A checklist for assessing the methodological quality of concurrent tES-fMRI studies (ContES checklist): a consensus study and statement

Affiliations

• ¹ Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA. [email protected].
• ² Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.
• ³ Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
• ⁴ Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.
• ⁵ Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
• ⁶ Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
• ⁷ Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Imaging Lab, Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ⁸ UK DRI Centre for Care Research and Technology, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ⁹ Advanced Science Research Center, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁰ Research Group Neural and Environmental Rhythms, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany.
• ¹¹ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ¹² Department of Radiology, University Hospital LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ¹³ NeuroImaging Core Unit Munich (NICUM), University Hospital LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
• ¹⁴ Neuroimaging Center (NIC), Focus Program Translational Neuroscience (FTN), Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany.
• ¹⁵ Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Department of Neurology and Stroke and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Department of Psychology and Neurosciences, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund, Germany.
• ¹⁸ School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
• ¹⁹ Proaction Lab, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
• ²⁰ CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
• ²¹ Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ²² Department of Neurology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
• ²³ Department of Neurology, Copenhagen University Hospital Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ²⁴ Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ²⁵ Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory, McKnight Brain Institute, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
• ²⁶ Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, FMRIB, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
• ²⁷ Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ²⁸ Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ²⁹ Neural Control of Movement Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ³⁰ Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ³¹ Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
• ³² Department of Psychiatry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University Hospital Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
• ³³ Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
• ³⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• ³⁵ Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK.
• ³⁶ Research and Development, Soterix Medical, New York, USA.
• ³⁷ The City College of the City University of New York, New York, USA.
• ³⁸ MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
• ³⁹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York of CUNY, New York, NY, USA.
• ⁴⁰ Northrop Grumman Company, Mission Systems, Falls Church, VA, USA.
• ⁴¹ Department of Clinical and Behavioral Neurology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy.
• 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 Systems Neuroscience and Pain Laboratory, Division of Pain Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
• ⁴⁴ The Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
• ⁴⁵ Educational Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
• ⁴⁶ Department of Neural and Pain Sciences, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁴⁷ Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
• ⁴⁸ Lise Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁴⁹ Max Planck University College London Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, University College London, London, UK.
• ⁵⁰ Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK.
• ⁵¹ Experimental Psychology Lab, Cluster of Excellence "Hearing4all", European Medical School, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
• ⁵² Neuroimaging Unit, European Medical School, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
• ⁵³ Research Centre Neurosensory Science, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
• ⁵⁴ Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• ⁵⁵ Cognitive Intelligence and Precision Healthcare Research Center, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
• ⁵⁶ Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, NJ, USA.
• ⁵⁷ Translational Research Centre, University Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁵⁸ Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ⁵⁹ USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ⁶⁰ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ⁶¹ Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ⁶² Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, K, Lyngby, Denmark.
• ⁶³ Department of Humanities Studies, University Federico II, Naples, Italy.
• ⁶⁴ Aphasia Research Lab, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy.
• ⁶⁵ Department of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
• ⁶⁶ Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁶⁷ Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Ibn-e-Sina Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
• ⁶⁸ Student Research Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
• ⁶⁹ Zurich Center for Neuroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ⁷⁰ Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁷¹ Laureate Institute for Brain Research, Tulsa, OK, USA.
• ⁷² Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
• ⁷³ Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
• ⁷⁴ Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁷⁵ Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
• ⁷⁶ Department of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland.
• ⁷⁷ Institute for General Kinesiology and Exercise Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁷⁸ Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁷⁹ Neuroelectrics Corporation, Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ⁸⁰ Neuroelectrics Corporation, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁸¹ Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
• ⁸² neuroConn GmbH, Ilmenau, Germany.
• ⁸³ 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, USA.
• ⁸⁴ Department of Neurology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
• ⁸⁵ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
• ⁸⁶ Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute for Cognitive Sciences Studies, Tehran, Iran.
• ⁸⁷ School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
• ⁸⁸ School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁸⁹ Centre for Eye and Vision Research, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• ⁹⁰ Department of Neurology and Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences (C-TNBS), Essen University Hospital, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
• ⁹¹ Department of Cognitive Neurology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
• ⁹² Shahid-Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
• ⁹³ Department of Psychology, School of Humanities & Social Science, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China.
• ⁹⁴ Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), CNRS, Toulouse, France.
• ⁹⁵ Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
• ⁹⁶ Department of Neurology, University Medical Hospital Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Germany.