Phivos Phylactou
MSCA Fellow | I make people play 3-second video games and then zap their brains with magnetic pulses to understand how memory works.
Nihilism survivor.
www.phivph.com
- Only one of the #TMS coils in the image below is shown on the same scale as the #brain that it is used to #stimulate. Brains are about 170mm from front to back. Magventure's beautiful B70 coil is 170mm wide $6M in research funding for anyone who can tell me which image is to scale 🤔 #TMSIsNotFocal
- TMSMultiLab kindly requests that you show TMS coils TO SCALE on your methods brain Figures. This looks like the tiniest #TMS coil ever invented. In reality, the coil would cover ~2/3 of the brain. Make coils GREAT again! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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- TMSMultiLab kindly requests that you show TMS coils TO SCALE on your methods brain Figures. This looks like the tiniest #TMS coil ever invented. In reality, the coil would cover ~2/3 of the brain. Make coils GREAT again! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
- A recently discovered brain network that links cognition and actions may have an important role in Parkinson’s disease and could improve its treatment, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/49VBuKI #Neuroskyence 🧪
- What if it is to scale? 🤔 What are they hiding?
- Nuclear-powered TMS?
- Or what if we all start using teeny tiny coils? We can call it TTTMS
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- Registration is open for our 2026 kNOw-PAIN Conference! Our conference this year features keynotes Dr. Margot Latimer, John R. Sylliboy, Dr. Norm Buckley, and Dr. Hance Clarke! To learn more and to register for the conference, visit our website at www.knowpain.ca/2026conference.
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- ⚡️⚡️⚡️TMS FRIDAY IS COMIMG⚡️⚡️⚡️
- The 12th TMSMultiLab meeting will be lead by Dr Giacomo Bertazzoli (orcid.org/0000-0003-16...) on "The NIBS-BIDS proposal" Friday 30th Jan, 14h GMT, Zoom All acronyms will be explained, but its about: #DataSharing #OpenScience #Standards #TMS #BrainStim github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
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- The 12th TMSMultiLab meeting will be lead by Dr Giacomo Bertazzoli (orcid.org/0000-0003-16...) on "The NIBS-BIDS proposal" Friday 30th Jan, 14h GMT, Zoom All acronyms will be explained, but its about: #DataSharing #OpenScience #Standards #TMS #BrainStim github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
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- Looking forward to the first Consciousness Club of the year tomorrow! @suryagayet.bsky.social will be talking to us about “Tracking perceptual competition with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT)” Wed 14th Jan at 11am UK time All welcome, to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
- Happy “forced to changed my university password and it will take a week for the resulting two-factor shitshow to finally subside on all devices” day to all who celebrate #AcademicSky
- We used to do real science
- Happy New Year everyone (we can still say that right?) New year... New workshops to announce... 🗓️ April 14th - 17th 🌐 Online format 🎓 Provides the equivalent of 2 full day post graduate level training. 🎟 Early Bird tickets until Feb Details here
- It ain't your grandparents' working memory. Synaptic Theory of Chunking in Working Memory elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... #neuroscience
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- Working on a principled way to describe the sample size, N, in #science papers. Will be attempting to prove Holmes' theorem over the next few years. Feedback welcome 🙏 #stats
- Correction: 25,895 tRAs
- TIL from @thehandlab.bsky.social that there are as many TMS related acronyms (tRA) as there are papers in the field.
- Is the correction for the ω-protocol?
- The Ω-protocol requires no correction. It is perfection.
- sneak preview of the #TMS #MetaAnalysis I've been working on for two years... this isn't the main result, but it's one of the prettiest graphs I've made in some time, so it's worth bragging about. there's a *lot* going on in this graph - to be explained in a (near?) future thread..! #BrainStim
- A year of #handstand progress. 🤸🏼♀️ Still a long game, but it's a fun one.
- Handstand update. #smallwins #longgame
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- All research is exploratory if you’re confused enough
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- Today at 14:00 GMT 👀🧠🧲⚡️
- This month's #TMS MultiLab meeting will be given by @phivph.com Phivos Phylactou, on: "The eyes are the window to t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ brain excitability" Friday 28th, 14:00 GMT 👀🧠🧲⚡️ Get the meeting link from our GitHub pages or Slack channel - get in touch if you can't find it! github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
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- I did an oral presentation today at St-Joseph's Hospital Joint Mental Health Research and Innovation Day about the pain and visual working memory study on which I have been working with @phivph.com. This was my first time presenting in a conference! Abstract can be found: heyzine.com/flip-book/ab...
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- That’s a wrap on the first batch of 25 participants, measuring MEG-EEG, ECG, respiration, electrogastrography, facial EMG, and EDA during story listening, mental imagery, and rest (+MRI & questionnaires 😅). Now I’m off on maternity leave while our amazing team continues with the next batch! 💪
- This month's #TMS MultiLab meeting will be given by @phivph.com Phivos Phylactou, on: "The eyes are the window to t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ brain excitability" Friday 28th, 14:00 GMT 👀🧠🧲⚡️ Get the meeting link from our GitHub pages or Slack channel - get in touch if you can't find it! github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
- It's our 11th Meeting, and the last of 2025. Anyone can join, but it probably helps if you like #BrainStim, #NeuroSkyence #Neuroscience #TMS See you there!
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- So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system. #interoception #neuroskyence
- How do internal bodily rhythms influence #brain activity & motor function? @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social &co show that #cardiac, #respiratory & #gastric rhythms independently modulate motor excitability, revealing distinct #interoceptive profiles across individuals @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4nMtpLT
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- Many thanks to the 60 gorgeous #TMS researchers who took a few minutes to complete our user survey. The quantitative results have been processed and summarised, and are now available in full on our GitHub page: github.com/TMSMultiLab/... A quick breakdown follows in this thread: #PieChartHeaven
- **Come work with us!!** Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Please share!!
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- Our next monthly meeting: Dr Daniel T Corp will talk about: Big NIBS data: a repository and pipeline for big data analyses in NIBS bignibsdata.com Friday 31st 🎃ctober at 14:00 GMT Meeting link via Slack & GitHub (link in profile) - join us! #TMS #BrainStim #NIBS
- Having a PhD means you can find the word “unfortunately” in an email faster that the search function
