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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We
 are launching
the first study of the Team for TMS-EEG (T4TE) initiative and would be 
happy to involve interested labs and researcher of the Fieldtrip community.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">T4TE is inspired by other collaborative
initiatives that aim at improving research quality through the promotion of
large datasets acquisition, high methodological rigor, scientific transparency,
and data sharing in the field of neuroscience. <span></span></span></p>

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good practices and to better understand what is measured with TMS-EEG through a
wide joint effort.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">T4TE aims at fostering
collaboration community for projects aimed at testing
RELIABILITY, VALIDITY and BIOMARKERS DEVELOPMENT of specific TMS-EEG indexes
(e.g., TMS-Evoked Potentials, Global Mean Field Power, Natural Frequencies,
etc.).<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The first
study is focused on the TEPs obtained with the stimulation of M1 and it
aims at testing their reliability for variations in procedures across labs. The
study is designed to disentangle the effects of flexibility in data acquisition
and in data processing on TEPs. Moreover, it will investigate the direct effect
of flexibility on: a) the comparison of TEPs in trials of high and low cortical
excitability, as indexed by motor-evoked potentials (MEPs), and b) the effect
of prestimulus oscillations on TEPs.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This study is grounded on one of
the TMS-EEG indexes that are most studied in the literature but that still
presents several sources of variability and controversy. We hope that this
endeavour will be of benefit for the entire community.<span></span></span></p>

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registration to join the project until December 2022. For more information
about it and to check requirements, please visit our website at <a href="http://www.T4TE.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.T4TE.org</span></a><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span>L<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">abs
 where there is no previous experience in TMS-EEG coregistration are 
welcome to partecipate and can benefit of the collaboration with more 
experienced participating lab if they wish support.</span>

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first study, but are unsure whether you can meet all the set requirements,
please don’t hesitate to contact us. <br>
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For registering, sending questions or comments, please write to <a href="mailto:contact.T4TE@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">contact.T4TE@gmail.com</span></a><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The T4TE core team (Agnese,
Chiara, Julio, Marta, Mimma, Petro, Tuomas)</span></p>

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