Brainstorm courses
The best way to learn how to use Brainstorm, like any other academic software, is to benefit from local experts. However, you may be the first one in your institution to consider using Brainstorm for your research. We are happy to provide comprehensive online documentation and support through our forum but there is nothing better than a course to make your learning curve easier.
We organize courses for institutions who are willing to develop a user community for Brainstorm. All courses feature intensive hands-on practice of Brainstorm. Attendees bring their own laptops and go through most software features in a step-by-step, interactive way, with the assistance of at least two Brainstorm experts. No Matlab license required, runs on all operating systems! Our philosophy is to offer a personal first experience with using Brainstorm, that attendees will be able to keep alive on their laptops and share when back to their home institution. See links to reports from attendees to our previous courses below.
For the monthly MEG/EEG/e-phys meetups series, refer to this page.
Upcoming
USC, Los Angeles, California (USA): December 5th, 2024
One-day Brainstorm training, iEEG-oriented at the Univesity of Southern California
XX participants | Program
Breckenridge, Colorado, USA: March 3rd, 2025
One-day Brainstorm training, iEEG-oriented as part of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders 2025.
XX participants | Program
Hyderabad, India: April 7th, 2025
Brainstorm overview presentation and demo on EEG and MEG analysis as part of the Mapping Brain-Body-Behavior Signal Dynamics in Human Speech Production and Interaction (WMB&SPI) a Satellite Workshop of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025).
XX participants | Program
Previous trainings
Total number of participants: 2490
Boys Town, Nebraska (USA): October 9-11, 2024
Three-day Brainstorm training, MEG-oriented at Boys Town National Research Hospital
25 participants | Intro slides | Lecture slides | Walkthrough
Birmingham, UK: September 11, 2024
NIRSTORM 3-hour mini-course at the fNIRS 2024 conference
30 participants Conference website | Mini-Course program and data | Slides
UQTR, Trois-Rivières (Canada): May 7-8, 2024
Two-day Brainstorm training, EEG-oriented. Participants will process an EEG dataset to learn and explore Brainstorm features.
18 participants | Program | Intro slides | Lectures slides | Walkthrough
Park City, Utah (USA): April 1st, 2024
Full-day Brainstorm training, iEEG-oriented as part of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders 2024
65 participants | Program | Intro slides | Registration | Walkthrough
Little Rock, Arkansas (USA): January 24-26, 2024
Three-day Brainstorm training, MEG-oriented at Arkansas Children's Hospital
30 participants | Program | Intro slides | Lectures slides | Walkthrough
Los Angeles, USA: October 18th, 2023
One-day introduction to EEG analysis with Brainstorm (a CuttingGardens2023 event).
35 participants | Program | Slides | Walkthrough | Youtube Video | CuttingGarden2023_SymposiumLA
Jodhpur, India: July 2, 2023
One-day Brainstorm training at IIT Jodhpur, part of BrainWorkshop@SAIDE
25 participants | Program
Mumbai, India: June 28-30, 2023
Three-day Brainstorm training, EEG- and MEG-oriented at IIT Bombay.
27 participants | Program | Intro slides | Lectures slides | Walkthrough
Montreal, Canada: June 8th, 2023
Half-day introduction to Brainstorm, part of GSAN technical workshops at McGill.
19 participants | Program | Slides | Walkthrough
Aix-en-Provence, France: December 14-16, 2022
Three-day training as part of the PracticalMEEG workshop.
22 participants | Program | Walkthrough
Aix-en-Provence, France: October 4th, 2021
Half-day introduction to new SEEG tools, as part of the CuttingEEG conference.
21 participants | Program | Slides | Walkthrough
Montreal, Canada: August 19-20, 2021
Introduction to MEG analysis with Brainstorm, part of IPN Summer School at McGill University.
6 participants | Program | Survey | Slides PDF, PPTX | Walkthrough
Taller en vivo de Brainstorm y Q&A: Junio 2, 2021
Dos horas de taller de Brainstorm y, sesión de preguntas y respuestas. En Zoom.
30 participants | Descripción | Video | Live chat
Live Brainstorm workshop and Q&A: May 27, 2021
Two-hour online Brainstorm workshop and Q&A, live on Zoom.
70 participants | Description | Live chat
NIRSTORM Webinar: April 23rd, 2021
NIRSTORM Zoom Webinar, by Christophe Grova, Edouard Delaire and Zhengchen Cai.
Description | Recorded video | SfNIRS tutorials
Boston, USA: October 11-14, 2020
NIRSTORM Mini-Course at the fNIRS 2020 conference | Conference website
University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA: Oct 9, 2020
Two hour virtual demo of Brainstorm, EEG-focused, as part of the neuro-engineering workshop
130 participants | Video Part 1 | Video Part 2 | Slides
Zoom Workshop on Multi-unit Electrophysiology: May 22, 2020
Two hours free online Brainstorm workshop on the multi-unit electrophysiology toolbox.
115 participants | Watch on YouTube | Live chat
Live Brainstorm workshop and Q&A: April 29, 2020
Two hours online Brainstorm workshop and Q&A, live on Zoom.
155 participants |Watch on YouTube | Live chat
Montreal, Canada: January 29, 2020
NIRSTORM Mini-Course at Concordia University (fNIRS) | Course website
Sydney, Australia: December 11-12, 2019
Two-day Brainstorm training at the Workshop on Australasian Magnetoencephalography
20 participants | Conference website | Installation instructions
Paris, France: December 3-5, 2019
Practical workshop on EEG/MEG analysis at ICM, in parallel with FieldTrip and MNE-Python.
30 participants | Program (Brainstorm group) | Workshop website
Bochum, Germany: August 27, 2019
Session "Source analysis with open source tools" at the SuSIE 2019 conference
27 participants | Program
Montreal, Canada: June 4-5, 2019
McGill MEG Dayz: real-time imaging of the neural dynamics of brain systems. Included a hands-on session on machine learning decoding tools available in Brainstorm.
100 participants | Program
Baltimore, USA: March 14-15, 2019
Two full-day training sessions, EEG-oriented, at Johns Hopkins University.
26 participants | Program | Survey
Talca, Chile: December 4-6, 2018
Three full-day training sessions, EEG-oriented, at the Catholic University of the Maule
25 participants | Program | Registration | Survey | Pictures
Montreal, Canada: November 22, 2018
Introduction to EEG and ERP analysis with Brainstorm, as part of the NEUROQAM day.
20 participants | Program and registration
Paris, France: July 2, 2018
Half-day introduction to SEEG/ECOG analysis, as part of the CuttingEEG symposium.
26 participants | Program
Facebook live: May 25, 2018
Two hours overview of the software at the McGill School of Computer Science, broadcasted live on Facebook. 50+ live participants, 600+ views | Video | Dataset
Montreal, Canada: May 14-15, 2018
Two full-day training sessions, EEG and NIRS-oriented.
90 participants | Instructions | Survey | Pictures
Montreal, Canada: April 26, 2018
Cambridge, UK: June 9-11, 2017
Québec, Canada: May 16, 2017
Summer school at CINQ/RBIQ on brain connectivity (link).
20 participants | Requirements | Pictures
Montreal, Canada: May 1-2, 2017
Montreal, Canada: April 24-28, 2017
Full week MEG training: Instrumentation, paradigm design and data analysis.
12 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Beijing, China: April 9-10, 2017
Two-day training session after the 1st MEG conference in China.
40 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Montreal, Canada: November 7-11, 2016
Full week MEG training: Instrumentation, paradigm design and data analysis.
12 participants | Program | Pictures
San Diego, USA: November 10, 2016 (SfN conference)
University of Chicago NeuroImaging Workshop (Society for Social Neuroscience meeting).
Program.
Seoul, Korea: October 2, 2016 | Biomag
Biomag satellite meeting:
From raw MEG to publication: How to perform MEG group analysis with free academic software
Pittsburgh, USA: March 24-25, 2016
Grenoble, France: December 17-18, 2015
Geneva, Switzerland: December 14-15, 2015
Montreal, Canada: November 16-20, 2015
Full week MEG training: Instrumentation, paradigm design and data analysis.
12 participants | Program | Pictures
Los Angeles, USA: October 26-27, 2015
Brainstorm-BrainSuite training session (MEG/auditory).
24 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Seattle, USA: September 30, 2015
Full-day training session at the SPR annual meeting 2015 (EEG).
19 participants | Program | Pictures
Tübingen, Germany: September 10-11, 2015
Two-day course for the Max Planck Institute graduate students.
20 participants | Program
Marseille, France: May 26-27, 2015
Toronto, Canada: May 8, 2015
Matlab webinar: March 27, 2015
One-hour video to introduce the interface of the Brainstorm software, prepared in collaboration with the Mathworks, followed by an interactive Q&A session.
340 participants | Webinar page at Mathworks.com
Montreal, Canada: March 16-20, 2015
Full week MEG training: Instrumentation, paradigm design and data analysis.
12 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Oldenburg, Germany: December 18-19, 2014
Freiburg, Germany: December 16, 2014
Orlando, USA: October 16-17, 2014
MEG connectivity conference and Brainstorm full-day training session.
35 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Miami, USA: October 13-14, 2014
Murcia, Spain: September 30, 2014
Biomag/Halifax, Canada: August 29, 2014
Biomag 2014 satellite meeting. Full-day hands-on training session.
20 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Tehran, Iran: June 18, 2014
EEG workshop in a series of workshops of Visual Science.
27 participants | Program
Osaka, Japan: May 31, 2014
29th Annual Meeting of Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society.
70 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Taipei, Taiwan: May 26, 2014
Tübingen, Germany: May 23-24, 2014
Two-day course for the Max Planck Institute graduate students.
20 participants | Program
Aarhus, Denmark: December 10, 2013
Full-day hands-on training session for EEG and MEG users.
20 participants | Program
Montreal, Canada: October 24, 2013
Introduction to the Brainstorm time-frequency and functional connectivity tools, as part of the 4-day workshop "Scale-free dynamics and networks in neurosciences", organized by Philippe Ciuciu and Jean-Marc Lina on October 21-24, 2013
35 participants | Program
Florence, Italy: October 1st, 2013
Two day workshop joining SPM and Brainstorm, before the SPR annual meeting.
40 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Seattle, USA: June 21, 2013
HBM 2013 satellite meeting. Full-day hands-on training session.
35 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Moscow, Russia: April 24, 2013
BioN EEG/MEG methodological school. Full-day hands-on training session.
35 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Halifax, Canada: February 16, 2013
Full-day hands-on training session for EEG and MEG users.
40 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Montreal, Canada: December 6, 2012
Full-day hands-on training session for EEG and MEG users.
40 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Paris, France: August 31, 2012
Biomag 2012 satellite symposium: presentations from Brainstorm users and hands-on session.
55 participants | Program | Pictures | Survey
Montreal, Canada: July 11, 2012
Half-day MEG course, half-day Brainstorm practice (UQAM). This MEG and Brainstorm course was part of a 3-day practical workshop on brain imaging techniques that will immediately follow the UQAM's Summer School in Cognitive Science (June 29-July 11, 2012)
35 participants | Program
Boston, USA: April 28, 2012
Brainstorm course following the MIT's McGovern Institute Symposium: "Magnetoencephalography: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience", held on Friday, April 27, 2012.
90 participants | Pictures
Montreal, Canada: November 19, 2011
Full day of Brainstorm practice (MNI/McGill), initiated by the Canada MEG Consortium.
75 participants from around Canada gathered at the Montreal Neurological Institute (Nov 17-19, 2011) for a series of lectures and practical training on MEG acquisition, data analysis, imaging and a hands-on Brainstorm course. We have received great and positive feedback from our attendees, and we are glad the meeting has met its primary objectives of providing scientists with a first technical exposure to time-resolved brain exploration and imaging with MEG and Brainstorm.
Watch lecture from Sylvain Baillet @ the MIT's MEG Symposium
More pictures are available on the MEG@McGill group Facebook page.
Previous conferences and workshops
HBM 2011: June 26-30, 2011. Quebec City, Canada.
Biomag 2010: March 28 - April 1, 2010. Dubrovnik, Croatia.
HBM 2010: June 6 - June 10, 2010. Barcelona, Spain.
MEG & language workshop: Tadel F. October 2009. Neurospin, Paris, France.
HBM 2009: Baillet S, Tadel F. June 2009. San Francisco, USA.
MATLAB and biotechnologies seminar: Baillet S, Tadel F. October 2008. Paris, France.
HBM 2008: Baillet S, Tadel F. June 2008. Melbourne, Australia.
