8th International Conference on
Functional Mapping of the Human Brain
June 2 - 6,2002, Sendai, JAPAN

OHBM Education Program
FMRI Course, Sunday, June 2, 2002

9:00-19:00, Shirakashi Room 3rd floor, Sendai International Center

Course organiser: Ed Bullmore, Program Committee (Education)



INTRODUCTION

09:00-09:10 Introduction to the meeting
Ryuta Kawashima ryuta@idac.tohoku.ac.jp
Ed Bullmore etb23@cam.ac.uk

09:10-09:30 Motivation: what can fMRI tell us about the brain?
Marsel Mesulam mmesulam@nwu.edu


(BIO)PHYSICS of fMRI
Chair: Doug Noll dnoll@umich.edu

09:30-11:00 Physics of BOLD and beyond
Steve Williams - Basic principles of EPI
s.williams@iop.kcl.ac.uk
Lawrence Wald - Management of susceptibility and other artefacts at 3T+
wald@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Peter Bandettini - Future trends
bandettini@nih.gov

11:00-11:30 BREAK

11:30-12:30 BOLD signal - mechanisms and models
John George - Neuronal activation dynamics - insights from M/EEG
jsg@lanl.gov
Richard Buxton - Physiological mechanisms of neurovascular coupling
rbuxton@ucsd.edu
Karl Friston - Statistical models for the BOLD signal
karl@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk

12:30-13:00 Panel discussion

13:00-14:00 LUNCH


DATA ANALYSIS
Chair: Keith Worsley keith.worsley@mcgill.ca


14:00-15:30 Issues in statistical analysis
Stephan Smith - Estimating signal and noise in time and other domains
steve@fmrib.ox.ac.uk
Jean-Baptiste Poline - Spatially/anatomically informed test statistics
poline@shfj.cea.fr
Thomas Nichols - Frequentist hypothesis testing with and without Normal theory
nichols@umich.edu
Gabriele Lohmann - Bayesian approaches
lohmann@cns.mpg.de
Stephan Strother - Living with plurality
steve@pet.med.va.gov

15:30-16:00 Panel discussion

16:00-16:30 BREAK


EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
Chair: Aina Puce apuce@bsi.swin.edu.au


16:30-18:30 Experimental design issues in relation to...
Jonathan Cohen - Cognitive load-response
jdc@princeton.edu
Helen Mayberg - Mapping emotion
hmayberg@rotman-baycrest.on.ca
Christian Buechel - Learning
buechel@uke.uni-hamburg.de
Maura Furey - Psychopharmacology
furey@nih.gov
Adrian Owen - Clinical studies
adrian.owen@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

18:30-19:00 Panel discussion


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