/rtms-scholar

Home of the rtms-scholar database on scientific literature on rTMS.

Welcome rTMS-scholar

This is the home of rTMS-scholar, a comprehensive database for scholarly literature on repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).

What is rTMS scholar?

rTMS scholar is a database for scholarly literature about repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Its coverage is restricted to:

  • rTMS studies, where repetition rate ≥ 1 Hz
  • experiments performed on human participants (both healthy and patients)
  • peer-reviewed articles that can be identified via PubMed

We exclude studies:

  • magnetic seizure therapy
  • peripheral (extracephalic) rTMS studies

What is the motivation of rTMS scholar?

The main motivation of rTMS scholar is to organize the methodological information from peer-reviewed articles that investigate the motor, cognitive, affective, electrophysiological and neurophysiological effects and aftereffects of various forms of rTMS including patterned protocols such as theta burst stimulation (TBS). rTMS scholar aims to facilitate rTMS research by providing a better methodological overview about the increasing number of rTMS studies.

How can rTMS scholar facilitate research?

Every study is a unique work on its own. However, peer-reviewed rTMS articles share - to some extent - common features, parameters and practices, according to which they can be organized. rTMS scholar allows researchers to gain an overview about wide range of methodological parameters used in the rTMS literature.

Implementation of rTMS scholar

The rTMS scholar is implemented in R, library ProjectTemplate: http://projecttemplate.net/getting_started.html Each module has a data folder. Each article is associated with an excel sheet (XLSX format) and stored in a particular module folder.

Status of rTMS scholar

The development of rTMS scholar started in December 2018. rTMS scholar is under intense development at the moment.

Contributors of TMS scholar

  • Zsolt Turi:
    • conceptualization of rTMS scholar
    • developing the organization system for rTMS-related information
    • developing the organization system for EEG-related information
    • coordinating the development of rTMS scholar
    • coordinating the data input to rTMS scholar
    • initial R implementation
  • Matthias Mittner:
    • developing the organization system for fMRI-related information
    • coordinating the data input to rTMS scholar in Tromsø, Norway
    • R implementation
  • Gábor Csifcsák
    • developing the organization system for rTMS-related information
    • developing the organization system for EEG-related information
    • coordinating the data input to rTMS scholar in Tromsø, Norway
  • Alberto Pisoni
    • developing the organization system for EEG-related information
    • coordinating the data input of rTMS scholar in Milan, Italy

Contact information

Zsolt Turi: zsoltturi@gmail.com