TMSMultiLab

TMSMultiLab

@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

Sharing guidance, resources, code & data for transcranial magnetic stimulation research Charged up by: @thehandlab.bsky.social Join us on GitHub: https://github.com/TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab/wiki Latest work: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2026.103155

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TMSMultiLab
@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

And it's over! Our first #Hackathon event was attended by around 20 scientists from across the globe. We worked on two main #TMS topics, with lots of overlap between our four teams (🦔🐿🐺🐍). Amazing what can be done in a couple of days! Thank you to everyone who contributed 💛 #TMS #BrainStim 🧠🧲⚡️

TMSMultiLab@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

There's some fabulous #TMS work happening online today - so cool to see folks coming together with their #Hackathon skills 😎🤩

TMSMultiLab
@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

THIS FRIDAY 👇⚡️🧠🧲

TMSMultiLab@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

The next TMSMultiLab meeting: 30th October, 16h UK time (GMT, after clocks go back): Dr Antonio Capozio "Who is Afraid of Brain Stimulation? Acoustic Startle Contributes to Variability in Motor Evoked Potentials" Meeting link is available via our Slack channel & github page #TMS #Brainstim ⚡️🧠🧲

TMSMultiLab
@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

The next TMSMultiLab meeting: 30th October, 16h UK time (GMT, after clocks go back): Dr Antonio Capozio "Who is Afraid of Brain Stimulation? Acoustic Startle Contributes to Variability in Motor Evoked Potentials" Meeting link is available via our Slack channel & github page #TMS #Brainstim ⚡️🧠🧲

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Nick Holmes
@thehandlab.bsky.social

TFW: you do the most basic control for a "well-established" scientific protocol that hundreds of papers have used as a measure and... the control shows the same effect. So now I have another series of experiments to run 🙄. I'm so glad to have 13 project students this year 😊 🧪 #TMS #BrainStim ⚡ 🧠🧲

TMSMultiLab
@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

Transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with electroencephalography analysis suggest time-dependent and region-specific modulation of cortical excitability during acute alcohol intoxication by Kekkonen V et al 2026 doi.org/10.1111/acer... ⚡🧠 🧲 #TMS #BrainStim

doi.orgTranscranial Magnetic Stimulation Combined With Electroencephalography Analysis Suggest Time‐Dependent and Region‐Specific Modulation of Cortical Excitability During Acute Alcohol IntoxicationThis study examined how acute alcohol exposure affects brain cortical activity in 34 healthy adults using TMS-EEG. Measurements were taken before, 30 min after, and 120 min after intoxication. Alcoho....
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Theta burst stimulation of the visual cortex does not alter contrast sensitivity under optically induced blur by Wong C et al 2026 doi.org/10.1371/jour... ⚡🧠 🧲 #TMS #BrainStim

doi.orgTheta burst stimulation of the visual cortex does not alter contrast sensitivity under optically induced blurThis study investigated whether a single session of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), specifically theta burst stimulation (TBS), acutely modulates visual function under conditions o...
TMSMultiLab
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over right PMd does not affect the stability of rhythmic bimanual finger movements by Denyer R et al 2026 doi.org/10.1523/ENEU... ⚡🧠 🧲 #TMS #BrainStim

doi.orgRepetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation over Right PMd Does Not Affect the Stability of Rhythmic Bimanual Finger MovementsHow the brain controls rhythmic asymmetric bimanual movements remains an enduring question in neuroscience. Prior research suggests that the right dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) is essential for maintai...
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Active motor preparation drives corticospinal facilitation during interception planning by McCurdy J et al 2026 doi.org/10.1152/jn.0... ⚡🧠 🧲 #TMS #BrainStim

doi.orgActive Motor Preparation Drives Corticospinal Facilitation during Interception Planning | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological SocietyIntercepting a moving target requires integrating visual motion information with motor preparation, yet how active motor preparation and gaze strategy jointly shape corticospinal excitability during interception planning remains unclear. We applied single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation over primary motor cortex to probe corticospinal excitability while participants either prepared to intercept a moving target or passively viewed its motion. Targets moved at one of two speeds, and participants judged target speed relative to a reference after each trial. Across blocks, participants were instructed to either smoothly pursue the target or fixate their eyes on the interception zone. Motor-evoked potentials were elicited at baseline, after task instruction, early during target motion, or shortly before target arrival. Task and gaze strategy interacted to influence both perceptual judgments and corticospinal excitability. Preparing to intercept produced a robust facilitation of corticospinal excitability immediately before movement onset, regardless of gaze strategy. In contrast, corticospinal excitability during passive viewing did not differ from baseline. Smooth pursuit improved perceptual accuracy and reduced interception timing error compared with fixation but did not independently influence corticospinal facilitation. These findings demonstrate that active motor preparation is the primary determinant of the transition to a state of facilitated excitability during interception planning, whereas eye movements modulate perceptual estimates and support behavioral performance.
TMSMultiLab
@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

#EMG BIDS is already here #NIBS BIDS is coming soon Are you ready..? #BrainStim #TMS #FAIR ⚡️🧠🧲

Nick Holmes@thehandlab.bsky.social

Learning BIDS today. Please send pictures of puppies renaming thousands of data files. #EMG #BrainStim #TMS #BIDS

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Sara J Hussain
@sarahussain.bsky.social

Interested in rehab, motor control, neurophysiology, and neuroengineering? Our group is recruiting a new PhD student for fall 2027. Funding is available via a research or teaching assistantship. See attached for info, and please share!

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Mads A. J. Madsen
@justmadsen.bsky.social

Very happy to see this one finally out in NeuroImage: Clinical. We combined 7T MRI with TMS to ask whether cortical lesions in the sensorimotor hand area affect how quickly signals travel between the two motor cortices. 1/6

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Motor-evoked modules obtained from transcranial magnetic stimulation by Morishita T et al 2026 doi.org/10.1152/jn.0... ⚡🧠 🧲 #TMS #BrainStim

doi.orgMotor-evoked modules obtained from transcranial magnetic stimulation | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological SocietyAs a noninvasive neuromodulation technique, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) offers insights into motor system physiology through motor-evoked potentials (MEPs). In the present study, we applied a factorization approach to multimuscle MEPs to characterize the pattern-level structure of corticospinal outputs beyond conventional per-muscle amplitude measures. To evaluate this approach, we analyzed multimuscle MEP datasets from three experiments in healthy young adults focusing on different stimulus parameters: stimulus intensity (experiment 1: n = 40), motor mapping size (experiment 2: n = 35), and activation of intracortical circuits by a paired-pulse TMS paradigm (experiment 3: n = 20). We extracted motor-evoked modules (MEMs) using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) and compared their structure across different stimulus conditions. MEM structure was impacted by stimulus intensity, and these findings indicate that stimulus intensity shapes the pattern-level structure of corticospinal outputs. Varying motor mapping size had only a minor impact on MEM structure, suggesting that the pattern-level structure of corticospinal outputs elicited by TMS was stable across mapping extents. Activation of intracortical inhibition appeared to alter MEM structure compared with single-pulse TMS. These findings suggest that paired-pulse activation of intracortical inhibition may alter the pattern-level structure of corticospinal outputs. The MEM framework allows us to characterize the pattern-level structure of corticospinal outputs beyond single-muscle MEPs; thus, MEMs obtained from TMS complement well-established single-muscle MEP analyses and offer a novel perspective for investigating the motor system.
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Age-related differences in corticospinal function and muscle strength: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Adugna D et al 2026 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... ⚡🧠 🧲 #TMS #BrainStim

doi.orgAge‐Related Differences in Corticospinal Function and Muscle Strength: A Systematic Review and Meta‐AnalysisChanges in nervous system with age are responsible for reduced muscle force-generating capacity (i.e., MVC). This meta-analysis reveals that older adults exhibited lower resting corticospinal excitab...

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Charlotte Reese Marshall
@tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social

This has always bugged me. One in every nine humans is left-handed and we cogneuro folks just seem deeply incurious about whether and how that matters for functional brain organisation. Bravo to these authors, and interesting to see that in their specific case there aren't relevant differences.

Brock Kirwan@brockkirwan.com

In honor of International Left-Handers Day, we have an updated preprint on scanning left-handed participants in fMRI studies. Although they're 11% of the population, we routinely screen LH people out of fMRI studies due to concerns about functional lateralization 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

biorxiv.orgLeft Out: The Effect of Handedness on fMRI Activation in Memory ParadigmsAbout 11% of the population is left-handed, a significant minority of the potential participant pool for functional MRI (fMRI) studies. However, convention in fMRI research dictates these potential pa...

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Konstantina Kilteni
@kkilteni.bsky.social

Thrilled to see our paper @nathumbehav.nature.com, led by the brilliant (Bsky-less) PhD student Ziliang Xiong from @erc.europa.eu project #TicklishHuman! We asked: -Is human ticklishness shared across cultures? -Can we explain where on the body we are ticklish? 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comHuman ticklishness is a widespread, culturally shared and bodily organized sensory experience - Nature Human BehaviourTicklishness is a familiar but poorly understood experience. Xiong and Kilteni show that ticklishness is culturally shared and follows a distinct bodily topography. They evaluate different theories on...
TMSMultiLab
@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

There's some fabulous #TMS work happening online today - so cool to see folks coming together with their #Hackathon skills 😎🤩

TMSMultiLab@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

Day 1 of our first #Hackathon has finished for 12 Eastern Hemisphere hackers (🦔🐿, IYKYK), but is in full flow for our Western Hemisphere hackers (🐺🐍). Our KeyNote presentation from @sarahussain.bsky.social was awesome! If you want to join in the #TMS fun in future, find us on github & slack (ask!)

TMSMultiLab
@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

Day 1 of our first #Hackathon has finished for 12 Eastern Hemisphere hackers (🦔🐿, IYKYK), but is in full flow for our Western Hemisphere hackers (🐺🐍). Our KeyNote presentation from @sarahussain.bsky.social was awesome! If you want to join in the #TMS fun in future, find us on github & slack (ask!)

TMSMultiLab@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

The first TMSMultiLab #Hackathon starts in 15 minutes! Not much preparation has gone into it - because we need YOU to create the event you deserve :-) Good luck, hackers... #TMS #BrainStim 🧠🧲⚡️

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Nick Holmes
@thehandlab.bsky.social

Big news from #OSF today - no more projects & data sharing from later this year. #OpenScience What are your options? 👇

Russ Poldrack@russpoldrack.org

Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...

bettercode-book.org12  Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science
TMSMultiLab
@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

Starting in 25 minutes - all are welcome :-) Zoom link is in our github page: github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

github.comHackathon2026Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab
TMSMultiLab@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

📣 Our KeyNote speaker at the inaugural #Hackathon 2026 is: Dr Sara Hussain @sarahussain.bsky.social on their recent work: "Debunking the myth of excitatory and inhibitory repetitive TMS" Tuesday 11th August 16h UTC+2 (Paris) (15h London, 10h New York) Zoom link on our GitHub & Slack channel!

TMSMultiLab
@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

The first TMSMultiLab #Hackathon starts in 15 minutes! Not much preparation has gone into it - because we need YOU to create the event you deserve :-) Good luck, hackers... #TMS #BrainStim 🧠🧲⚡️

TMSMultiLab
@tmsmultilab.bsky.social

📣 Our KeyNote speaker at the inaugural #Hackathon 2026 is: Dr Sara Hussain @sarahussain.bsky.social on their recent work: "Debunking the myth of excitatory and inhibitory repetitive TMS" Tuesday 11th August 16h UTC+2 (Paris) (15h London, 10h New York) Zoom link on our GitHub & Slack channel!