Benjamin Kop
PhD in TUS & Neuromodulation | Cognitive Neuroscientist helping to drive innovation through tech & methods 🧠 | Low-key Illustrator finesse included ✨
- Reposted by Benjamin KopA brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing. Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br... Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
- Hold on to your transducers, TUS community! We've focused on managing what participants can hear during stimulation… but how about what they feel?! Our BrainStim paper maps tactile, thermal, & painful sensations during transcranial ultrasonic stimulation - and reveals how to minimize them. Thread👇
- Reposted by Benjamin Kop👀 Look to your left! Look to your right! I just 'stimulated' your frontal eye fields (FEFs)! 🧠 In our latest study, we developed a temporally precise Transcranial Ultrasonic Stimulation (TUS) protocol to modulate the human FEFs & uncover new insights into brain function!👇 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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- We applied TUS through the temples and measured participants' somatosensory experience at the stimulation site (VAS/threshold). We tested several stimulation protocols across three different transducers to identify avenues for confound mitigation.
- Reposted by Benjamin Kop[Highlight of the Month] Murphy et al. A practical guide to transcranial ultrasonic stimulation from the IFCN-endorsed ITRUSST consortium. Clin Neurophysiol 2025;171:192-226. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...
- Effects of 5Hz-rTUS (tbTUS) on corticospinal excitability are less robust than we initially thought. Check out my new preprint with @drcarysevans.bsky.social and Po-Yu Fong showing that offline excitatory TUS-TMS effects don't replicate. Thread below 👇 doi.org/10.1101/2024...
- Reposted by Benjamin KopI'm still missing lots of transcranial ultrasound neuromod folks on BlueSky, so trying to create a starter pack that I hope we can add many people to in the next weeks... please spread the word and let me know who I have missed out! go.bsky.app/EjjWSUyat://did:plc:nlbf6u6hm3thnmng7bc5atkw/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb5yo6dmub2s
