Seattle: June 21, 2013

HBM 2013 satellite meeting, full-day Brainstorm workshop. Conference link

General information

Where: Magnuson Health Sciences Center T (HST), Room T-739
University of Washington, Seattle: map of the campus.

When: Friday, June 21, 8am-6pm

Organizers: Rey Ramirez (UW), Sylvain Baillet (MNI, McGill)

Instructors: Francois Tadel (MNI, McGill), John Mosher (Cleveland Clinic)

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.

Workshop program

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 carfully the following instructions:
How to prepare your laptop for the training

08:00-09:00: Breakfast and laptop clinic

• Come early you are not sure you were succesful in installing the material for the training session

09:00-10:00: 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

11:00-12:40: 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

12:40-13:30: Lunch break (lunch not provided by the organizers, cafeteria nearby)

13:30-15:30: Hands-on training resumes

• 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

15:30-16:00: Coffee break

16:00-16:45: EEG and epilepsy (Lecture)

• John Mosher will share his experience at the Cleveland Clinic's Epilepsy center and illustrate the use of Brainstorm in a clinical environment.
• How to process epilepsy recordings in Brainstorm: MEG, EEG, and intra-cranial recordings.

16:45-18:00: Open discussion

• Other topics can be discussed depending on the audience specific requests