The WISE Technologist

We are thrilled to launch a new training program, the WISE Technologist. This workshop series is designed to provide practical considerations and hands-on practice for performing quality clinical MEG. The WISE Technologist workshops will be live webinars, hosted at an expert MEG site. Each workshop will be a three-part training, including an online lecture led by Professor John Mosher, hands-on virtual guidance for data acquisition by expert technologists and MEGIN trainers, and hands-on virtual guidance for data processing and analysis by expert MEG analysts.

Access to all 5 training workshops costs $2,000USD per site. If you are interested in registering users at your site for all 5 workshops in the WISE Technologist series, please email Elizabeth Bock at elizabeth.bock@megin.fi.

You can meet us in 2021 at the following events:

27 October – 30 October, 2021

The 80th Annual Meeting of Japan Neurosurgical Society

Yokohama, Japan

14 November – 16 November, 2021

Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Neuroscience 2021

McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago USA

November 30, 2021 4:00PM GMT (9:00AM MST)
Presented by Dr. Julia Stephen

Understanding how pre- and post-natal exposures influence brain development using MEG 

This MEGIN Masterclass presented by Dr. Julia Stephen will discuss how, “the brain develops rapidly throughout gestation and childhood. However, little is known about how pre- and post-natal exposures impact brain development in children. Our work has focused on examining how rearing environment and prenatal exposures impact brain development using MEG. MEG is especially well-suited for studying children across the age range because it is silent and requires minimal participant preparation time. Rearing environment, including socioeconomic status and maternal factors, influences brain development as revealed by delayed evoked responses and altered neural oscillations. These results indicate rearing environment needs to be accounted for in future studies to better understand human brain development in health and disease.”

3 December – 7 December, 2021

AES (American Epilepsy Society) Annual Meeting

McCormick Place, Chicago USA

December 15, 2021 2:00PM GMT (3:00PM CET/9:00AM EST)
Presented by BESA GmbH

Quantum leap: How hardware and software leaders MEGIN and BESA combined their strengths to streamline MEG analysis

MEG/EEG software pioneers BESA have partnered with MEGIN to bring their advanced software tools and data analysis experience together. For the first time, MEG data acquisition and analysis workflows enable the user to lift the treasures that lie hidden in the MEG signals with ease. This masterclass episode will look beyond the surface of the new epilepsy analysis workflow and discuss some of the innovations that blend into the new user experience.

*The referred software are works in progress.

16 December – 18 December, 2021

The 51st Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology

Sendai, Japan

Past Events:

11 May – 13 May, 2021

ACMEGS Annual Conference

Virtual – 6:00pm – 9:00pm ET daily

24 May – 25 May, 2021

MEG Nord 2021

Virtual

26 May – 28 May, 2021

Royal College of Neurological Surgeons of Thailand 36 Annual Meeting

Bangkok, Thailand

10 June – 13 June, 2021

13th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress (AOEC)

Virtual

15 June – 17 June, 2021

The 36th Annual Meeting of Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society

Kyoto, Japan

21 June – 25 June, 2021

Organization For Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Annual Meeting

Virtual

10 July – 11 July, 2021

The Japan Consortium of Clinical MEG

Junwakai HP, Japan

23 September – 25 September, 2021

The 54th Annual Congress of the Japan Epilepsy Society

Nagoya, Japan

September 29, 2021 2:00PM JST (06:00AM BST)
Presented by Fernando Maestú

Functional networks impairment along the process of AD: prediction value and resilience factors

Fernando Maestú will discuss a series of studies, which mainly used MEG to record the resting-state activity and a memory task in patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD), and in healthy subjects at preclinical stage or at risk for developing dementia. All these findings together indicate that hyper synchronization of the brain networks could be an excellent non-invasive biomarker for tracking the disease and evaluate interventions.

October 21, 2021 8:00AM BST (4:00PM JST)
Presented by François Tadel

Brainstorm focusing on MEG

This Masterclass will provide an introduction to Brainstorm, an open-source application committed to the analysis of brain recordings (MEG, EEG, fNIRS, ECoG, depth electrodes and multiunit electrophysiology). Brainstorm’s objective is to share user-friendly tools with those using MEG/EEG as an experimental technique. Brainstorm is an approachable application that has an intuitive interface with no programming knowledge required. Following this introduction Masterclass, we aim to provide a deeper dive into Brainstorm’s capabilities at a later date.