The relationship of neuroanatomy on resting motor threshold and induced electric field strength on treatment outcomes in mild to moderate traumatic brain injury patients during transcranial magnetic stimulation

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive treatment protocol for treating several psychiatric conditions, including depression, migraine, smoking cessation, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Past research suggests that TMS treatment outcomes vary based on neuroanatomy, functional connectivity, and tractography-based structural connectivity. In a previous study, 26 mild to moderate traumatic brain injury (mTBI) patients underwent repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and showed improvements in depression, post-concussive symptoms, and sleep dysfunction. The present study was a secondary analysis of that data. Anatomically accurate head models were derived from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and finite element analysis simulations were performed to mimic empirical data collection. This allowed for examination of the roles that age, brain scalp distance (BSD), gray matter volume (GMV), site-specific electrical field strength (EFS), and depolarized gray matter volume (DGMV) had on resting motor threshold (RMT) at the precentral gyrus (PreCG). We also investigated how EFS simulated at the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and RMT influenced rTMS treatment outcomes. Linear regression showed BSD was associated with EFS, RMT, and DGMV supporting efforts to derive accurate parameters from MRI-based modeling. Furthermore, linear mixed effects modeling showed RMT was associated with EFS and DGMV at the PreCG when age and individual neuroanatomy was accounted for suggesting MRI based anatomy and simulated EFS potentially determine TMS dosage. We did not observe any significant relationship between any of the measures from this study on empirically collected rTMS outcomes in mTBI suggesting further investigations into the mechanisms behind these outcomes are needed.

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