Nigel C. Rogasch

Repetitive suprathreshold paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation alters corticospinal excitability

This study examines whether repetitive paired-pulse TMS induces offline changes in corticospinal excitability, finding that stimulation targeting inhibition reduces excitability for up to 40 minutes.

Investigating the Influence of Anti-Seizure Medications on Aperiodic EEG Activity

This study examines how two antiseizure medications affect aperiodic and periodic EEG activity in healthy volunteers.

An Integrated EEG, TMS-EEG and Behavioural Dataset for Investigating the Neural Correlates of Working Memory

The paper presents a dataset of EEG, TMS-EEG, and behavioural data from 123 healthy adults to study the neural correlates of working memory.

Cumulative timing-dependent changes in corticospinal excitability during suprathreshold paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation

This study shows that repeated suprathreshold paired-pulse TMS at short inter-stimulus intervals increases corticospinal excitability over time, suggesting potential for modulating motor system activity.

Characterising and Minimising Step and Filtering Artifacts in TMS-EEG Recordings

The paper identifies and mitigates a step-drift artifact in TMS-EEG recordings through a processing pipeline involving polynomial detrending and modified filtering.

Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Data Analysis Structure (NIBS-DAS): A Template for the Layout, Management, and Analysis of NIBS Data

The paper introduces NIBS-DAS, a template for structuring, managing, and analyzing NIBS data to improve data sharing and standardization.

Mild traumatic brain injury alters function in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: a TMS-EEG study.

This study investigates how mild traumatic brain injury affects neurophysiological functions in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex using TMS-EEG, finding reduced inhibition and plasticity with some contradictory spectral responses.

EEG is better when cleaning effectively targets artifacts

The paper shows that targeted artifact cleaning in EEG improves signal preservation and reduces effect size inflation and source localization biases compared to traditional methods.

Default mode and motor networks facilitate early learning of implicit motor sequences: a multimodal MR spectroscopy and fMRI study

This study investigates implicit motor sequence learning using multimodal neuroimaging, showing early learning links to default mode network connectivity and motor network connectivity for sustained learning.

Task-related changes in aperiodic activity are related to visual working memory capacity independent of event-related potentials and alpha oscillations

The paper examines task-related changes in aperiodic EEG activity and finds they correlate with working memory capacity independently of ERPs and alpha oscillations.

Experienced meditators show greater forward travelling cortical alpha wave strengths

This study finds that experienced meditators have stronger forward traveling cortical alpha waves and weaker backward traveling alpha waves compared to non-meditators during rest and a cognitive task.

Supplementary motor area disinhibition during motor sequence learning: A TMS-EEG study

This study uses TMS-EEG to show disinhibition in the supplementary motor area during motor sequence learning, as indicated by reduced N45 amplitudes and increased aperiodic exponents.

Neurodesk: An accessible, flexible, and portable data analysis environment for reproducible neuroimaging

Neurodesk provides a portable and reproducible neuroimaging analysis platform using software containers to enable accessible and flexible data analysis pipelines.

Characterising the contribution of auditory and somatosensory inputs to TMS-evoked potentials following stimulation of prefrontal, premotor and parietal cortex

This study investigates how auditory and somatosensory inputs contribute to TMS-evoked potentials (TEPs) in different cortical regions and finds that later TEPs reflect sensory input while earlier peaks reflect cortical stimulation.

Introducing RELAX (the Reduction of Electroencephalographic Artifacts): A fully automated pre-processing pipeline for cleaning EEG data - Part 1: Algorithm and Application to Oscillations

RELAX is an automated EEG preprocessing pipeline that effectively reduces artifacts while preserving neural signals, outperforming existing methods in blink and muscle artifact removal.

Introducing RELAX (the Reduction of Electroencephalographic Artifacts): A fully automated pre-processing pipeline for cleaning EEG data - Part 2: Application to Event-Related Potentials

This paper evaluates the RELAX pipeline for cleaning EEG data before ERP analysis, finding it effective and reliable for artifact reduction and ERP estimation.

Meditators probably show increased behaviour-monitoring related neural activity

The paper investigates whether experienced meditators show differences in neural activity related to performance monitoring and error-processing using EEG, finding larger global field potentials in the Pe for meditators but with mixed statistical significance.

Utilising TMS-EEG to assess the response to cerebellar-brain inhibition

This study investigates using TMS-EEG to assess cerebellar-brain inhibition (CBI) responses, finding that specific coils alter EEG potentials related to motor inhibition.

Designing and comparing cleaning pipelines for TMS-EEG data: a theoretical overview and practical example

The paper compares TMS-EEG cleaning pipelines, showing how changes in pipeline steps affect TEPs and emphasizes the need for multiple pipeline comparisons to ensure reliable results.

A single- and paired-pulse TMS-EEG investigation of the N100 and long interval cortical inhibition in autism spectrum disorder

This study investigates GABA-mediated cortical inhibition in adults with ASD using TMS-EEG and finds no group differences in N100 amplitude or latency, or in long interval cortical inhibition.

Regular aerobic exercise is positively associated with hippocampal structure and function in young and middle-aged adults

This study finds that regular aerobic exercise and cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with improved hippocampal structure and function in young to middle-aged adults.

No evidence for changes in GABA concentration, functional connectivity, or working memory following continuous theta burst stimulation over dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

This study investigates whether cTBS over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex affects GABA concentration, functional connectivity, and working memory, finding no significant changes.

The influence of somatosensory and auditory evoked potentials on concurrent transcranial-magnetic stimulation electroencephalography recordings

This study investigates how somatosensory and auditory evoked potentials affect TMS-EEG recordings and finds that sensory contamination in TEPs is non-linear and significant beyond 70ms post-stimulation.

The effects of multi-day rTMS and cardiorespiratory fitness on working memory and local GABA concentration

This study examines the effects of multi-day rTMS and cardiorespiratory fitness on working memory and GABA concentration, finding no benefit from parietal rTMS but some improvement with pre-SMA rTMS and fitness.

Age differences in aperiodic neural activity measured with resting EEG

This study examines age differences in aperiodic neural activity using resting EEG, finding that older adults have flatter 1/f-like slopes and lower broadband power, which affects alpha oscillation measures.

Dynamical consequences of regional heterogeneity in the brains transcriptional landscape

This study shows that regional transcriptional heterogeneity in excitatory and inhibitory receptor gene expression improves the accuracy of models of brain functional connectivity and supports complex neuronal dynamics.

Assessing cerebellar-cortical connectivity using concurrent TMS-EEG: A Feasibility Study

This study assesses the feasibility of using cerebellar TMS-EEG to explore cerebellar-cerebral network dynamics, finding that artefacts and sensory contamination complicate interpretation of early latency signals.

The correspondence between EMG and EEG measures of changes in cortical excitability following transcranial magnetic stimulation

This study investigates the relationship between TEPs and conditioned-MEPs to determine if they reflect the same cortical response following TMS.

The role of alpha power in the suppression of anticipated distractors during verbal working memory

This study investigates how alpha power relates to inhibiting anticipated distractors in verbal working memory, finding increased alpha power before distractors but no effect of distractor strength.

Load-dependent modulation of alpha oscillations during working memory encoding and retention in young and older adults

This study examines how alpha oscillations change with working memory load in young and older adults, finding similar load-dependent patterns but differences in alpha power during retention.