motor cortex: EEG-TMS evidence. Brain stimulation, 15(6), 1508–1510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2022.11.003

  • Zrenner, C., Belardinelli, P., Ermolova, M., Gordon, P. C., Stenroos, M., Zrenner, B., & Ziemann, U. (2022). µ-rhythm phase from somatosensory but not motor cortex correlates with corticospinal excitability in EEG-triggered TMS. Journal of neuroscience methods, 379, 109662.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2022.109662

  • Metsomaa, J., Belardinelli, P., Ermolova, M., Ziemann, U., & Zrenner, C. (2021). Causal decoding of individual cortical excitability states. Neuroimage, 245, 118652. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118652

  • Humaidan, D., Vetter, D., Metsomaa, J., Ermolova, M., & Ziemann, U. (2021). Reinforcement machine learning for closed-loop rTMS stimulation of brain networks. Brain Stimulation, 14(6), 1696. doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2021.10.346

  • Gordon, P. C., Jovellar, D. B., Song, Y., Zrenner, C., Belardinelli, P., Siebner, H. R., & Ziemann, U. (2021). Recording brain responses to TMS of primary motor cortex by EEG - utility of an optimized sham procedure. NeuroImage, 245, 118708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118708

  • Ermolova, M., Metsomaa, J., Zrenner, C., Kozák, G., Marzetti, L., & Ziemann, U. (2021). Spontaneous phase-coupling within cortico-cortical networks: How time counts for brain-state-dependent stimulation. Brain stimulation, 14(2), 404–406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2021.02.007

  • Baur, D., Galevska, D., Hussain, S., Cohen, L., Ziemann, U., & Zrenner, C. (2020). Induction of LTD-like corticospinal plasticity by low-frequency rTMS depends on pre-stimulus phase of sensorimotor μ-rhythm. Brain Stimulation, 13(6), 1580-1587. doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2020.09.005

  • Stefanou, M., Galevska, D., Zrenner, C., Ziemann, U., & Nieminen, J. (2020). Interhemispheric symmetry of µ-rhythm phase-dependency of corticospinal excitability. Scientific Reports, 10(1). doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64390-w

  • Zrenner, B., Zrenner, C., Gordon, P., Belardinelli, P., McDermott, E., & Soekadar, S. et al. (2020). Brain oscillation-synchronized stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in depression using real-time EEG-triggered TMS. Brain Stimulation, 13(1), 197-205. doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2019.10.007

  • Stefanou, M., Baur, D., Belardinelli, P., Bergmann, T., Blum, C., Gordon, P., Nieminen, J., Zrenner, B., Ziemann, U. and Zrenner, C., 2019. Brain State-dependent Brain Stimulation with Real-time Electroencephalography-Triggered Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (150). doi: 10.3791/59711

  • Baur, D., Hussain, S., Cohen, L., Ziemann, U. and Zrenner, C., (2019). The influence of ongoing μ-oscillation phase on the induction of LTD-like plasticity with 1 Hz rTMS. Brain Stimulation, 12(2), p.565. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2018.12.872

  • Zrenner, B., Gordon, P., Kempf, A., Belardinelli, P., McDermott, E., Soekadar, S., Fallgatter, A., Zrenner, C., Ziemann, U. and Dahlhaus, F., (2019). Alpha-synchronized stimulation of the left DLPFC in depression using real-time EEG-triggered TMS. Brain Stimulation, 12(2), p.532. doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2019.10.007

  • Zrenner, C., Desideri, D., Belardinelli, P., & Ziemann, U. (2018). Real-time EEG-defined excitability states determine efficacy of TMS-induced plasticity in human motor cortex. Brain Stimulation, 11(2), 374-389. doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2017.11.016