Events & Courses

Magstim are pleased to open online booking 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.

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 workshop titles can be found below. Delegates also have the option of booking for the celebratory dinner at Exeter College on the evening of Saturday 12th May (also below). The guest speaker will be Dr. Evan Harris.

The Academic Organising Committee consists of Vince Walsh, Charlotte Stagg and Sven Bestmann.

Please visit http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/magstim to book your place today.

NOTE: The conference is now fully subscribed.

Programme

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, USA
"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

Dr. Jenny Crinion
University College London, UK
Stimulating speech –Combining transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with functional neuroimaging to study facilitation of picture naming

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

(CONFERENCE FULLY SUBSCRIBED - NO PLACES AVAILABLE)


Workshops

There will be four workshops run on the following themes over the course of the two days:

• Motor Threshold & Beyond
• Cognitive Tasks
• TDCS, TACS and Cortical Modulation
• Neuronavigation

There is a separate charge to attend all four workshops (we cannot take payments to attend individual sessions), and that the workshops are only available to those who have also paid to attend the main conference.

(FULLY SUBSCRIBED - NO PLACES AVAILABLE)

Celebratory Dinner

As part of this year’s Conference, there will be a candlelit 3-course dinner (with wine, plus coffee and mints) held in Exeter College Dining Hall on Saturday 12th May.

The cost to attend is £50 per place, and places are only available to those who are attending the conference. Bookings can be made online via Ticketsource at:

http://magstim.ticketsource.co.uk/

The menu will be announced shortly. The Guest Speaker will be Dr. Evan Harris.

(LIMITED PLACES STILL AVAILABLE TO REGISTERED CONFERENCE DELEGATES)

Posters

In addition to these invited talks, we strongly encourage poster submissions from students, post-doctoral and established researchers working on any aspect of human brain stimulation. Based on attendee feedback from last year, this year's event will have longer poster sessions in a larger physical space to encourage quality scientific interaction. An abstract review committee will grade submissions and assess the poster sessions. A small number of the highest rated abstracts/poster presentations will be awarded prizes.

Abstract Guidelines

Poster abstract submissions should include Title, Authors and Affiliations, Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions and References (if required). Figures and tables may be included, but their size should be compressed sufficiently to ensure that they are deliverable by email. The word limit is a maximum of 500 words (excluding authors, affiliations, figure legends and references).

Please send your abstracts by the strict deadline of Monday 16th April 2012 and indicate whether you would like to be considered for a prize oral platform presentation to: tmsschool@fmrib.ox.ac.uk

Poster Information: Please set up your poster from 8-9am on the day of your poster presentation. Maximum size is A0 in landscape orientation only.

PLEASE NOTE: The widely publicised deadline for abstract/ poster submissions has expired, and any submitted now will not be considered for the event.

Accommodation is not included in the registration price, but a wide variety of options can be found on either of the following two links:

www.oxfordrooms.co.uk

&

www.visitoxfordandoxfordshire.com

Although accommodation is plentiful in Oxford, we strongly advise that you book early, as the city is a popular destination with tourists during May. We also suggest that you also book early for the Magstim Neuroscience Conference & Workshop 2012 itself, as last year's event was oversubscribed and late applicants were turned away due to capacity restrictions.

Oxford is conveniently linked to London airports by regular bus services. London Heathrow is the closest airport (1 hour), followed by Gatwick (2 hours), Luton (3 hours) and Stansted (3.5 plus hours). Birmingham International airport is one hour away by train. For airport transfer, bus and rail information see the following links:

http://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/main.php?page_id=23

http://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/main.php?page_id=27

http://www.oxfordtube.com/

http://www.nationalexpress.com/home.aspx

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

The Summer School will take place in the University of Oxford Examination Schools, which are situated in the centre of the City on the High Street:
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/schools/

Central Oxford is small, compact and easily walkable. A local map is available here:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/visitors_friends/maps_and_directions/index.html