Brainstorm Training: Halifax, February 16, 2013

General information

Where: Kenneth C. Rowe Bldg., Room 100, Dalhousie University

When: Saturday, February 16, 8am-5pm

Hosted by: endMS Atlantic, RADIANT and NRC

Organizers: Timothy Bardouille, Jodi Reid, Lindsay Berrigan (Dalhousie University)

Instructors: Francois Tadel, Sylvain Baillet (MNI, McGill)

Target audience: Neuroscientists, psychologists, clinicians, engineers, etc. using MEG or EEG as advanced research tools. Students, post-docs, staff, faculty interested in learning a new academic software tool for MEG and EEG data analysis, with an emphasis on source imaging, spectral decompositions and functional connectivity metrics.

Participation fees: $40 for trainees, $80 for faculty, free for endMS and RADIANT trainees

Workshop program

Requirements

The participants are required to bring a laptop. 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 carfully the following instructions:
How to prepare your laptop for the training

08:00-08:30: Laptop clinic and breakfast

• Bring your laptop if you are not sure you were succesful in installing the material for the training session

08:30-9:15: Introduction to MEG (Sylvain Baillet)

09:15-10:00: Brainstorm overview

• Software architecture
• Typical data workflow

10:00-10:45: Hands-on training begins

• Database explorer
• Importing MRI volumes, surfaces and atlases
• Introduction to anatomical atlases

10:45-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:30: Hands-on training

• Co-registration MEG/MRI
• Reviewing continuous recordings
• Artifact detection and correction
• Filtering and epoching
• Averaging, observation of a typical somato-sensory evoked response
• Head modeling, cortical source reconstruction

12:30-13:30: Lunch break

13:30-17:00: Hands-on training resumes (coffee & refreshments served)

• Definition of ROIs, tracking the processing of the sensory information millisecond by millisecond at the cortex level
• Frequency and time-frequency analysis
• Functional connectivity
• Group analysis and statistics
• Advanced scripting interface
• Other topics can be discussed depending on the audience specific requests

Registration

Registration deadline: February 1, 2013

Download, print, fill and sign the attached registration form:
2013 Brainstorm Registration and Information.doc

Send it with payment to:
Janet Marshall, NRC, 3900-1796 Summer Street, Halifax, NS B3H 3A7
Tel: (902) 473 1850 Fax: (902) 473 1851

Contact endMS@dal.ca for further information.