Sunday, 3 March 2013  Research Briefing: How safe is
transcranial magnetic stimulation?  Source Article: Maizey, L.,
Allen, C.P.G., Dervinis, M., Verbruggen, F., Varnava, A.,
Kozlov, M., Adams, R.C., Stokes, M., Klemen, J., Bungert, A.,
Hounsell, C.A., Chambers, C.D. (2013). Comparative incidence
rates of mild adverse effects to transcranial magnetic
stimulation. Clinical Neurophysiology, 124, 536-544.  [pdf]
[monitoring forms]   When I moved to Cardiff University back in
2008, the first thing I did was set up two labs for doing human
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). I’d been using TMS
since 2002 and it was (and continues to be) a major part of my
research programme. Unlike brain imaging techniques such as fMRI
or MEG, TMS interferes with brain activity. This means that the
effect of TMS on behaviour can tell us which parts of the brain
are necessary for different cognitive functions. In my lab we
use TMS to study processes such as perception, attention,
consciousness, decision-making, and response in