BrainStorm

Installation

Unzip the Files

Unzip the BrainStorm (BST) archive (about 60MB) into the directory of your choice, which will be your BrainStorm Home Directory (e.g. C:\BrainStorm).

While unzipping, be sure to preserve the directory paths in the zip file and not simply extract all files into a single directory (check the "unzip using the folder names" or alike in your zip utility).

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The result will be a BST home folder containing a single Matlab m-file startup.m and the following subfolders:

Custom	Optionally place any customized or personal m-files here that you would like to see interact with BST. This folder is first in the path when lauching BrainStorm
Documents	Help documents for BrainStorm, such as this one.
html	HTML help pages for each script in the BST toolbox
MNITemplate	Contains MRI data and surface envelope tessellations from the Montreal Neurological Institute. This template will serve for spatial brain normalizatoin of your own subjects.
Phantom	Contains also the brain template data (MRI volume and surface envelope tessellations) that you can duplicate as a dummy anatomy for your own subjects when you don't own their individual MR data.
PublicToolbox	Matlab toolboxes not developed by us but used by BrainStorm.
Toolbox	The collection of Matlab scripts known as BrainStorm.

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Starting Matlab

Change directory within Matlab to your BST home directory (e.g. cd C:\BrainStorm), then type startup. Alternatively, create a shortcut for starting Matlab , such that Matlab is launched from your BST home directory.

See how this looks like when you right click on the Matlab shorcut under Windows XP to make Matlab starts with BST automatically.

Onece BrainStorm is launched, you should then see this splashscreen image on your screen.

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Reset BrainStorm (Optional)

If you have previously run BrainStorm on your computer and you are installing a new version of BrainStorm , we recommend the following reset action. Start Matlab without starting BrainStorm . Change directory to the Toolbox directory located in BST home directory. Type brainstorm_reset at the Matlab command line.

The function will remove any BrainStorm preferences from within Matlab and delete any default database found in the BST home directory.

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One-time Default Actions

If BrainStorm has been reset or this is your first time launching BrainStorm, be patient! The startup script will create a new default database in your BST home directory. Answer the Copyright notice (which will continue to appear once a week).

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See Other Help Documents

Once BrainStorm is launched, see the other links to help solutions in the help menu of the BrainStorm StaticToolbar .

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