A Helmet for Mobile Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Link to study: Badran et al. 2020

Overview:

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) administration currently necessitates trained operators and equipment to hold the coil in place over specific brain targets(1), limiting its application in ambulatory, hospital or home settings.

We have developed custom, individually-tailored TMS helmets that allow one to administer TMS in diverse settings where trained TMS operators are unavailable or the experiment or treatment involves movement such as ambulatory, extreme environments, or potentially at home. Here we overview how we constructed helmets that fix a TMS coil into position over a participant’s motor hotspot (Figure 1a,b) and describe its stepwise fabrication with video accompaniment (Supplemental Video). We also present within- and between-visit reliability resting motor thresholds (rMT) while wearing the helmets.