TMS SMART: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Scalp Mapping of Annoyance Ratings and Twitches

TMS-SMART (Meteyard & Holmes, 2018) is a method to select stimulation sites for human TMS studies which allows you to control for the subjective annoyance, pain, and muscle twitches, as well as for visible twitches and reaction time changes associated with single-pulse TMS at 43 different sites on the scalp. This website allows you to browse the data visually, and to retrieve suggested control site locations.Holmes & Meteyard (2018) also made a similar comparison between our annoyance ratings and a small meta-analysis of other studies. And we are also compiling a database of adverse events in TMS studies.

(this website works best in a desktop browser; we will improve it for mobile devices on the next major upgrade...)

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Median, ratings of twitches for the FC2 location, all coil orientations

LatOc3
2.25
TPJ1
3.62
ATL1
6.37
LatOc1
4.37
P7
2.62
CP5
1.5
T7
4.12
FC5
2.87
F7
6
AF3
2.37
LatIn1
3.25
O1
0.875
PO3
0.625
P3
0.5
CP1
0
C3
1.12
FC1
1
F3
1.37
FP1
2.75
Inion
2.5
OZ
0.875
PZ
0.0625
CZ
0.0625
FZ
0.75
LatIn2
2.62
O2
0.25
PO4
0
P4
0
CP2
0
C4
1.5
FC2
0.375
F4
1.25
FP2
1.87
LatOc2
3.75
P8
1.75
CP6
1.75
T8
3.12
FC6
2.37
F8
4.62
AF4
1.25
LatOc4
1.5
TPJ2
2.75
ATL2
5.5
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Or show control sites for a custom MNI coordinate:

Colours, bars, and percentages are relative to maximum possible values. Min & max of all orientations: {0,7}, range: {0,10}
Annoyance
0 (0%)
Pain
0 (0%)
Twitches
0.375 (3.7%)
VisibleTwitches
0 (0%)