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Montclair State University

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Neuroscience

Employing Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in a Resource Limited Environment to Establish Brain-Behavior Relationships

Taylor Shelansky¹, Katherine Chavarria¹, Kitty Pagano¹, Sarah Sierra¹, Vanessa Martinez¹, Nathira Ahmad¹, Janet Brenya¹, Aleksandra Janowska¹, Samantha Zorns¹, Abigail Straus¹, Victoria Mistretta¹, Brianna Balugas¹, Matthew Pardillo¹, Julian Paul Keenan¹

¹The Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory, Montclair State University

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and low-frequency TMS (lfTMS) have been demonstrated to be major contributors to brain literature. Here we highlight the methods for investigating the cortical correlates of self-deception using TMS.

Neuroscience

The Sol Braiding Method for Handling Thick Hair During Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: An Address for Potential Bias in Brain Stimulation

Qiana Archer¹, Janet Brenya¹, Katherine Chavaria², Anjel Friest³, Nathira Ahmad⁴, Samantha Zorns¹, Sahana Vaidya¹, Taylor Shelanskey¹, Sarah Sierra¹, Sydney Ash¹, Briana Balugus⁵, Alexa Alvarez⁶, Mathew Pardillo¹, Roy Hamilton⁷, Julian Paul Keenan¹

¹Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory, Montclair State University, ²School of Osteopathic Medicine, Rowan University, ³Department of Biology, Rutgers University, ⁴Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers University, ⁵Department of Physician Assistant, Seton Hall University, ⁶School of Nursing, Felician College, ⁷Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation, University of Pennsylvania

Hair type commonly seen in historically underrepresented minorities appears to interfere with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Here we describe a hair braiding method (The Sol Braiding Technique) that improves TMS.