Events

News and Events

• Registration is now open for our 5-day intensive non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) course, July 25-29 2022 in Mainz and Göttingen

  21 Feb 2022

• BEST toolbox makes the cover of Brain Stimulation 2022 1st Issue!

  2 Feb 2022

• New review out in Clinical Neurophysiology – Non-invasive transcranial ultrasound stimulation for neuromodulation

  24 Jan 2022

• New paper out in Cerebral Cortex – Individual Slow Wave Events Give Rise to Macroscopic fMRI Signatures and Drive the Strength of the BOLD Signal in Human Resting-State EEG-fMRI Recordings

  10 Jan 2022

• New paper out in Brain Stimulation – The Brain Electrophysiological recording and STimulation (BEST) Toolbox

  23 Nov 2021

• Til Ole Bergmann has received the John Rothwell Award for outstanding contributions to non-invasive brain stimulation research throughout his career. https://brainbox-initiative.com/awards/john-rothwell-award

  24 Sep 2021

• New review paper out in NeuroImage on “Concurrent TMS-fMRI for causal network perturbation and proof of target engagement”

  30 Apr 2021

• Major Grant received from the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation to start a robot-navigated transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) lab at the NIC!

  21 Sep 2020

• New review paper with Gesa Hartwigsen out in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience on “Inferring Causality From Noninvasive Brain Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience”.

  12 Jun 2020

• Using real-time EEG-triggered TMS of the human primary motor cortex we found that the sensorimotor mu-alpha (8-14 Hz) rhythm exerts pulsed facilitation (sic!) rather than inhibition of corticospinal excitability. Now out in J Neurosci!

  11 Dec 2019

• New JoVE Paper Out: Brain State-dependent Brain Stimulation with Real-time EEG-Triggered TMS

  20 Aug 2019

• Organized a 3-day workshop on Transcranial Brain Stimulation: From Basics to Advanced Applications

  25 Jun 2019

• TOBergmann Lab hosted The TACS Challenge’s April 2019 steering committee meeting at Mainz

  10 Apr 2019

• New Paper out: Distilling the essence of TMS-evoked EEG potentials (TEPs): a call for securing mechanistic specificity and experimental rigor

• New Paper Out: Probing cortical excitability using rapid frequency tagging

• PhD Position (65% TV-UM) – German Resilience Center (Deutsches Resilienz Zentrum, DRZ), Mainz, Germany

  1 Jan 2019

• Wonder what brain state-dependent brain stimulation (e.g., EEG-triggered TMS) is all about?

  31 Dec 2018

• The non-transcranial TMS-evoked potential is an inherent source of ambiguity in TMS-EEG studies

  31 Dec 2018

• Check out our new combined TACS-MEG paper, demonstarting that low-frequency oscillatory modulation of visual cortical excitability can phasically modulate the amplitude of visually induced gamma oscillations and impair perceptual performance

  31 Dec 2018

• Our new EEG-triggered TMS paper is out, demonstrateing that the sensorimotor mu-alpha rhythm amplitude is positively related to corticospinal excitability as measured with sing-epulse TMS of the primary motor cortex (M1)

  31 Dec 2018

• MAGIC – an open source MATLAB toolbox for external control of TMS devices

  31 Dec 2018

• Check out our Preview on Randolph Helfrich’s excellent paper on the role of precise phase alignment in slow oscillation to spindle phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) for memory conslidation during sleep, now available online in Neuron

  31 Dec 2018

• PhD Position (65% TV-L, 3 years) – Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research and Department of Neurology & Stroke, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Germany

  31 Dec 2017

• DFG project funding granted: The sensorimotor µ-rhythm as cholinergically controlled pulsed inhibition (DFG Project No. 362546008)

  31 Dec 2017

• Our new position paper on guiding transcranial brain stimulation by EEG/MEG is now available online in Clinical Neurophysiology

• Our new book chapter on the neuronal oscillations underlying memory consolidation during sleep is now available in the book Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory Consolidation, edited by Nikolai Axmacher and Björn Rasch

  31 Dec 2017

• Our conceptual opinion paper on the combination of non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation (NTBS) with neuroimaging and electrophysiology is now available online in NeuroImage

  31 Dec 2016

• Our chapter on modeling the effects of non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation is now available online in Progress in Brain Research

  31 Dec 2015

• Our TMS-EEG paper, showing that TMS-locked and spontaneous alpha oscillations in the visual cortex are modulated in the same (and opposite to the N40 TEP component) by top-down visual attention, is now available online in The Journal of Neuroscience

  31 Dec 2015

• Our concurrent TDCS-MEG paper on the attempt to transcranially modulate alpha and gamma oscillations in the visual cortex is now available online in NeuroImage

  31 Dec 2015

• Our DTI-MEG paper on the relationship of structural (superior longitudinal fasciculus, SLF1) and functional (top-down attentional alpha and gamma power modulation) hemispheric asymmetry, is now available online in PLoS Biology

  31 Jul 2019

• Our iEEG paper on hierarchical phase-power coupling of neocortical slow oscillations, thalamo-cortical spindles and hippocampal ripples, as demonstrated via intracranial recordings in the human hippocampus during Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, is now available online in Nature Neuroscience

  21 Sep 2015

• Our opinion paper on the potential of TMS-EEG measurements in stroke recovery is now available online in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

  31 Dec 2015

• Our concurrent TDCS-MEG paper on the attempt to transcranially modulate alpha and gamma oscillations in the visual cortex is now available online in NeuroImage

  31 Dec 2015

• Our TiNS paper on temporal coding by alpha-gamma phase-power coupling is now available online

  31 Dec 2014

• Donders Toolkit of Cognitive Neuroscience: transcranial brain stimulation September 2-4, 2013

  2 Sep 2013

• ALW Open Competiton grant awarded

  31 Dec 2013

• WORKSHOP on “Transcranial Brain Stimulation Techniques in Biological Psychology” June 6.-7. 2012, Jena, Germany

  6 Jun 2012

• SYMPOSIUM on “Transcranial Brain Stimulation in Biological Psychology” June 8.-10. 2012, Jena, Germany

  8 Jun 2012