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ArticleBrain stimulation

Four electric field modeling methods of Dosing Prefrontal Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): Introducing APEX MT dosimetry.

Kevin A Caulfield, Xingbao Li, Mark S George

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Article in Brain stimulation. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  9. Optimizing and assessing multichannel TMS focality.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  11. Mapping cortical excitability in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024
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  14. Electric-field-based dosing for TMS.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kevin A CaulfieldBrain Stimulation Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA. Electronic address: caulfiel@musc.edu.
Xingbao LiBrain Stimulation Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Mark S GeorgeBrain Stimulation Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA; Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC, USA.

Funding

Treating Depression and Enhancing Locomotor Recovery Post-strokeP20GM109040 · NIGMS · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI KAUTZ, STEVEN A. · 2014 to 2024
$23.5M
Techniques DevelopmentP2CHD086844 · NICHD · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI KAUTZ, STEVEN A. · 2015 to 2024
$12.7M
RTMS manipulates imbalanced drive-reward and executive control circuitry for smoking cessationUG3DA048507 · NIDA · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI LI, XINGBAO · 2021 to 2022
$711k
Developing rTMS as a Potential Treatment for Nicotine AddictionR21DA036752 · NIDA · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI LI, XINGBAO · 2014 to 2015
$408k
Personalizing tDCS Dose in Healthy Adults and Chronic Ischemic StrokeF31NS126019 · NINDS · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI CAULFIELD, KEVIN A. · 2022 to 2023
$81k
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD086844NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA036752NIDA NIH HHS UG3 DA048507NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM109040NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS126019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Motor CortexTranscranial Magnetic StimulationBrain MappingElectric StimulationDosingElectric field modelingFinite element methodMotor thresholdPrefrontalTranscranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Identifiers

PMID34186248
PMCPMC8866033

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