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Overview

BrainSTIM 2023 will be held Friday-Saturday, June 2–3, 2023 at Aalto University in Espoo Finland, 20 minutes drive from Helsinki airport. Like its predecessors, BrainSTIM 2023 will focus on the combination of brain imaging and brain stimulation. The meeting will have keynote lectures by leaders in the fields of both imaging and stimulation, oral sessions selected from submitted abstracts, poster sessions and other opportunities to network. The meeting is designed to inform and educate all who are interested in these topics, from novices to experts. Topics include the latest methods and applications of all forms of neuromodulation and neuroimaging. Specific examples include the benefits that can arise when stimulation and imaging are combined. These include such topics as using neuromodulation to test theories of brain organization originally derived from behavioral and neuroimaging data, using neuroimaging to assess the brain effects of neuromodulation and to develop more effective neuromodulation protocols, predicting and improving the efficacy of stimulation protocols in individuals using biomarkers derived from neuroimaging and other sources, developing more effective closed-loop stimulation protocols based on real-time changes in brain function derived from neuroimaging, and many others.

Program

Friday June 2

8 - 8:45 AM: Registration, coffee & poster set-up

8:45- 9 AM: Opening: Vincent Clark

9 - 10:15 AM: Keynote 1: Risto Ilmoniemi & Ulf Ziemann
Connecting to human brain networks with radically novel TMS technology Chair: Vincent Clark

10:15-11:15: Oral session 1: TMS–EEG (4 x 10 min), chair Timo Roine
1. Ilenia Paparella: GABA concentration relates to physiological measures of synaptic activity in the human motor cortex 2. Gabriel Hassan: TMS-EEG unveils reactivity changes in the occipital cortex of blind individuals
3. Mohammad Daneshzand: Combining a modular multichannel 3-axis TMS coil array with concurrent EEG acquisition
4. Joonas Laurinoja: Feasibility of EEG phase estimation towards closed-loop TMS–EEG inside MRI

11:15-11:45: Coffee break

11:45-12:30: Keynote 2: Juho Joutsa
From brain lesions to brain stimulation targets Chair: Satu Jääskeläinen

12:30-14:00: Lunch + Posters + Exhibition

2-2:45: Oral session 2 (6 x 4 min), chair Hanna Renvall
1. Orsolya Karácsony: The effect of visual stimuli with an information content on epileptic severity
2. Daniela Rodriguez Manrique: Electrode localisation for electrical field (EF) modelling in tDCS studies using magnetic resonance
3. Jordan Van Zyl: tDCS for Cognitive Enhancement in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial with Neuroimaging 4. Fernando Galaz Prieto: Metaheuristic L1–L1 method in optimizing focal multi-channel tES montages
5. Rajat Joshi: Behavioural validation of individualised low-intensity transcranial electrical stimulation protocols
6. Elena Bondi: The awe experience: a VR-TMS-EEG study

2:45-3 PM: Science Factory greetings

3-3:30 PM: Coffee break

3:30 - 5:30 PM: Keynote 3: Christoph Herrmann
First simulate then stimulate: Using brain imaging to improve brain stimulation Chair: Risto Ilmoniemi
Reliability of TMS–EEG , panel discussion with Marta Bortoletto
Ulf Ziemann
Hartwig Siebner
Mario Rosanova
Chair: Tuomas Mutanen

6 PM: Departure for cruise to dinner Cruise + dinner

6 - 11 PM: Cruise + dinner

Saturday June 3

8:30-9:00 AM: Registration, coffee

9:00-9:45 AM: Keynote 4: Charlotte Stagg

9:45-10:00 AM: Combining multimodal imaging and non-invasive brain stimulation to study human motor control Chair: Til Ole Bergmann

11:15-11:45 AM: Break

10:00-11:15 AM:Oral session 3 (5 x 10 min), chair Christoph Herrmann
1. David Haslacher: Enhancement and suppression of brain oscillations using closed-loop tACS
2. Sampsa Pursiainen: Metaheuristic L1 fitted and regularized (L1-L1) optimization in multi-channel DBS
3. Adrianna Giuffre: TMS biomarkers predict postsurgical seizure outcomes in patients with refractory focal epilepsy
4. Stephanie Lefebvre: Linking altered cortical excitability to neural substrates of the motor network in schizophrenia
5. Shokoofeh Parvin: Effect of stimulus orientation and paired-pulse protocol on the spatial activation of forearm muscle

11:15-11:45 AM: Coffee break

11:45-12:30 PM: Keynote 5: Hanna Renvall
Magnetoencephalography - from university to clinic and back Chair: Paolo Belardinelli

12:30-2 PM: Lunch + Posters + Exhibition

(mTMS workshop for those who have signed up in advance)

2-2:45 PM: Oral session 4: TMS–EEG (5 x 4 min), chair Tuomas Mutanen
1. Danylo Lucio Ferreira Cabral: Neurophysiological correlates of lifestyle diabetes care: A theoretical framework
2. Dominika Sulcova: TMS-evoked potentials as biomarkers of cortical excitability: combining microstate and peak analysis
3. Davide Bonfanti: Parietal phosphenes reveal asymmetric spatiotemporal dynamics between left and right IPS
4. Melina Engelhardt: Repetitive TMS to facilitate recovery of motor deficits after supratentorial tumor resection
5. Valentina Pezzopane: Default Mode Network connectivity abnormalities in Alzheimer disease: a multi-level approach study

2:45-3 PM: Break

3-4 PM: Oral session 5: TMS–EEG (4 x 10 min), chair Pantelis Lioumis
1. Joëlle Schroën: From Temporal to Frontal Cortex and Back: Testing the Dynamics of Speech Comprehension with TMS-EEG 2. Giacomo Guidali: Unveiling the neurophysiological substrates of a visuo-motor PAS protocol: a TMS-EEG study
3. Xavier Corominas: Exploring the potential impact of very low-intensity TMS on humans: a TMS-EEG study
4. Mikkel Beck: The impact of methodological choices: a systematic review of TMS-EEG studies targeting the M1

4-4:30 PM: Coffee break

4:30 - 5:15 PM: Oral session 6: TMS and EEG (6 x 4 min), chair Matti Stenroos
1. Joonas Lahtinen: Adaptive Method for Non-Invasive EEG/MEG Source Localization to Support Focal Epileptic Treatments 2. Johannes Vorwerk: Sensitivity of EEG forward and inverse solutions to conductivity uncertainties
3. Thais Marchetti: Decision-making in transcranial magnetic stimulation robotized positioning
4. Harri Piitulainen: Change in TMS stimulus orientation alters spatial activation of the forearm muscles
5. Fang Jin: Assessing the overlap of cortical representations for hand and forearm muscles using navigated TMS
6. Tuomas Mutanen: Suppressing TMS-evoked EEG Artifacts: A Simulation Study Comparing ICA and SSP

5:15-6:15 PM: Break

5:30-6:30 PM: Keynote 6: Vincent Clark
Fifteen years of BrainSTIM in my laboratory: What have we learned, and what's next? Chair: Risto Ilmoniemi

6:15 - 6:30: Closing: Vincent Clark

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