[Eeglablist] Launch of the Team 4 TMS-EEG initiative - T4TE

[Marta Bortoletto]

Dear EEGlab community,

We are launching the first study of the Team for TMS-EEG (T4TE) initiative
and would be happy to involve interested labs and researcher of the EEGlab
community.

T4TE is inspired by other collaborative initiatives that aim at improving
research quality through the promotion of large datasets acquisition, high
methodological rigor, scientific transparency, and data sharing in the
field of neuroscience.

As a community, we need to define good practices and to better understand
what is measured with TMS-EEG through a wide joint effort.

T4TE aims at fostering collaboration community for projects aimed at
testing RELIABILITY, VALIDITY and BIOMARKERS DEVELOPMENT of specific
TMS-EEG indexes (e.g., TMS-Evoked Potentials, Global Mean Field Power,
Natural Frequencies, etc.).



The first study is focused on the TEPs obtained with the stimulation of M1
and it aims at testing their reliability for variations in procedures
across labs. The study is designed to disentangle the effects of
flexibility in data acquisition and in data processing on TEPs. Moreover,
it will investigate the direct effect of flexibility on: a) the comparison
of TEPs in trials of high and low cortical excitability, as indexed by
motor-evoked potentials (MEPs), and b) the effect of prestimulus
oscillations on TEPs.

This study is grounded on one of the TMS-EEG indexes that are most studied
in the literature but that still presents several sources of variability
and controversy. We hope that this endeavour will be of benefit for the
entire community.



We have now opened the registration to join the project until December
2022. For more information about it and to check requirements, please visit
our website at https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.T4TE.org__;!!Mih3wA!GOAX4OAaw_uaB5rjGffpKVUp8XItUFo4zvEX6N-oqbVQ1dSDiJPxvyNlYhZBFQ5V-KLcCwmogbx4l7RmjpllYeZKjEg$  

Labs where there is no previous experience in TMS-EEG coregistration are
welcome to partecipate and can benefit of the collaboration with more
experienced participating lab if they wish support.

If you want to contribute to the first study, but are unsure whether you
can meet all the set requirements, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

For registering, sending questions or comments, please write to
contact.T4TE at gmail.com



Best Regards,

The T4TE core team (Agnese, Chiara, Julio, Marta, Mimma, Petro, Tuomas)