Pittsburgh, USA: March 24-25
Brainstorm two-day training session, oriented on clinical EEG.
General information
| Day 1 | Thursday, March 24: 8:30am-5:30pm Biomedical Science Tower - Room D120 BST South |
| Day 2 | Friday, March 25: 8:30am-4:00pm Scaife Conference Center - Room 1105AB |
| Organizers | Jonathan Elmer, Beth Wesoloski (University of Pittsburgh) |
| Instructors | Francois Tadel, Sylvain Baillet (Montreal Neurological Institute / McGill) |
| Audience | Users interested in analyzing EEG/MEG/intracranial recordings using Brainstorm. Some experience in processing EEG recordings is recommended. Number of participants: 30 |
| Fees | Free |
| Slides | Introduction |
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
Program: Day 1
| 8:30-9:00 | Onsite assistance in installing the material for the training session |
| 9:00-10:00 | Lecture: Brainstorm overview (Tadel) Software structure, typical data workflow |
| 10:00-10:45 | Practice Database explorer MRI volumes, surfaces and anatomical atlases |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Practice Registration EEG/MRI Review of continuous EEG recordings Montage editor and management of event markers Frequency filters |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-15:30 | Practice Bad channels management Artifact detection Artifact correction with SSP and ICA Averaging, exploring the evoked response |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00-16:30 | Lecture: Source modeling (Baillet) |
| 16:30-17:30 | Practice Head modeling, cortical source reconstruction Regions of interest (ROIs) |
Program: Day 2
| 8:30-9:00 | Lecture: Time-frequency (Baillet) |
| 9:00-9:45 | Practice Time-frequency decomposition of continuous recordings |
| 9:45-10:15 | Lecture: Connectivity & resting-state (Baillet) |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-12:30 | Practice Connectivity Statistics Scripting |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-16:00 | Analyze your own data Participants work in small groups (2-4 people) to analyze their own recordings |
Registration
Registration will be limited to students and faculty from the University of Pittsburgh and their collaborators. For any questions, please contact Beth Wesoloski: wesoloskiba@upmc.edu