Benjamin Kop
@ben-kop.bsky.social
PhD in TUS & Neuromodulation | Cognitive Neuroscientist helping to drive innovation through tech & methods 🧠 | Low-key Illustrator finesse included ✨
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Benjamin Kop
@ben-kop.bsky.social
· Jun 19
Parameter optimisation for mitigating somatosensory confounds during transcranial ultrasonic stimulation
Transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) redefines what is possible with non-invasive
neuromodulation by offering unparalleled spatial precision and flexible targeting
capabilities. However, peripher...
www.brainstimjrnl.com
Hold on to your transducers, TUS community! We've focused on managing what participants can hear during stimulation… but how about what they feel?! Our BrainStim paper maps tactile, thermal, & painful sensations during transcranial ultrasonic stimulation - and reveals how to minimize them. Thread👇
Reposted by Benjamin Kop
A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing.
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
Brain Injury During Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Substance Use Disorder
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing.
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
Hold on to your transducers, TUS community! We've focused on managing what participants can hear during stimulation… but how about what they feel?! Our BrainStim paper maps tactile, thermal, & painful sensations during transcranial ultrasonic stimulation - and reveals how to minimize them. Thread👇
Parameter optimisation for mitigating somatosensory confounds during transcranial ultrasonic stimulation
Transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) redefines what is possible with non-invasive
neuromodulation by offering unparalleled spatial precision and flexible targeting
capabilities. However, peripher...
www.brainstimjrnl.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Hold on to your transducers, TUS community! We've focused on managing what participants can hear during stimulation… but how about what they feel?! Our BrainStim paper maps tactile, thermal, & painful sensations during transcranial ultrasonic stimulation - and reveals how to minimize them. Thread👇
Reposted by Benjamin Kop
👀 Look to your left! Look to your right! I just 'stimulated' your frontal eye fields (FEFs)! 🧠 In our latest study, we developed a temporally precise Transcranial Ultrasonic Stimulation (TUS) protocol to modulate the human FEFs & uncover new insights into brain function!👇
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Rapid modulation of choice behavior by ultrasound on the human frontal eye fields
A fundamental challenge in neuroscience is establishing causal brain-function relationships with spatial and temporal precision. Transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) offers a unique opportunity t...
doi.org
April 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
👀 Look to your left! Look to your right! I just 'stimulated' your frontal eye fields (FEFs)! 🧠 In our latest study, we developed a temporally precise Transcranial Ultrasonic Stimulation (TUS) protocol to modulate the human FEFs & uncover new insights into brain function!👇
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Benjamin Kop
[Highlight of the Month] Murphy et al. A practical guide to transcranial ultrasonic stimulation from the IFCN-endorsed ITRUSST consortium. Clin Neurophysiol 2025;171:192-226. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...
March 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
[Highlight of the Month] Murphy et al. A practical guide to transcranial ultrasonic stimulation from the IFCN-endorsed ITRUSST consortium. Clin Neurophysiol 2025;171:192-226. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...
Effects of 5Hz-rTUS (tbTUS) on corticospinal excitability are less robust than we initially thought. Check out my new preprint with @drcarysevans.bsky.social and Po-Yu Fong showing that offline excitatory TUS-TMS effects don't replicate. Thread below 👇 doi.org/10.1101/2024...
November 28, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Effects of 5Hz-rTUS (tbTUS) on corticospinal excitability are less robust than we initially thought. Check out my new preprint with @drcarysevans.bsky.social and Po-Yu Fong showing that offline excitatory TUS-TMS effects don't replicate. Thread below 👇 doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Reposted by Benjamin Kop
I'm still missing lots of transcranial ultrasound neuromod folks on BlueSky, so trying to create a starter pack that I hope we can add many people to in the next weeks... please spread the word and let me know who I have missed out!
go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy
go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy
November 17, 2024 at 6:08 PM
I'm still missing lots of transcranial ultrasound neuromod folks on BlueSky, so trying to create a starter pack that I hope we can add many people to in the next weeks... please spread the word and let me know who I have missed out!
go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy
go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy
TUS holds great potential for neuroscience and clinical applications, but its success requires careful control for peripheral confounds. Let’s ensure noise doesn’t derail this powerful technology! Check out our eLife paper: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Thread below 👇
Auditory confounds can drive online effects of transcranial ultrasonic stimulation in humans
Realizing the clinical and neuroscientific potential of transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) requires careful control of the peripheral auditory confounds that underlie previously reported online...
doi.org
November 21, 2024 at 11:14 AM
TUS holds great potential for neuroscience and clinical applications, but its success requires careful control for peripheral confounds. Let’s ensure noise doesn’t derail this powerful technology! Check out our eLife paper: doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Thread below 👇