Meeting #21: Antonio Capozio: "Who is Afraid of Brain Stimulation? Acoustic Startle Contributes to Variability in Motor Evoked Potentials" Friday 30th October 2026 16:00 (UTC+0), via Zoom

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Dear all @TMSMultiLab/meetings

It feels like way more than four weeks since the last meeting! If you can remember back that far, Robert Hardwick told us all about RMT Finder - a fully-automated resting motor threshold algorithm and procedure for Magstim-CED Spike setups.

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The next meeting is in ten days time - Friday 30th October at 16:00 UK time (GMT+0) - this is

• after the clocks go back one hour and
• not our usual time (due to the speaker's teaching commitments)

Our speaker will be Dr Antonio Capozio from Edge Hill University who will present some work on the startling effects of the acoustic stimuli produced by TMS:

"Who is Afraid of Brain Stimulation? Acoustic Startle Contributes to Variability in Motor Evoked Potentials"

Does the sound change MEPs? Find out next week!

The Zoom Meeting Link is here:

https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86201752364?pwd=LnSPVYuBDGa5BEbFNy5SmENqcDsvpC.1

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We have no speakers lined-up for future months, and I've had no-one approach me, or volunteer themselves or another person. I'm feeling lonely over here, people. If you want a free line on your CV, and most importantly some feedback from a friendly crowd of expert TMS users, then please volunteer yourself to give a 15-minute talk and/or lead a discussion.

At present, I will fill-in the November meeting with a discussion of how I converted my first dataset to the new NIBS-BIDS format. If talking for an hour about re-naming hundreds of files doesn't fill you with joy, then you know what to do!

cheers,
Nick