Orlando, FL: October 16-17, 2014
MEG connectivity conference and Brainstorm full-day training session.
General information
Where:
Creation Conference Center, Ground Floor Ginsburg Tower
Florida Hospital for Children
601 East Rollins Street
Orlando, FL 32803
When:
Thursday, October 16, 8am-4pm
Friday, October 17, 8am-5pm
Organizers:
Eduardo Martinez Castillo, Florida Hospital for Children ( Eduardo.MartinezCastillo@flhosp.org )
Instructors:
Francois Tadel, Elizabeth Bock (Montreal Neurological Institute / McGill University)
Target audience:
MEG/EEG community.
Professionals in clinical and translational Neurosciences interested in advanced neuroimaging.
Researchers/students interested in clinical and cognitive neurosciences.
Participation fees:
100 USD for professionals (2-day event: MEG conference/Brainstorm course)
50 USD for college students (student ID is required)
Forms of payment:
Before September 30: You can send a check payable to: Florida Hospital for Children
Send it to this address:
MEG Lab
Suite 139, North Tower
2501 North Orange Avenue
Orlando, FL 32804- Or you can pay cash or with a credit card at the venue front desk.
Maximum attendance: 80
MEG conference program (Day 1)
07:45-08:30 |
Breakfast and registration |
8:30-8:45 |
Welcome and opening remarks (Marla Siliman, Eduardo Castillo) |
8:45-9:30 |
Talk 1: MEG and multimodal imaging in epilepsy evaluation. |
9:30-10:15 |
Talk 2: MEG-guided tractography. |
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Coffee break, 15 min |
10:30-11:15 |
Talk 3: Brain networks in aging and memory decline. |
11:15-12:00 |
Talk 4: MEG studies of language function. |
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Lunch break (lunch provided by the conference organizers) |
1:30pm-2:15 |
Talk 5: Functional connectivity of the resting and active brain. |
2:15-3:00 |
Talk 6: Connecting your brain to a robotic arm: state of the art of brain-computer interfaces. |
3:00-3:45 |
Talk 7: The Brain Mapping Initiative: new techniques to understand brain networks. |
Brainstorm workshop (Day 2)
Requirements
The participants are required to bring a laptop (an external mouse will add to your comfort). 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 following instructions:
How to prepare your laptop for the training
Workshop program
Instructors: Francois Tadel, Sylvain Baillet, Elizabeth Bock (Montreal Neurological Institute / McGill)
08:00-08:30: Breakfast and laptop clinic
- Come early for assistance in installing the material for the training session
08:30-9:30: Brainstorm overview
- Software architecture
- Typical data workflow
9:30-10:15: Hands-on training
- Database explorer
- Importing MRI volumes, surfaces and atlases
- Introduction to anatomical atlases
10:15-10:30: Coffee break
10:30-12:00: Hands-on training
- Co-registration MEG/MRI
- Reviewing continuous recordings
- Artifact detection and correction
- Filtering and epoching
- Averaging, observation of a typical somatosensory evoked response
12:00-13:30: Lunch break
13:30-17:00: Hands-on training
- Head modeling and cortical source reconstruction
- Definition of ROIs, tracking the processing of the information at the cortex level
- Time-frequency analysis
- Functional connectivity
- Group analysis and statistics
- Other topics can be discussed depending on the audience specific requests