Magstim are pleased to announce the initial programme for next year's 'Summer School' - the Magstim Neuroscience Conference & Workshop 2012, which will be held in the Examination Schools in Oxford in the UK on 12th & 13th May 2012.
Please visit http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/magstim to book your place today and to find out more about our 'early bird' offers.
Key Note Speaker
Mark S. George, MD
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Radiology and Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina
Daily Prefrontal TMS for Treating Depression: Are we really modifying cortico-limbic governance and connectivity when we get people undepressed?
Session 1: Cognition
Prof. Michal Lavidor
Department of Psychology and the Gonda Brain Research Centre, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Modulating Oscillatory Brain Activity Correlates of Behavioral Inhibition
Dr. Paul Sauseng
Department of Psychology, University of Surrey, UK
The swinging brain: Using neurostimulation for changing memory and attention related brain oscillations
Dr. David Pitcher
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute for Mental Health, U.S.A
"Who's that?" - Combining TMS with neuroimaging to study disruption in the cortical face perception network
Prof. Adam Aron
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, USA
Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to test the mechanisms underlying cognitive control
Session 2: Connectivity
Prof. Robert Chen
Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Interactions between different cortical circuits in the motor cortex
Prof. Matthew Rushworth
Department of Experimental Psychology and Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford
Measuring and inducing functional connectivity between brain areas with TMS
Dr. Joseph Galea
University College London, UK
Understanding the role of the cerebellum in motor adaptation with brain stimulation
Jenny Crinion
University College London, UK
Talk title to be confirmed
Session 3: Plasticity and Change
Prof. Yoshikazu Ugawa
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine Fukushima Medical University
How to induce neuronal plasticity by rTMS in humans
Dr. Antonio Oliviero
FENNSI Group, Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, SESCAM, Spain
Effects of static magnetic field stimulation of the motor cortex
Dr. Gabrielle Todd
University of South Australia
Factors to consider for optimising rTMS-induced plasticity
Session 4: Clinical Applications
Dr. Mark Edwards
University College London, UK
TMS in diagnosis and treatment of movement disorders
Yuping Wang
Department of Neurology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) therapy for patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
Dr. Ysbrand Van Der Werf
Department of Anatomy & Neurosciences, VU University medical center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
TMS as a tool to modulate cognition and emotion
Dr. Shirley Fecteau
Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Modulation of decision making processes with noninvasive stimulation over the prefrontal cortex
Based on feedback from previous events, we are rebranding and reformatting the TMS Summer School to be wider in its remit to encompass more than just TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) as well as now offering hands-on workshops with a variety of Neuromodulation research equipment that is used in the majority of neuroscience research.
The final format of the workshops within the next couple of weeks. Delegates also have the option of booking for the celebratory dinner at Exeter College on the evening of Saturday 12th May. We will be announcing the guest speaker at the dinner shortly.
