3rd BeNe Brain Stimulation Conference

Overview

Program

Thursday, November 7th
Time	Session
09:00-09:30	Registration
09:30-09:45	Opening
09:45-10:30	Keynote - Prof. Dr. Odile van den Heuvel Title: TBA
Coffee Break (30 mins)
11:00-12:30	Track 1 Symposium - OFC TMS Targets in Depression: Clinical Outcomes, Neural Correlates, and Target Engagement Chair: Jonathan Downar Amourie Prentice - Clinical outcomes for right orbitofrontal 1Hz TMS in nonresponders to conventional high-frequency left dorsolateral prefrontal TMS among patients with major depression Nikita van der Vinne - Comparison of clinical outcomes with sequential bilateral DLPFC-TMS versus 'hybrid' right orbitofrontal and left DLPFC-TMS treatment protocols for major depressive disorder Jonathan Downar - Resting-state fMRI predictors and correlates of treatment outcome for right lateral orbitofrontal TMS in major depression Martin Tik - Interleaved TMS-fMRI demonstrates target engagement for commonly used OFC targets Track 2 Symposium - Combining Brain Stimulation with Electroencephalography: Applications and Insights Chair: Debby Klooster Inge Leunissen - Desynchronizing brain oscillations with closed-loop tACS Miles Wischnewski - Modulation of phase-specific motor responses using real-time tACS-TMS in humans Debby Klooster - TMS propagation explained in terms of brain connectivity Emile d'Argemont - TMS-EEG in relation to cognitive performance and BOLD response in related brain areas: a pilot study
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:15	Keynote - Prof. Dr. Paul Boon Title: TBA
14:15-15:00	Track 1 Workshop - What to Do During Brain Stimulation? A Workshop on State Dependency Speakers: Iris van Oostrom and Myrthe Olde Bijnvank - van Eerdt Track 2 Free Communications - Investigating Transcranial Electrical Stimulation: Mechanisms and Effects on Brain Function Roderick Maas - MR-based electric field modeling of midline cerebellar tDCS: towards a better understanding of interindividual variability in SCA3 patients and healthy controls Helen Tobback - The effects of transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) on inhibitory control
Coffee Break (15 mins)
15:30-17:00	Track 1 Free Communications - Exploring the Efficacy of rTMS in Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders Qinyuan Chen - The impact of accelerated intermittent theta-burst stimulation (aiTBS) on brain activity upon being criticized in patients with major depressive disorder Sophie Fitzsimmons - Multilayer brain network properties of the stimulation location predict outcome of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder Urmi Pahaldsingh - Accelerated intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation in bipolar depression: a pilot study Chloé Algoet - Continuous theta burst stimulation for the treatment of epilepsia partialis continua: A case series Track 2 Symposium - Harnessing EEG and fMRI to Reveal Multifaceted Mechanisms of Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Chairs: Paula Horczak, Tasha Poppa Joshua Woller - Denoising of EEG recorded during concurrent taVNS: an evaluation of different approaches in simulated, phantom, and human data Valentina Jeličić - Effects of continuous transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on neurophysiological markers of sensory processing and attention Carlos Ventura-Bort - Effects of non-invasive transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) on emotional episodic memory: a matter of timing? Nils Kroemer - Non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation as a tool to investigate body-brain interactions in the control of motivation
17:00-19:00	Reception and Poster Presentations
Friday, November 8th
09:45-10:30	Keynote - Prof. Dr. Ana Ganho Avila Title: TBA
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Track 1 Symposium - Current Research of the Flemish-Dutch Research in Psychiatry and ECT (ResPECT) Consortium Chair: Filip Bouckaert Maarten Laroy - Molecular PET/SPECT imaging as a tool for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of electroconvulsive therapy Dore Loef - A prediction model for electroconvulsive therapy effectiveness in patients with major depressive disorder from the Dutch ECT Consortium (DEC) Nathalie Denayer - (Sub-)acute cognitive side effects in electroconvulsive therapy: A prospective cohort study Shauni Verspecht - Discrepancy between subjective memory complaints and objective memory adverse effects in electroconvulsive therapy: Systematic review Track 2 Symposium - Transcranial Brain Stimulation of the Social and Emotional Cerebellum Chair: Frank Van Overwalle Frank Van Overwalle - Cerebellar transcranial brain stimulation and dynamic sequences of social human action Ellen Heleven - The role of the cerebellum in social and non-social action sequences: A TMS and tDCS study Beatriz Catoira - Understanding others: The impact of cerebellar tDCS on the mentalizing network Chiara Ferrari - TMS reveals the time course of the cerebellum and cerebellum-social brain causal connectivity during emotion discrimination
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:15	Track 1 Free Communications - Electrical and Magnetic Stimulation: Effects on Cognitive Impairment and Depression Zhenyu Zhang - The effect of theta frequency and theta frequency-personalized tACS on glutamate and glutamine in participants with amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment Iris Dalhuisen - Maintenance rTMS for depression: An overview of the literature (Collaborative work from the Dutch-Flemish Brain Stimulation Foundation) Track 2 Free Communications - Neural Stimulation: Insights on Brain Function from Animal and Human Models Liyi Chen - The effect of external trigeminal nerve stimulation on the hippocampus: Insights from rat and human studies Laura Luyten - Deep brain stimulation in anxious rats and patients
Coffee Break
14:45-15:30	Keynote - Prof. Dr. Sven Vanneste Title: TBA
15:30-16:00	Poster Awards and Closing

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