Brain Stimulation Equipment

BSL Hardware and Equipment (January 2007)
5th Floor, Institute of Psychiatry North

Dr. Ziad Nahas demonstrates the TMS techniques on Dr. Ananda Shastri (circa 1999).

TMS machines:

Cadwell® High Speed MES-10 (with a water-cooled figure-eight coil) (C in the figure above),
Dantec® Magpro (with a figure-eight and a round coil) (A),
Neotonus® Model 1000 (with a solid focal coil) (D),
NeoPulse Neotonus® Model 3600 (with a solid focal coil and a sham coil) (not in picture)
The same system overseen by Neuronetics
Magstim® Rapid aircooled (with a figure eight coil and a double-coned coil for deeper stimulation) (E).
The most recent Magstim system, for doing paired pulse studies.
A Neuronetics System for the OPT-TMS clinical trial.

Dr. Raffaella Ricci and Ashley Arana set up the OPT-TMS treatment system, employing a TMS machine, headholder, and active sham system.

We also have Dantec and Magstim machines used in the MRI suite for interleaved TMS/fMRI imaging studies.

Other Equipment:

Our group has pioneered a closed loop method of evaulating motor thresholds and cortical excitability. Read more about it here.

1 Dantec® Cantata EMG machine used for determining motor thresholds (B)

2 Brainsight Stereotaxic Frameless systems for positioning TMS based on anatomical or functional images

2 customized 'Dental Chairs' with a TMS coil holder used in all TMS sessions in an effort to standardize administration.

2 Cyberonics® Programming Wands and laptops/PDA's for Vagus Nerve Stimulation.

an IOMED® Phoresor II Auto Model PM800 for transcranial electrical depolarisation.

4 SPARC Stations for image analysis

3 MacIntosh G4 computers with advanced display for neuropsychological studies

1 Mac6 resting ECG analysis system, a phlebotomy chair, 1 exam table, 1 refrigerator, Sorvall RT 6000D centrifuge, 1 blood pressure cuff, 1 ophthalmoscope, 1 nasal oxygen supply, 1 emergency cart.