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A Checklist for Assessing the Methodological Quality of Concurrent Tes-Fmri Studies (Contes Checklist): A Consensus Study and Statement Publisher Pubmed



Ekhtiari H1 ; Ghobadiazbari P2, 3 ; Thielscher A4, 5 ; Antal A6 ; Li LM7, 8 ; Shereen AD9 ; Cabralcalderin Y10 ; Keeser D11, 12, 13 ; Bergmann TO14, 15, 16 ; Jamil A17 ; Violante IR18 ; Almeida J19, 20 ; Meinzer M21, 22 ; Siebner HR4, 23, 24 Show All Authors
Authors
  1. Ekhtiari H1
  2. Ghobadiazbari P2, 3
  3. Thielscher A4, 5
  4. Antal A6
  5. Li LM7, 8
  6. Shereen AD9
  7. Cabralcalderin Y10
  8. Keeser D11, 12, 13
  9. Bergmann TO14, 15, 16
  10. Jamil A17
  11. Violante IR18
  12. Almeida J19, 20
  13. Meinzer M21, 22
  14. Siebner HR4, 23, 24
  15. Woods AJ25
  16. Stagg CJ26, 27
  17. Abend R28
  18. Antonenko D22
  19. Auer T18
  20. Bachinger M29, 30
  21. Baeken C31, 32, 33
  22. Barron HC26, 27
  23. Chase HW34
  24. Crinion J35
  25. Datta A36, 37
  26. Davis MH38
  27. Ebrahimi M3
  28. Esmaeilpour Z39
  29. Falcone B40
  30. Fiori V41
  31. Ghodratitoostani I42
  32. Gilam G43, 44
  33. Grabner RH45
  34. Greenspan JD46
  35. Groen G47
  36. Hartwigsen G48
  37. Hauser TU49, 50
  38. Herrmann CS51, 52, 53
  39. Juan CH54, 55
  40. Krekelberg B56
  41. Lefebvre S57
  42. Liew SL58, 59, 60, 61
  43. Madsen KH4, 62
  44. Mahdavifarkhayati R2
  45. Malmir N3
  46. Marangolo P63, 64
  47. Martin AK21, 65
  48. Meeker TJ66
  49. Ardabili HM67, 68
  50. Moisa M69
  51. Momi D70
  52. Mulyana B1
  53. Opitz A71
  54. Orlov N72, 73, 74, 75
  55. Ragert P76, 77
  56. Ruff CC69
  57. Ruffini G78, 79
  58. Ruttorf M80
  59. Sangchooli A3
  60. Schellhorn K81
  61. Schlaug G82
  62. Sehm B77, 83
  63. Soleimani G84
  64. Tavakoli H3, 85
  65. Thompson B86, 87, 88
  66. Timmann D89
  67. Tsuchiyagaito A1
  68. Ulrich M47
  69. Vosskuhl J51
  70. Weinrich CA6, 90
  71. Zarebidoky M3, 91
  72. Zhang X92
  73. Zoefel B38, 93, 94
  74. Nitsche MA17, 95
  75. Bikson M39
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Authors Affiliations
  1. 1. Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, United States
  2. 2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
  5. 5. Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
  6. 6. Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
  7. 7. Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Imaging Lab, Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
  8. 8. UK DRI Centre for Care Research and Technology, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
  9. 9. Advanced Science Research Center, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States
  10. 10. Research Group Neural and Environmental Rhythms, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany
  11. 11. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
  12. 12. Department of Radiology, University Hospital LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
  13. 13. NeuroImaging Core Unit Munich (NICUM), University Hospital LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
  14. 14. Neuroimaging Center (NIC), Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
  15. 15. Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany
  16. 16. Department of Neurology and Stroke and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
  17. 17. Department of Psychology and Neurosciences, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany
  18. 18. School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
  19. 19. Proaction Lab, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
  20. 20. CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
  21. 21. Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
  22. 22. Department of Neurology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
  23. 23. Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
  24. 24. Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  25. 25. Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory, McKnight Brain Institute, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
  26. 26. Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, FMRIB, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
  27. 27. Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
  28. 28. Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
  29. 29. Neural Control of Movement Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
  30. 30. Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  31. 31. Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
  32. 32. Department of Psychiatry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University Hospital Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
  33. 33. Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  34. 34. Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
  35. 35. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom
  36. 36. Research and Development, Soterix Medical, New York, United States
  37. 37. The City College of the City University of New York, New York, United States
  38. 38. MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  39. 39. Department of Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York of CUNY, New York, NY, United States
  40. 40. Northrop Grumman Company, Mission Systems, Falls Church, VA, United States
  41. 41. Department of Clinical and Behavioral Neurology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
  42. 42. Neurocognitive Engineering Laboratory (NEL), Center for Engineering Applied to Health, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC), University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  43. 43. Systems Neuroscience and Pain Laboratory, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States
  44. 44. The Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
  45. 45. Educational Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
  46. 46. Department of Neural and Pain Sciences, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, MD, United States
  47. 47. Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
  48. 48. Lise Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
  49. 49. Max Planck University College London Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom
  50. 50. Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom
  51. 51. Experimental Psychology Lab, Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all�, European Medical School, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
  52. 52. Neuroimaging Unit, European Medical School, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
  53. 53. Research Centre Neurosensory Science, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
  54. 54. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
  55. 55. Cognitive Intelligence and Precision Healthcare Research Center, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
  56. 56. Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University–Newark, Newark, NJ, United States
  57. 57. Translational Research Centre, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  58. 58. Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
  59. 59. USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
  60. 60. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
  61. 61. Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
  62. 62. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, K, Lyngby, Denmark
  63. 63. Department of Humanities Studies, University Federico II, Naples, Italy
  64. 64. Aphasia Research Lab, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
  65. 65. Department of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
  66. 66. Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
  67. 67. Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Ibn-e-Sina Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
  68. 68. Student Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
  69. 69. Zurich Center for Neuroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  70. 70. Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, ON, Canada
  71. 71. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
  72. 72. Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
  73. 73. Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
  74. 74. Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
  75. 75. Department of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
  76. 76. Institute for General Kinesiology and Exercise Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  77. 77. Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
  78. 78. Neuroelectrics Corporation, Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States
  79. 79. Neuroelectrics Corporation, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  80. 80. Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
  81. 81. neuroConn GmbH, Ilmenau, Germany
  82. 82. Neuroimaging-Neuromodulation and Stroke Recovery Laboratories, Department of Neurology, Baystate–University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
  83. 83. Department of Neurology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
  84. 84. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
  85. 85. Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute for Cognitive Sciences Studies, Tehran, Iran
  86. 86. School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  87. 87. School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
  88. 88. Centre for Eye and Vision Research, Hong Kong
  89. 89. Department of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), Essen University Hospital, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
  90. 90. Department of Cognitive Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
  91. 91. Shahid-Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
  92. 92. Department of Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Science, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China
  93. 93. Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), CNRS, Toulouse, France
  94. 94. Universite Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  95. 95. Department of Neurology, University Medical Hospital Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Germany

Source: Nature Protocols Published:2022


Abstract

Low-intensity transcranial electrical stimulation (tES), including alternating or direct current stimulation, applies weak electrical stimulation to modulate the activity of brain circuits. Integration of tES with concurrent functional MRI (fMRI) allows for the mapping of neural activity during neuromodulation, supporting causal studies of both brain function and tES effects. Methodological aspects of tES-fMRI studies underpin the results, and reporting them in appropriate detail is required for reproducibility and interpretability. Despite the growing number of published reports, there are no consensus-based checklists for disclosing methodological details of concurrent tES-fMRI studies. The objective of this work was to develop a consensus-based checklist of reporting standards for concurrent tES-fMRI studies to support methodological rigor, transparency and reproducibility (ContES checklist). A two-phase Delphi consensus process was conducted by a steering committee (SC) of 13 members and 49 expert panelists through the International Network of the tES-fMRI Consortium. The process began with a circulation of a preliminary checklist of essential items and additional recommendations, developed by the SC on the basis of a systematic review of 57 concurrent tES-fMRI studies. Contributors were then invited to suggest revisions or additions to the initial checklist. After the revision phase, contributors rated the importance of the 17 essential items and 42 additional recommendations in the final checklist. The state of methodological transparency within the 57 reviewed concurrent tES-fMRI studies was then assessed by using the checklist. Experts refined the checklist through the revision and rating phases, leading to a checklist with three categories of essential items and additional recommendations: (i) technological factors, (ii) safety and noise tests and (iii) methodological factors. The level of reporting of checklist items varied among the 57 concurrent tES-fMRI papers, ranging from 24% to 76%. On average, 53% of checklist items were reported in a given article. In conclusion, use of the ContES checklist is expected to enhance the methodological reporting quality of future concurrent tES-fMRI studies and increase methodological transparency and reproducibility. © 2022, The Author(s).
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