CRCHUM, Montréal CANADA: December 14-15, 2026
Two-day Brainstorm training, EEG- and iEEG-oriented.
During the first day, participants will process an epilepsy EEG dataset to learn and explore Brainstorm features. On the second day, participants will work with an epilepsy iEEG dataset. In addition, for the second data, participants are encouraged to bring their own data, which we will review in small groups.
General information
| Where | Centre de recherche du CHUM |
| When | December 14-15, 2026, 9:00-16:00 |
| Registration | Registration form |
| Organizers | Sylvain Baillet (Université de Montréal) |
| Instructors | Sylvain Baillet (Université de Montréal), Raymundo Cassani (CRCHUM) |
| Audience | Users interested in analyzing EEG and iEEG recordings using Brainstorm. Some experience with EEG is recommended. Teaching in English. Number of participants: 40 |
| Slides | Intro slides | Lecture slides | Walkthrough | Survey |
Requirements
In order to make the workshop as efficient as possible, we ask all the attendees to: download, install and test the software and download the workshop dataset on their laptops prior to the workshop.
Installing Brainstorm
Please read carefully the following instructions on:
preparing your laptop for the training
Workshop datasets
To be defined
To be defined
Program
To be defined
Bring your own data
The second day will have a period dedicated to addressing participants' requests. We encourage you to bring in your own sample of MEG, EEG or iEEG data that you would be interested in processing with Brainstorm. We may ask that you pair with other attendees for logistics purposes.
The file formats that can be read by Brainstorm are listed on the Introduction page. Please contact us in advance if you are not sure your dataset can be imported in Brainstorm. If you do not have data available, you may to use data available in our server for other tutorials.
We provide a detailed step-by-step walkthrough of the data analyses performed at the training.
Troubleshooting
For any technical problem, please contact Raymundo Cassani
( raymundo.cassani.chum@ssss.gouv.qc.ca )
Registration form
Please register in the form below.
To prep for the hands-on workshop you will be receiving an email with specific instructions about a week before the event.
The workshop dataset is based on the Frontiers Research Topic From raw MEG/EEG to publication: a collection of articles reporting the analysis of the same multimodal dataset using different software environments. During this workshop, first we will go through the main processing steps using data from one of the participants following the processing pipeline described in the article MEG/EEG Group Analysis With Brainstorm and the corresponding online tutorial. In a second part, we will use pre-processed data from two participants to show the steps for group analysis.
Once you have successfully installed and tested Brainstorm (see previous section), proceed to download the dataset for the workshop.
Download the tutorial dataset: ds000117_S1R1.zip (820 MB):
Download link
Unzip the downloaded file on your desktop: it will create a new folder named ds000117_S1R1. It contains raw data for one participant, one run.
Download the tutorial dataset: BoysTown_S1S2_R1R2.zip (950 MB):
Download link
Unzip the downloaded file on your desktop: it will create a new folder named BoysTown_S1S2_R1R2. It contains pre-processed data for two participants, two runs each.
brainstorm3: the software folder, containing the source code and the compiled executable
brainstorm_db: your Brainstorm database (which should be empty for now)
ds000117_S1R1: Dataset 1 used during the workshop session
BoysTown_S1S2_R1R2: Dataset 2 used during the workshop session