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Elsa Fouragnan @efouragnan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing. Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br... Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...

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Brain Injury During Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Substance Use Disorder

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Benjamin Kop @ben-kop.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Hold on to your transducers, TUS community! We've focused on managing what participants can hear during stimulation… but how about what they feel?! Our BrainStim paper maps tactile, thermal, & painful sensations during transcranial ultrasonic stimulation - and reveals how to minimize them. Thread👇

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Parameter optimisation for mitigating somatosensory confounds during transcranial ultrasonic stimulation

Transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) redefines what is possible with non-invasive neuromodulation by offering unparalleled spatial precision and flexible targeting capabilities. However, peripher...

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Soha Farboud | So @sohafarboud.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

👀 Look to your left! Look to your right! I just 'stimulated' your frontal eye fields (FEFs)! 🧠 In our latest study, we developed a temporally precise Transcranial Ultrasonic Stimulation (TUS) protocol to modulate the human FEFs & uncover new insights into brain function!👇 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Rapid modulation of choice behavior by ultrasound on the human frontal eye fields

A fundamental challenge in neuroscience is establishing causal brain-function relationships with spatial and temporal precision. Transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) offers a unique opportunity t...

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IFCN and its Clinical Neurophysiology journal @clinicalneuroph.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

[Highlight of the Month] Murphy et al. A practical guide to transcranial ultrasonic stimulation from the IFCN-endorsed ITRUSST consortium. Clin Neurophysiol 2025;171:192-226. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

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Benjamin Kop @ben-kop.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Effects of 5Hz-rTUS (tbTUS) on corticospinal excitability are less robust than we initially thought. Check out my new preprint with @drcarysevans.bsky.social and Po-Yu Fong showing that offline excitatory TUS-TMS effects don't replicate. Thread below 👇 doi.org/10.1101/2024...

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Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I'm still missing lots of transcranial ultrasound neuromod folks on BlueSky, so trying to create a starter pack that I hope we can add many people to in the next weeks... please spread the word and let me know who I have missed out! go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy

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Benjamin Kop @ben-kop.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

TUS holds great potential for neuroscience and clinical applications, but its success requires careful control for peripheral confounds. Let’s ensure noise doesn’t derail this powerful technology! Check out our eLife paper: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Thread below 👇

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Auditory confounds can drive online effects of transcranial ultrasonic stimulation in humans

Realizing the clinical and neuroscientific potential of transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) requires careful control of the peripheral auditory confounds that underlie previously reported online...

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