Occurrence of Reversible Bilateral Scotoma 1 Hour After Single-Pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Case Report

Because this piece does not have an abstract, we have provided for your benefit the first 3 sentences of the full text.

Sir: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a noninvasive method for stimulating predefined areas of the cortex. It not only is used as a neurologic technique to measure connectivity and excitability of the cortex by magnetic stimulation, but also has clear effects if added to the standard treatment of psychiatricdiseases.^1,2 The activation of neural tissue by TMS is not limited to the stimulated cortical area but can also spread to connected intralateral and contralateral structures.³‘ ‹