I'm thrilled to me amongst the Springboard Awardees this year, to receive this funding during a pivot point in my career.

With this I'm pleased to advertise a fully funded PhD opportunity

Cross-Education as an Exercise Treatment Strategy for Knee Osteoarthritis

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

@acmedsci.bsky.social #academicsky @jobsinsportscience.bsky.social

TMSMultiLab is an international network for researchers using #TMS - transcranial magnetic stimulation.

There are about 85 of us, over 14 countries. We've written a few papers so far (under review / in prep), but more importantly we hold monthly Meetings:

Free to all!

github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

This Friday!

Get the GoogleMeet link in the usual place, or ask someone who knows..!

If you want to present some work, lead a discussion, review a paper, or anything else #TMS at one of our future meetings, then get in touch!

#BrainStim 🧠⚡

Cardiac, respiratory, and gastric rhythms independently modulate motor corticospinal excitability in humans How do internal bodily rhythms influence brain activity and motor function? This study shows that cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct...

Meeting #14: March 27th, 12h GMT

Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social will tell us how:

"Cardiac, respiratory & gastric rhythms independently modulate motor corticospinal excitability in humans"

you can also read about it here:
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

meeting link via Slack/GitHub: ask! 🧠⚡

This Friday at 14:00 GMT, if you've got nothing better to do, but talk about #TMS #BrainStim theory & methods

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TMSMultiLab kindly requests that you show TMS coils TO SCALE on your methods brain Figures. This looks like the tiniest #TMS coil ever invented. In reality, the coil would cover ~2/3 of the brain. Make coils GREAT again!

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Are you an internationally trained psychologist entering the UK workforce?

In her #BPSCareersFest talk, Dr Sai Joshi will share practical lessons including HCPC registration, finding your speciality, navigating systems, and much more.

🗓️ 11:10am, Thurs 12 Feb

Join: events.zoom.us/ev/AuN5SMDHk...

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

The 12th TMSMultiLab meeting will be lead by

Dr Giacomo Bertazzoli
(orcid.org/0000-0003-16...)

on

"The NIBS-BIDS proposal"

Friday 30th Jan, 14h GMT, Zoom

All acronyms will be explained, but its about:

#DataSharing #OpenScience #Standards #TMS #BrainStim

github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

I am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out.

Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration.

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Visualising Test Scores in Neuropsychology – NeuroPsyTools An introduction to visualising neuropsychological test data for the individual patient.

neuropsytools.com/pages/posts/...

Hello Blue Sky! First time posting here ☺️🏡

Second Blog Post! An introduction to visualising test scores in neuropsychology - because we all like pretty plots right...?

@donbps.bsky.social

Hi Chris, many thanks for sharing. It is very helpful in the clinical practice.

It is very important for science. Many thanks for working on this.

Today at 14:00 GMT

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Our next monthly meeting:

Dr Daniel T Corp will talk about:

Big NIBS data: a repository and pipeline for big data analyses in NIBS

bignibsdata.com

Friday 31st 🎃ctober at 14:00 GMT

Meeting link via Slack & GitHub (link in profile) - join us!

#TMS #BrainStim #NIBS

Many thanks to all the researchers who have told us about how they use #TMS - the results are looking really useful and very interesting!

We'll keep the survey open until 31st October, so if you can please spare 5 minutes:

Complete the #TMS User Survey!
forms.gle/95EW1PVC3JQV...

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TMSMultiLab survey TMSMultiLab is a community of ~70 researchers using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). We aim to share methods code and data, to reach consensus & encourage best practice in TMS research methods...

To find out about how #TMS #BrainStim users collect, analyse & share their data, we've made a very brief TMS survey:

forms.gle/83Abpj5F8qzd...

It should take you less than 5 minutes & does not ask for any personal information.

We'll use the answers to plan our future work.

Please share!

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There are years when nothing happens.

And there are days when years happen.

#TMS🐀

This Friday's Monthly Meeting is given by Solya Szekely @solyas.bsky.social who will tell us about the TMS-RAT 🐀 Project.

In this project, 18 members of TMSMultiLab created, developed & tested a tool for #SystematicReview #MeyaAnalysis & reporting in #TMS research

Join us!

tms-rat.org

Good job, Solya!

I need a #mathematician to help with a project. Ideally UK-based.

I've emailed a few folks in my uni, but none replied...

Anyone interested?

My need is nonlinear modelling of brain and muscle signals, optimisation, decomposition.

Anyone?

Over the last few months, members of TMSMultiLab have read, analysed & assessed #TMS research papers to produce a new tool:

17 people
333 papers
80 criteria
2 raters per paper

The dataset contains 53,280 ratings!

It's an immense piece of work, the first empirical contribution of TMSMultiLab...

☺️

image describing the trials in the experiment. at the start of each trial, a random 1-3 foreperiod contains a fixation cross to warn the participant. The first event in the trial is a 200ms period with two coloured squares left and right of the (now disappeared) central fixation point (both are red, blue, yellow or green). These are the distractor 'Flanker' stimuli. A third coloured square is then presented centrally. This is the target stimulus. If the target is red or blue, the participant must grip a left force meter; if green or yellow, they grip the right force meter. They try to respond as quickly and as correctly as possible. In the ~300ms before their response, two pulses of TMS are delivered, one over each motor cortex. This TMS pulse excites the corticospinal tract and results in a muscle contraction. The size of the muscle contraction is used as a proxy for corticospinal excitability and response preparation.

I'm happy to report that @valedichiaro.bsky.social 's 2nd PhD paper is in press! :-). Brief explainer...

- 2-coil #TMS over left & right primary motor cortex
- TMS in the ~300ms before one hand responds
- corticospinal excitability increases before response
- no changes in non-responding hand

1/n

The *final* stage of the TMS-RAT 🐀 v1.0 is happening... data are being compiled. 😬...

#TMS #BrainStim #SystematicReview

tms-rat.org

The TMS-RAT v1.0 is now being tested!

It's a checklist / guidance tool to help researchers report #TMS studies & to facilitate quantitative comparisons in #systematicreviews & #meta-analyses

All the data will be made freely available; an interactive website will be coming. Stay tuned!

tms-rat.org

Amazing joke.

Happy 40th Birthday #TMS 🥳🧲🎈

Published in the Lancet on 11th May 1985, a 1-page report of a new device & the 1st TMS-evoked MEP changed brain stimulation research & treatment forever

We celebrated with Professor Barker two weeks ago in Birmingham

Here's to 40 more years!

doi.org/10.1016/s014...