TMSMultiLab

If you find a (serious) analysis flaw that affects at least 20 #TMS papers over ~20 years, mostly by the same group/PI, do you:

a) shrug 🤷‍♂️ - 'twas ever thus

b) post 20+ PubPeer comments

c) email the PI

d) write a commentary/tutorial

e) something else 👇

This could be a great topic for one of our monthly meetings!

Exciting new work from @phivph.com open your eyes wide 👀 and read! 👇

#TMS #BrainStim

Transcranial magnetic stimulation induced pupil dilations can serve as a cortical excitability measure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668303v1

We’re proud to announce Asst. Prof. Dr. Lucia Navarro de Lara (Harvard) as keynote at the International Concurrent TMS-fMRI Workshop!
Her talk will showcase the next generation of multimodal imaging tech, including the first multichannel TMS array system and RF-EEG Cap.
Visit www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

TMS@40 v2.0!

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Ooh, electromagnetome sounds very tech! ❤️

If we had a complete account of all the effects of #TMS on the brain - different intensities, protocols, brain areas, brain states, what would it be called 🤔?

The Zapome? ⚡️

The Stimome? ⚡️

Let us know! 👇

The first TMSMultiLab paper is coming. Some day soon...

#TMS #BrainStim #OpenScience

www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

What is the best way to advance a challenging-yet-inferentially-powerful combination of neurostimulation and neuroimaging? Come to Cancun to find out! Join us for the 3rd International Concurrent TMS-fMRI Workshop September 15-17 *literally* by the beach: www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

<TMS best practices>

Hi folks,

Could you please point me to the most up-to-date consensus paper you're aware of relating to TMS safety? Number of pulses / intensities / frequencies / other parameters etc.

I want to take as wide a look at the literature as possible.

Please repost for visibility!

Reminder: this Friday the second meeting of TMSMultiLab, talking about how to best use the baseline #EMG period in before a #TMS pulse.

Get in touch to be added to the Slack channel, or join us on Github (link in profile).

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

First postdoc publication online today in the Journal of Applied Physiology (@apspublishing.bsky.social)!

doi.org/10.1152/japp...

We used fascicle dynamics, ankle kinetics, and EMG to estimate soleus metabolic cost across walking speeds and footwear stiffnesses.

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Can you control an extra robotic finger just by flexing your leg muscles?
In our new study, we put EMG-based muscle control to the test, comparing it to traditional toe force sensor control for operating the Third Thumb (designed by @daniclode.bsky.social).
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Presenting my poster on pain learning and Phantom Limb Pain today at #IMRF2025 at 3.30pm. Come find me at #21 to chat about how amputees learn painful cues across different environments and in active/passive conditions 🧠

Twenty-nine folded pieces of paper of various sizes are scattered on an old, dirty, brown carpet somewhere in The Midlands of England. Each piece contains text selected and physically cut from a printed corpus of 23,000 words generated by the wonderful attendees of the even wonderfuller TMS@40 Workshop, held in Birmingham England, at the end of April, 2025. These printed snowflakes of neuroscience will be blown together into a paper reporting our 'position' on how TMS research should adapt to the age of open science. Watch this space. I don't mean the carpet, that would be weird. I mean it metaphorically. Literally speaking, you should watch this account for updates about the paper, and then read the paper please. Thank you. Fin.

The first draft of the #TMS@40 paper is being assembled, not on my living room floor, but on a computer. Hope to get the first draft to all 57 authors this week..!

🙏✍️🙏👨‍💻🙏🕚🙏 #BrainStim #TMS #OpenScience

Happy 107th Birthday, Brenda Milner! Her contributions to neuropsychology shaped the way we understand the human brain. From surviving two world wars and two pandemics, to paving the way for future generations of researchers, Milner’s legacy continues. @mcgill.ca @cusm-muhc.bsky.social

Join us for the 2025 TMS Masterclass & Certification Course — taking place September 30 to October 2 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

📍 Don’t miss your chance to be part of it!
👉 Secure your seat now: brainclinics.com/masterclass/...

Will send..! ⚡️

I will send an invite! ⚡️

McMackin Lab - Dr Roisin McMackin Roisin is the Principal Investigator for the lab. She is an Assistant Professor in the Discipline of Physiology at Trinity College Dublin and works in close collaboration with the Academic Unit of Neu...

The next meeting of TMSMultiLab 🧠🧲:

Friday 25th July 14:00 (GMT+1)

Dr Roisin McMackin on how to use the EMG baseline period before a TMS pulse.

Join us on Github or Slack to get the monthly meeting link (or email).

#BrainStim #EMG #TMS

www.mcmackinlab.com/people/dr-ro...

Optimizing control conditions for entraining neural oscillations using rhythmic TMS Rhythmic transcranial magnetic stimulation (rh-TMS) is increasingly used to entrain neural oscillations and probe their causal roles in cognition [1-3]. By delivering pulse trains at specific frequenc...

New results! We tested different control conditions for rh-TMS entrainment and showed ar-TMS performs best (matching sensory without inducing oscillatory effects). Also explored how rh-TMS/ar-TMS/sham-TMS differentially impact Oscillatory and Aperiodic activity!
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

You're in!

🙏 - forgot that Jason was on here!

EMG Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab

During & after the meeting, we updated the github pages on EMG:

github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

There's a different #TMS topic every month. It's free & open to anyone, just sign up to github or join the slack channel.

See you on the last Friday in July to discuss the EMG baseline period before TMS...

At our last meeting @jandrushko.bsky.social & Jason DeFreitas introduced the physiology & physics of #EMG & how to get optimal signals. They stressed the importance of:

* setting up a low-noise lab
* consistent electrode placement
* digital filtering
* amplitude normalisation

A really useful talk!

A systemic approach to better coordination in science - Nature Human Behaviour Although individualism and isolated work remain common in academia, coordination offers substantial benefits. This Comment calls on researchers, funders, policymakers, journals and universities to cre...

If you use #TMS and agree that we should coordinate our #science more, then join us on Github, Slack, and/or our monthly Zoom meetings. We're writing code, protocols & papers.

Join us! (link in bio)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#TMS #BrainStim