On 1st and 2nd December, the French sports programme, Stade 2, visited the University of Kent to interview and film Dr Lex Mauger for an upcoming TV show on brain stimulation and sport.
The programme, aired on 8th January 2017, will be an in-depth report on the use of brain stimulation in sport, and the presenters travelled across the world (France, UK, USA) to speak to the sports teams using it, the companies producing the devices and the scientists examining the effects. Lex’s recent studies, published in Neuroscience (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306452216305589) and the European Journal of Applied Physiology (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00421-015-3212-y), are among the first to examine the effect of brain stimulation on sporting performance, and Lex discussed the findings of these and provided a demonstration of the methods as part of the filming.