[BIC-announce] Special Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture @ The BIC (Tue-Feb-25, 1:00 pm, de Grandpré Communications Centre; "Driving Neurons with Microscopic Magnetic Stimulation Coils" -- Dr. Giorgio Bonmassar)

Thu Feb 20 05:14:44 EST 2014

 *The Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture Series @ The BIC*

The The Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture
Series<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Seminars/BICLectureSeries>
features
informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the
Neuro<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/>
's McConnell Brain Imaging Centre<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Main/HomePage>
 (*BIC*) by experts in the field.

These lectures are named in honour of Dr. William
Feindel<http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2014/01/dr-william-feindel-1918-2014/>
 (1918-2014), former Director of the Neuro (1972 -1984) and Founding
Director of the BIC (1984-88).  Dr.
Feindel<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/neurosurgeon-william-feindel-was-an-explorer-of-the-mind/article16764683/>'s
presence and contribution will be greatly missed at our weekly Brain
Imaging Lectures <http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Seminars/BICLectureSeries>,
where he almost always asked the final, most-germane question of the day:
one that usually bridged the clinical and research realms, and that brought
together the past, the present, and the future of brain science.

This semester, our Lecture Series is being held in conjunction with the
BIC's new Open Methods Meetups
(*OMM*)<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Seminars/OpenMethodsMeetups>: a
forum for discussing hands-on technical issues, brainstorming
problem-solving for specific projects, and sharing personal
tricks-of-the-trade. This will be a great venue for those associated with
the BIC to transfer knowledge and to get to know one another.

Please join us for a special Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture, which will be
held in The Neuro's de Grandpré Communications
Centre<http://neuromedia.mcgill.ca/mnibooking/facdirections/dgccdir.htm>
 (3801
University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4) on *Tuesday, February the 25th,
starting at 1:00 pm**.  *

*At that time, **Dr. Giorgio Bonmassar
<http://www.martinos.org/user/5622> will be describing some of his recent
work <http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n6/full/ncomms1914.html>
describing a new way to examine neural circuitry by driving neurons with
microscopic magnetic stimulation coils (see abstract below)**.*

Cheers!
Aki

PS - Please let me know if you are interested in presenting a future
Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture @ The BIC or leading a future OMM (see
further below for currently available slots).

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"*Driving Neurons with microscopic **magnetic stimulation coils: a new way
to tap into the intricate neural circuitry"*

* -- Giorgio Bonmassar, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical
School, Assistant in Neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital*

Electrical Stimulation (ES) in the brain has proven therapeutically
beneficial for patients suffering from neurological disorders including
Parkinsons disease, dystonia, essential tremor, and major depression.
Moreover, ES stimulation tools have also proven invaluable for
investigating the function of the nervous system. Despite its success,
there are significant limitations impeding the ES to reach full clinical
potential including: incompatibility with magnetic resonance imaging,
limited control of electric fields and decreased performance associated
with tissue inflammation. Magnetic stimulation overcomes these limitations
but existing devices (i.e., transcranial magnetic stimulation) are large,
reducing their translation to chronic applications. Recently, a novel
technology, micro-magnetic stimulation (µMS), has proven effective at
activating the local neural circuitry in vivo.  Specifically, the
application of micro-magnetic fields in the vicinity of the dorsal cochlear
nucleus (DCN) trans-synaptically activates inferior colliculus (IC) neurons
in the rat. Moreover, our group demonstrated that the orientation of the
applied µMS fields (relative to the excitable tissue) provides unique
activation of neuronal elements not seen with traditional electrical
stimulation, a property that possibly can be leveraged to improve
experimental or therapeutic goals. The results that will be presented may
be of interest for those ready to explore µMS as a prospective tool for
clinical and basic neuroscience research applications
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*The Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture Series @ The BIC*

*-  Winter/Spring-2014 Program*

*Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpré
Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information please visit our
website <http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Seminars/BICLectureSeries>.*

 ---) Jan-06:  *No Lecture*
01) Jan-13:  *OMM: Overview of fMRI Analysis Software* -- Mr. Benjamin
Elegy, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira
02) Jan-20:  *Structural MRI Analysis in the Study of Cognition,
Large-Scale Networks, and Brain Pathology*  -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt
03) Jan-27:  *MRI Quantification of Local Tissue Volume and Composition in
Individual Brains *-- Dr. Nikola Stikov

04) Feb-03:  *Physiological Noise Correction in Resting State fMRI* - Dr.
Naj Mahani
05) Feb-10:  *Functional Imaging of the Sleeping and Sleep-Disordered
Brain* -- Dr.
Thien Thanh Dang-Vu
06) Feb-17:  *OMM: Diffusion Analysis with MINC Tools* -- Ms. Ilana Leppert
07) Feb-24:  *OMM: MRI Registration* -- Dr. Hassan Rivaz
08) Tue-Feb-25:  *Driving Neurons with Microscopic Magnetic Stimulation
Coils *-- Dr. Giorgio Bonmassar

09) Mar-03:  *OMM: Matlab vs. Python for Brain Imaging Experiments* -- TBA
10) Mar-10:  *OMM: **An Introduction to Automatic Tissue-Classification of
Brain MRI*  -- Mr. Colm Elliott
11) Mar-17:  *OMM-1: CIVET 2.0, An Automated Pipeline For Structural Human
MRI* -- Dr. Lindsay Lewis
       Mar-17:  *OMM-2: SurfStat: Surface-Based Statistics in Matlab* -- Dr.
Boris Bernhardt
 12) Mar-24:  *OMM: Why Use PET? Research in Neurological and Psychiatric
Disorders* -- Mr. Paul Gravel
13) Mar-31:  *OMM: Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI using Python* -- Mr.
Mike E. Klein

14) Apr-07:  *Neurovascular Coupling in the Human Brain* -- Dr. Kevin
Whittingstall
15) Apr-14:  *Analysis of Early Infant Brain Growth from Longitudinal DTI* --
Dr. Guido Gerig
16) Tue-Apr-22:  *To Be Announced* -- TBA
---) Apr-28:  *No Lecture** -- Neuropsychology Day*

17) May-05:  *OMM: MEG/EEG Analysis* -- Mr. François Tadel
---) May-12:  *No Lecture** -- ISMRM in Milan*
18) Tue-May-20:  *OHBM Data Blitz* -- TBA
19) May-26:  *OMM: MEM Brainstorm Plug-In for EEG/MEG Source
Localization*-- Dr. Jean Marc Lina and Dr. Christophe Grova

20) Jun-02:  *To Be Announced* -- TBA
21) Jun-09:  *To Be Announced* -- TBA
22) Jun-16:  *To Be Announced* -- TBA
23) Jun-23:  *To Be Announced* -- TBA
24) Jun-30:  *To Be Announced* -- Dr. Radoslaw Cichy

-- 
Zografos Caramanos, M.A.

Research Assistant, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit
Ph.D. Student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre,
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4
(phone) 514-299-8160;  (fax) 514-398-2975
(e-mail) zografos.caramanos at mcgill.ca
(web)  Google-scholar<http://scholar.google.ca/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=BcVBulQAAAAJ&view_op=list_works>
   www.zcaramanos.com
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