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.

Matlab webinar: March 27, 2015

• Webinar page: Click here

Marseille, France: May 26-27, 2015

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

Seattle, USA: September 30, 2015

• Purpose: Full-day training session, EEG-oriented (SPR annual meeting 2015).
  Registration: Click here

Los Angeles, USA: October 26-27, 2015

• Purpose: Brainstorm-BrainSuite two-day training session.
  Registration: Click here

Past Brainstorm courses

Total number of participants: 870

Montreal, Canada: March 16-20, 2015

• Purpose: Full week MEG training.
  Survey: Review the results
  Program: ?Click here
  Participants: 12
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

Oldenburg, Germany: December 18-19, 2014

• Purpose: Two-day training session: MEG and EEG.
  Survey: Review the results
  Program: Click here
  Participants: 30
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

Freiburg, Germany: December 16, 2014

• Purpose: Full-day training session: EEG, ECOG and epilepsy.
  Survey: Review the results
  Program: Click here
  Participants: 45
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

Orlando, USA: October 16-17, 2014

• Purpose: MEG connectivity conference and Brainstorm full-day training session.
  Survey: Review the results
  Program: Click here
  Participants: 35
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

Miami, USA: October 13-14, 2014

• Purpose: Two-day training session, EEG-oriented.
  Program: Click here
  Participants: 25
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

Murcia, Spain: September 30, 2014

• Purpose: Full-day training session, EEG-oriented.
  Program: Click here
  Participants: 20
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

Biomag/Halifax, Canada: August 29, 2014

• Purpose: Biomag 2014 satellite meeting. Full-day hands-on training session.
  Program and slides: Click here
  Survey: Review the results
  Participants: 20
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

Tehran, Iran: June 18, 2014

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

Osaka, Japan: May 31, 2014

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

Taipei, Taiwan: May 26, 2014

• Program: Click here
  Survey: Review the results
  Participants: 65
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

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
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

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
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

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
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

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
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

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
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

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.
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

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)

Boston, USA: April 28, 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.
  
  
  Click here for more pictures of the event

Montreal, Canada: November 19, 2011

• 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.

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.