Meeting #9: The TMS Reporting Assessment Tool (TMS-RAT)

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Dear all @TMSMultiLab/meetings @TMSMultiLab/tmsat40 @TMSMultiLab/quality_rating,

at the last meeting (#8) we discussed how researchers can do TMS experiments with students (bachelor, master). The meeting notes are here: Student-projects.

At the meeting, we reached agreement that, over the next year, anyone who wants to take part can make a few small changes or additions to ongoing student projects, to try to answer some very simple questions:

1. Effect of instructions on 'resting' motor threshold (i.e., 'do not move' vs. 'relax')
2. How is RMT actually implemented? (i.e., the guidance says 5/10, but what do we actually do?)
3. Regular recording of biometric variables (height, weight, head size, arm length)
4. Different approaches to input-output (dose-response) curves

The 'small project ideas' are written up here. To take part, read the info, make comments or additions, sign up your lab and we'll create a 'Team' later on / as needed. We'll then send out reminders to take part during the academic year. This is a low-effort / low-commitment project - only ongoing/existing experiments or labs should take part. It is a 'pilot' for how TMSMultiLab might work together in practice. Who knows - we may write a paper about it next year...

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🐀At the next meeting, Solya Szekely will tell us all about the TMS-RAT project - a new tool for systematic review, meta-analysis, and reporting guidance. This project has been going for more than a year, with most of the work happening over the last 6 months, among 18 TMSMultiLab contributors. It's the first full-scale empirical TMSMultiLab project, and it's a banger 💥. Depending on progress and workloads, we should see some data at the meeting...🐀

Friday 26th September, 14:00 (BST)

(permanent) Meeting link: https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86201752364?pwd=LnSPVYuBDGa5BEbFNy5SmENqcDsvpC.1

Please add this into a regular diary slot - last Friday of every month (excluding December).

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TMS@40 paper: If you attended the workshop in April, you will be expecting me to send a first draft of the workshop paper. It is nearly done (it turns out that editing 23,000 words into ~8,000 slightly more coherent words takes many days...). Hopefully you will see it before the end of September. I guess we are now planning to submit the paper before the end of 2025. 🤞

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That is all. See you online in 2 weeks (-36 minutes) from now...

NPH

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________________________________ From: Nicholas Paul Holmes ***@***.***> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2025 1:40:39 PM To: TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab ***@***.***> Cc: Nuttall, Helen ***@***.***>; Team mention ***@***.***> Subject: [External] [TMSMultiLab] Meeting #9: The TMS Reporting Assessment Tool (TMS-RAT) (Discussion #35) This email originated outside the University. Check before clicking links or attachments. Dear all @TMSMultiLab/meetings<https://github.com/orgs/TMSMultiLab/teams/meetings> @TMSMultiLab/tmsat40<https://github.com/orgs/TMSMultiLab/teams/tmsat40> @TMSMultiLab/quality_rating<https://github.com/orgs/TMSMultiLab/teams/quality_rating>, at the last meeting (#8<https://github.com/TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab/wiki/Meetings#past-meetings>) we discussed how researchers can do TMS experiments with students (bachelor, master). The meeting notes are here: Student-projects<https://github.com/TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab/wiki/Student-projects>. At the meeting, we reached agreement that, over the next year, anyone who wants to take part can make a few small changes or additions to ongoing student projects, to try to answer some very simple questions: 1. Effect of instructions on 'resting' motor threshold (i.e., 'do not move' vs. 'relax') 2. How is RMT actually implemented? (i.e., the guidance says 5/10, but what do we actually do?) 3. Regular recording of biometric variables (height, weight, head size, arm length) 4. Different approaches to input-output (dose-response) curves The 'small project ideas' are written up here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jG2D9Itunc-HQjXGrj7Jk-LiY-imPAA7C6iVQfy5B0M/edit?usp=sharing>. To take part, read the info, make comments or additions, sign up your lab and we'll create a 'Team' later on / as needed. We'll then send out reminders to take part during the academic year. This is a low-effort / low-commitment project - only ongoing/existing experiments or labs should take part. It is a 'pilot' for how TMSMultiLab might work together in practice. Who knows - we may write a paper about it next year...

________________________________ 🐀At the next meeting, Solya Szekely<https://github.com/orgs/TMSMultiLab/people/OrsolyaSzekely> will tell us all about the TMS-RAT project<https://tms-rat.org/> - a new tool for systematic review, meta-analysis, and reporting guidance. This project has been going for more than a year, with most of the work happening over the last 6 months, among 18 TMSMultiLab contributors. It's the first full-scale empirical TMSMultiLab project, and it's a banger 💥. Depending on progress and workloads, we should see some data at the meeting...🐀 Friday 26th September, 14:00 (BST) (permanent) Meeting link: https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86201752364?pwd=LnSPVYuBDGa5BEbFNy5SmENqcDsvpC.1 Please add this into a regular diary slot - last Friday of every month (excluding December).

________________________________ Admin: Some people have not been receiving emails from these monthly meeting announcements. If you're not, then please join the Meetings team<https://github.com/orgs/TMSMultiLab/teams/meetings> and/or check your github 'notification' and/or your email junk/spam settings. I post one message on the second Friday of every month (today!), and I copy it over to the Slack channel (if you prefer that). (I really don't want to set up another mailing list...)

________________________________ ***@***.*** paper: If you attended the workshop in April, you will be expecting me to send a first draft of the workshop paper. It is nearly done (it turns out that editing 23,000 words into ~8,000 slightly more coherent words takes many days...). Hopefully you will see it before the end of September. I guess we are now planning to submit the paper before the end of 2025. 🤞

________________________________ That is all. See you online in 2 weeks (-36 minutes) from now... NPH — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#35>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BDAPDKXMESG5JCK3TRQPJAT3SLENPAVCNFSM6AAAAACGLBCOYSVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ERDJONRXK43TNFXW4OZYHA4DMMJZG4>. You are receiving this because you are on a team that was mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>