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