| Weekend Educational Course:
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| Brain Connectivity
Assessment with MRI |
| Organizer: Peter A.
Bandettini, Ph.D. |
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| Skill Level:
Intermediate - Advanced |
| Saturday, 1 May
2010 |
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OVERVIEW |
This one day course will provide an
overview of the concept of functional connectivity and how it is
defined, measured, and used for the advancement of neuroscience and
in clinical applications. The main areas to be covered are:
- Connectivity assessment of
spontaneous oscillations in fMRI
- Connectivity assessment with
diffusion imaging
- Bringing the modalities
together: applications
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We will begin with overview talks on how
connectivity is defined, why it is important, and how it is
measured. Then specifics of connectivity assessment will be
discussed and the use of spontaneous oscillations in fMRI and
diffusion imaging for the assessment of connectivity presented. We
will cover potential pitfalls in interpretation, artifacts in the
latest techniques, as well as some of the possibilities and current
applications. Lastly, methods that attempt to bring multiple
modalities and animal models together to assess and understand
functional connectivity will be described. |
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EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES |
Upon completion of this course
participants should be able to:
- Define functional connectivity
and describe how it is relevant to clinical applications;
- List the major MRI and non-MRI
techniques to measure functional connectivity;
- Describe the latest technical
advances in functional connectivity assessment and discuss the
current limitations in the technique;
- Describe the current status of
methods to quantify connectivity and perfusion-related
parameters in the healthy brain, and compare the methodology to
those needed for robust quantification in the diseased brain;
- Describe some of the
shortcomings and unique advantages of functional connectivity
assessment for those with pathology; and
- Describe how DTI and fMRI can be
used in conjunction to assess connectivity.
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Overview |
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| 08:30 |
Why is Connectivity
Assessment Important to Neuroscience &
to Understanding
Disease? |
Klaas Enno
Stephan, M.D. |
| 09:00 |
Large/Small World
Connectivity & Predicting Spontaneous Oscillation Networks
from Diffusion Data |
Patric Hagmann,
M.D., Ph.D. |
| 09:30 |
Break |
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09:30 - 09:45 Meet the Teachers
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Connectivity
Assessment with Spontaneous Oscillations in fMRI |
| 10:00 |
Methods for Assessment of
Functional Connectivity |
Baxter P.
Rogers, Ph.D. |
| 10:30 |
Spontaneous Oscillations in
fMRI: History & Perspective |
Mark J. Lowe,
Ph.D. |
| 11:00 |
Methods for Processing
Spontaneous Oscillations in fMRI |
Stephen M.
Smith, D.Phil. |
| 11:30 |
Artifacts & Artifact
Removal in Spontaneous Oscillation Connectivity Assessment |
Rasmus M. Birn,
Ph.D. |
| 12:00 |
Connectivity Measured with
EEG & fMRI |
Silvina G.
Horovitz, Ph.D. |
| 12:30 |
Break |
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12:30 - 12:45 - Meet the
Teachers |
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Connectivity Assessment
with Diffusion Imaging |
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| 14:00 |
Diffusion Imaging &
Connectivity |
Peter J. Basser,
Ph.D. |
| 14:30 |
Anatomical Connectivity
Assessment |
Heidi
Johansen-Berg, D.Phil., M.Sc. |
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15:00 |
Break |
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15:00 - 15:15 Meet the Teachers
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Bringing the Modalities
Together: Applications |
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| 15:30 |
Multimodal Fusion of EEG & fMRI
for Connectivity |
Anthony
McIntosh, Ph.D. |
| 16:00 |
Dynamics at Rest: Information Content in Resting fMRI
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John Suckling, Ph.D. |
| 16:30 |
Spontaneous Oscillations
Assessed in Children & with Anesthetic |
Vesa J.
Kiviniemi, M.D. |
| 17:00 |
Connectivity Measured in
Animal Models |
David A.
Leopold, Ph.D. |
| 17:30 |
Adjournment |
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17:30 - 17:45 Meet the
Teachers |
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