Study design and confounds - TUS

This lecture focuses on common confounds in TUS research, and uses examples from the literature to demonstrate how the effects of such confounds could be misinterpreted as neuromodulatory effects. The goal of the lecture is to make students aware of common confounds, and introduce them to the experimental methods that can be used to counteract or control for such confounds.

At the end of this lecture, students will be able to appreciate how challenging it can be to disentangle the effects of confounds from true neuromodulatory effects, and plan appropriate experimental controls for their own studies.