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

Axel Thielscher, Gesa Hartwigsen, Hamed Ekhtiari, Peyman Ghobadi-Azbari, Andrea Antal, Lucia M. Li, A. Duke Shereen, Yuranny Cabral-Calderin, Daniel Keeser, Til Ole Bergmann, Asif Jamil, Ines R. Violante, Jorge Almeida, Marcus Meinzer, Hartwig R. Siebner, Adam J. Woods, Charlotte J. Stagg, Rany Abend, Daria Antonenko, Tibor Auer, Marc Bächinger, Chris Baeken, Helen C. Barron, Henry W. Chase, Jenny Crinion, Abhishek Datta, Matthew H. Davis, Mohsen Ebrahimi, Zeinab Esmaeilpour, Brian Falcone, Valentina Fiori, Iman Ghodratitoostani, Gadi Gilam, Roland H. Grabner, Joel D. Greenspan, Georg Groen, Tobias U. Hauser, Christoph S. Herrmann, Chi-Hung Juan, Bart Krekelberg, Stephanie Lefebvre, Sook-Lei Liew, Kristoffer H. Madsen, Rasoul Mahdavifar-Khayati, Nastaran Malmir, Paola Marangolo, Andrew K. Martin, Timothy J. Meeker, Hossein Mohaddes Ardabili, Marius Moisa, Davide Momi, Beni Mulyana, Alexander Opitz, Natasza Orlov, Patrick Ragert, Christian C. Ruff, Giulio Ruffini, Michaela Ruttorf, Arshiya Sangchooli, Klaus Schellhorn, Gottfried Schlaug, Bernhard Sehm, Ghazaleh Soleimani, Hosna Tavakoli, Benjamin Thompson, Dagmar Timmann, Aki Tsuchiyagaito, Martin Ulrich, Johannes Vosskuhl, Christiane A. Weinrich, Mehran Zare-Bidoky, Xiaochu Zhang, Benedikt Zoefel, Michael A. Nitsche, Marom Bikson

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Low-intensity transcranial electrical stimulation (tES), including alternating or direct current stimulation, applies weak electrical stimulation to modulate the activity of brain circuits. Integration of tES with concurrent functional MRI (fMRI) allows f
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