safety working group
Purpose: To establish recommendations and guidelines for safety of transcranial ultrasonic stimulation (TUS) neuromodulation in humans, including contraindications and reporting of adverse events. We will start from a safety guideline on testing healthy humans and expand (later) to patient-/disease-specific guidelines. We will also start from single-session testing and expand (later) to multi-session guidelines.
short-term goals
- To report on a review of literature concerning TUS safety
- To recommend a metric for mechanical and thermal safety (in collaboration with the Reporting and Planning focus groups)
- To recommend exclusion/inclusion criteria for healthy volunteers and patients (in collaboration with the Clinical focus group)
1 year goals (06/2022)
- To provide guidelines for mechanical and thermal safety
- To provide guidelines for exclusion/inclusion criteria for healthy volunteers and patients
members
| First name | Last name | Primary affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jean-Francois | Aubry | National Centre for Scientific Research | France |
| Seung-Schik | Yoo | Harvard University | USA |
| Andrew | Thomas | Brainbox Ltd. | UK |
| Anton | Fomenko | University of Toronto | Canada |
| Charles | Caskey | Vanderbilt University, Insitute of Imaging Science | USA |
| Charlotte | Stagg | University of Oxford | UK |
| Christopher | Butler | University of Oxford, Imperial College London | UK |
| David | Attali | ESPCI | France |
| Ellen | Bubrick | Brigham and Women’s Hospital | USA |
| Elsa | Fouragnan | Plymouth University | UK |
| Fidel | Vila-Rodriguez | The University of British Colombia | Canada |
| Ghazal | Darmani | Toronto | Canada |
| Jerome | Sallet | INSERM, university of Oxford | UK |
| Kim | Butts Pauly | Stanford University | USA |
| Lennart | Verhagen | Donders Institute | The Netherlands |
| Mark | Schafer | Drexel University/Brainsonix | USA |
| Robert | Chen | University Health Network | Canada |