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Record W4411583311 · doi:10.1038/s41596-025-01182-4

Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience

2025· review· en· W4411583311 on OpenAlexaff
Alexandra Woolgar, Eva Feredoes, Moataz Assem, Yasmine Bassil, Til Ole Bergmann, Lysianne Beynel, Michael Burke, Robin Cash, Roch M. Comeau, Marta Correia, Erhan Genç, Gesa Hartwigsen, Jade Jackson, Matthias Kienle, Patrik Kunz, Olga Leticevscaia, Bruce Luber, Maximilian Lueckel, Claus Mathiesen, Elizabeth Michael, Ole Numssen, Desmond J. Oathes, Allyson Rosen, Teresa Schuhmann, Anna‐Lisa Schuler, Catriona L. Scrivener, Axel Thielscher, Martin Tik, Yordan Todorov, Maria Vasileiadi, Christian Windischberger, Molly S. Hermiller, Alexander T. Sack

Bibliographic record

VenueNature Protocols · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicTranscranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
Canadian institutionsRogue Research (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNeuroscienceCognitive neurosciencePlant biologyCognitionClinical neuroscienceComputational neuroscienceOpen sciencePsychologySystems neuroscienceCognitive scienceBiologyNeurologyCentral nervous system

Abstract

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Concurrent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (TMS-fMRI) provides a step-change in the toolkit of neuroscience research. TMS enables the noninvasive perturbation of ongoing human brain activity, and when coupled to fMRI for the simultaneous read-out of its effects across the brain, concurrent TMS-fMRI enables studies aimed at determining the causal inference of human brain-behavior relationships, with implications for both fundamental research and clinical application. Many of the technical barriers to TMS-fMRI implementation, such as hardware design and setups, have now been overcome, and the research community in the field is rapidly growing. Here, we present the guidelines set by an international consensus, from researchers at all levels and across the fields of cognitive and applied human neuroscience, for the experimental design and practical considerations of concurrent TMS-fMRI via 12 detailed use cases. These guidelines may facilitate the uptake of this approach and simplify the experimental design and planning stages.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.050
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.051
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.050
Threshold uncertainty score0.264

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0500.051
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.007
Bibliometrics0.0100.006
Science and technology studies0.0020.004
Scholarly communication0.0040.004
Open science0.0120.005
Research integrity0.0100.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.625
GPT teacher head0.596
Teacher spread0.029 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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