TWO-WEEK MULTI-MODALITY SHORT COURSE Posted By: David Kennedy - Dec 2, 2008Tool/Resource: Conferences, Workshops and Meetings June 1-12, 2009, Applications now being accepted, Robert L. Savoy, Ph.D., Course Director. The Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, located in Charlestown Massachusetts (5 minutes from Boston) will be offering a two-week program that will address the burgeoning collection of functional and structural brain imaging methods. This program represents a substantial extension (in both time and content) of the Visiting Fellowship Program in Functional MRI that is held several times a year at the same Center (e.g., in March and October in 2008). The present program will certainly include a great deal of content on Functional MRI, but that content will be part of a more integrated approach that includes the entire arsenal of techniques currently in use in Functional Brain Imaging. The goal of this ambitious workshop is to demonstrate the ways in which a large variety of techniques are being applied to questions in human brain function. Participants will receive exposure to MRI, FMRI, DTI, DSI, MRS, PET, EEG, MEG, NIRS, DOT, TMS, and a variety of molecular and computational approaches to studying human brain function in vivo. There will also be some discussion of more invasive techniques such as implanted electrodes and direct cortical stimulation---tools that are used before and during surgery. To bring this heterogeneous collection of technologies together, a number of unifying themes (in both the lectures and the classroom/laboratory activities) will be used. Unifying themes will include mode of activation (blood-based, electrical, trauma/clinical), physiological underpinnings (from basic biophysics of the effects to molecular and energetic considerations), psychological (using all modalities on the same questions), and others. Activities will include design of a variety of experiments, exposure to a variety of software tools, tours and demonstrations of the techniques in action, and selected keynote lectures to exemplify particular experimental domains in which many of these techniques have been brought to bear on a specific problem. Applications are required and participation will be limited to approximately 24 attendees. More information will be available shortly, in the meantime, please visit the course webpage, http://www.martinos.org/martinos/trainin... or send inquiries to: fmrivfp@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu and refer to the Multi-Modality Short Course. |
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