Umair Hassan

Safety and tolerability of dual-site accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder and major depressive disorder Dear editor:

How far can we push transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for those most in need? Our new accelerated TMS protocol delivers more pulses than has ever previously been reported, enabling a patient to cancel planned deep brain stimulation surgery.

Congratulations @esolomon.bsky.social 🚀🚀🚀🚀 so well deserved!! 👏👏👏🎉

Excellent opportunity for top notch graduate research! 🚀🚀

Preprint alert! Check out our latest work in @stanfordpntlab.bsky.social, with @coreykeller.bsky.social @neuro-engineer.bsky.social @esolomon.bsky.social Nick Trapp Aaron Boes (UIowa) 👏

Fantastic work by @esolomon.bsky.social @neuro-engineer.bsky.social & team in uncovering a potential way in which TMS can change neural activity in the subgenual cingulate cortex! Implications for TMS treatment in depression

Really proud of this work bridging electrophysiology and neuroimaging of prefrontal cortex! 🚀

This enables future work to characterize E/I profile of spindles, investigate their interaction with SOs, test their role as windows of phase-dependent synaptic plasticity & causal relevance for systems memory consolidation to build effective therapies in psychiatry & neurology.

Our findings suggests spindles exerts asymmetrical “pulsed inhibition” on corticospinal excitability, complementing previous reports of phasic modulation of MEPs by the sleep SO as well as asymmetrical “pulsed facilitation” by the sensorimotor mu-alpha rhythm during wakefulness.

We provide the first in-human demonstration of the feasibility of real-time sleep spindle phase-triggered TMS in humans and of a phasic modulation of corticospinal excitability by the sleep spindle.

Pulsed inhibition of corticospinal excitability by the thalamocortical sleep spindle Thalamocortical sleep spindles, i.e., oscillatory bursts at ∼12-15 Hz of waxing and waning amplitude, are a hallmark feature of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and believed to play a key role in m...

Our new paper is out in @braistimjournal.bsky.social

"Pulsed inhibition of corticospinal excitability by the thalamocortical sleep spindle"

With an amazing team @tobergmann.bsky.social , @ Ulf Ziemann @ Christoph Zrenner @ Prince Okyere & @ Milad Amini

www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

🧠 We are #hiring! Postdoc @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social: help us develop closed-loop EEG platforms to improve TMS treatment for depression! Coding and neuroscience / engineering backgrounds required. Join our team! precisionneuro.stanford.edu email: ckeller1@stanford.edu

We're excited to share NaviNIBS, our new open-source tool 🔨 for neuronavigated noninvasive #brainstim 🧠⚡️

🎉Congrats to our co-director Chris Cline, lead developer of NaviNIBS!

We hope to enable new possibilities for innovations in neuronavigation #TMSEEG @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social (1/5)

🚨 New preprint alert 🚨 Musical rhythms can boost brain stimulation effects! ⚡️ Sensory-entrained #TMS (seTMS) synchronizes TMS pulses with auditory rhythm-induced high-excitability brain states 🎶🧠

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