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 steeper.

We organize courses for institutions who are willing to develop a user community for Brainstorm. Please contact us to get you started locally.

Upcoming Brainstorm courses

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.

Biomag/Halifax, Canada: August 29, 2014

Purpose: Biomag 2014 satellite meeting. Full-day hands-on training session.
Registration: Click here

Murcia, Spain: September 30, 2014

Purpose: Full-day training session, EEG-oriented.
Registration: Click here

Miami, USA: October 13-14, 2014

Purpose: Two-day training session, EEG-oriented.
Registration: Click here

Orlando, USA: October 16-17, 2014

Purpose: MEG connectivity conference and Brainstorm full-day training session.
Registration: Click here

Freiburg, Germany: December 16, 2014

Purpose: Full-day training session: EEG, ECOG and epilepsy.
Registration: Click here.

Oldenburg, Germany: December 18-19, 2014

Purpose: Two-day training session: MEG and EEG.
Registration: Click here.

Past Brainstorm courses

Total number of participants: 680

Osaka, Japan: May 31, 2014

Purpose: 29th Annual Meeting of Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society.
Program: Click here
Survey: Review the results
Participants: 70

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Tehran, Iran, June 18th 2014

Purpose: EEG workshop in a series of workshops of Visual Science.
Program: Click here
Participants: 27

Taipei, Taiwan: May 26, 2014

Program: Click here
Survey: Review the results
Participants: 65

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Tübingen, Germany: May 23-24, 2014

Purpose: Two-day course for the Max Planck Institute graduate students.
Program: Click here
Participants: 20

Aarhus, Denmark: December 10, 2013

Purpose: Full-day hands-on training session for EEG and MEG users.
Program: Click here
Participants: 20

Montreal, Canada: October 24, 2013

Purpose: 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
Program: Click here
Participants: 35

Florence, Italy: October 1st, 2013

Purpose: Two day workshop joining SPM and Brainstorm, before the SPR annual meeting.
Program: Click here
Survey: Review the results
Participants: 40

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Seattle, USA: June 21, 2013

Purpose: HBM 2013 satellite meeting. Full-day hands-on training session.
Program: Click here
Survey: Review the results
Participants: 35

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Moscow, Russia: April 24, 2013

Purpose: BioN EEG/MEG methodological school. Full-day hands-on training session.
Program: Click here
Survey: Review the results
Participants: 35

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Halifax, Canada: February 16, 2013

Purpose: Full-day hands-on training session for EEG and MEG users.
Program: Click here
Survey: Review the results
Slides: Download
Participants: 40

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Montreal, Canada: December 6, 2012

Purpose: Full-day hands-on training session for EEG and MEG users.
Program: Click here
Survey: Review the results
Participants: 40

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Paris, France: August 31, 2012

Context: Biomag 2012 satellite symposium
Program: Click here
Survey: Review the results
Slides: Download
Participants: 55

This full-day course featured presentations from Brainstorm users, sharing their results obtained using the software, followed by a full hands-on session.

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Montreal, Canada: July 11, 2012

Location: University of Quebec, Montreal (UQAM)
Format: Half-day MEG course, half-day Brainstorm practice
Program: Click here
Participants: 35

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)

Location: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Slides: Sylvain Baillet, Francois Tadel
Participants: 90

The Brainstorm course was immediately following the MIT's McGovern Institute Symposium: "Magnetoencephalography: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience", held on Friday, April 27, 2012.

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Location: Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal
Format: Full day of Brainstorm practice
Context: The meeting was initiated by the Canada MEG Consortium.
Participants: 75

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.