Aix-en-Provence France: December 14-16, 2022

Practical workshop on EEG/MEG analysis in Aix-en-Provence, in parallel with FieldTrip and MNE-Python. Program available on the workshop website: http://practicalmeeg2022.org/

The hands-on part of this workshop is based on the Frontiers Research Topic From raw MEG/EEG to publication: a collection of articles processing the same multimodal dataset using different software environments. We will process together one subject of this dataset, following the processing pipeline described in the article MEG/EEG Group Analysis With Brainstorm and the corresponding online tutorial.

General information

Requirements

The participants are required to bring a laptop and an external mouse. In order to make the session as efficient as possible, we ask all the attendees to download, install and test the software and sample dataset on their laptops prior to the workshop.

Please read carefully the installation instructions:
How to prepare your laptop for the training

Installation instructions

Before coming to the workshop, you need to download the software and the tutorial dataset (1.1 Gb). To streamline troubleshooting during the session, please save all the downloaded files on your Desktop.

1. From the Brainstorm Download page, log in or create a Brainstorm account

2. Download brainstorm_YYMMDD.zip (88 Mb)

3. If you already have Brainstorm: update it. We need a version released after December 8th

4. Download the tutorial dataset (1.1 Gb):
   https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7189460

5. Unzip the two downloaded files on your desktop
6. Delete the two downloaded zip files

7. Create a folder "brainstorm_db" on your Desktop

8. Final check: you should have 3 folders on your desktop:

   • brainstorm3: Program folder, with the source code and the compiled executable

   • brainstorm_db: Brainstorm database (empty)

   • ds000117-pruned: Example dataset used during the training session

9. Start Brainstorm (see following section)

10. Select the menu Help > Workshop preparation.

11. Follow the instructions: when you see the 3D figure, make sure you see both a transparent head surface and a brain surface. Try to rotate the view with your mouse, and zoom in and out with the mouse wheel.
    
    

12. If you want to call FieldTrip functions from Brainstorm (multitaper, cluster-based statistics and dipole fitting), download and install FieldTrip on your computer:
    http://www.fieldtriptoolbox.org/download/

Running Brainstorm for the first time

First download the free trial version of Matlab 2021a (valid until January 17th) provided by the PracticalMEEG organizers.

1. Start Matlab

2. Do NOT add brainstorm3 folder to your Matlab path: this will be done automatically

3. Go to the brainstorm3 folder
4. Type "brainstorm" in the command window
5. When asked for the Brainstorm database folder, pick the "brainstorm_db" you have just created