Events
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 2022 at the following events:
19-23 June, 2022
OHBM (Organization for Human Brain Mapping) Annual Meeting
Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, Scotland
27-30 August, 2022
ASFNR (American Society of Functional Neuroradiology) Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency Maui, Hawaii, USA
28 August- 1 September, 2022
BIOMag 2022
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
September 30, 2022 4:00PM BST (09:00AM CDT)
Presented by Dr. Roozbeh Rezaie
Guidelines and practical considerations for language mapping in clinical cohorts using magnetoencephalography (MEG)
This Masterclass presented by Dr. Roozbeh Rezaie will discuss “how since it’s adoption in clinical practice, much progress has been made in developing and optimizing MEG as a non-invasive tool for localizing language-specific cortex and determining hemispheric dominance for language, particularly in the context of surgical management of epilepsy and brain tumors. Here, Dr. Roozbeh Rezaie will review the utility of MEG as an alternative to traditional invasive diagnostic methods often considered as the “gold standard” techniques for identifying language-specific and determining laterality. Subsequently, we will discuss the application of appropriate MEG language-mapping protocols developed to reliably generate spatiotemporal profiles of language activity. In particular, emphasis will be placed on best-practices for executing validated MEG language-mapping paradigms in adult and pediatric populations, in a variety of scenarios. Furthermore, the practical aspects of analyzing MEG language mapping data will be discussed in detail, using clinical case studies, to illustrate the manner in which brain regions supporting linguistic functions are localized and judgements regarding hemispheric dominance are made. The overall objective of this didactic session will be to familiarize interested practitioners with the advantages (and limitations) of MEG as a functional neuroimaging technique for mapping language and, more importantly, serve as a guide for successfully acquiring and interpreting MEG language mapping data, in a clinical context.”
2-6 December, 2022
AES (American Epilepsy Society) Annual Meeting
Music City Center, Nashville, TN
Exhibition Booth #1517
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 14:00 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 Brainstorm
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.
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, 2021
Advances in Pediatric Neuroscience
Boys Town National Research Hospital
Patrick E. Brookhouser, M.D. Memorial Lecture
2021 Virtual Conference
3 December – 7 December, 2021
AES (American Epilepsy Society) Annual Meeting
McCormick Place, Chicago USA
December 14, 2021 3:00PM GMT (9:00AM CST)
Presented by Elizabeth Davenport and Sasha Alick Lindstrom
MEG utilization in epilepsy
This Masterclass will be presented by Elizabeth Davenport, Technical Director for the UT Southwestern Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Center of Excellence, and Sasha Alick-Lindstrom, Triple Board Neurologist and Chief Neurophysiologist/Epileptologist for the MEG Program
16 December – 18 December, 2021
The 51st Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
Sendai, Japan
January 20, 2022 2:00PM GMT (9:00AM EST)
Presented by BESA
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.
24 January – 27 January, 2022
Arab Health
Dubai, UAE
ABHI UK Pavilion Pod #2
27 January – 29 January, 2022
American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS) Annual Meeting
Orlando FL, USA
Exhibition Booth #216
February 25, 2022 2:00PM GMT (08:00AM CST)
Presented by Dr. Saleem Malik
Intricacies and misconceptions of Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
This masterclass presented by Dr. Saleem Malik, “will address the exquisite intricacies of frontal lobe epilepsy, which often can be misdiagnosed as sleep or psychiatric disorder. We shall start with review of peculiarities of craniocerebral anatomy of frontal lobe which represents 40% of total cortical volume. Particular attention will be paid to sub lobar areas which are either buried in cortex or strategically located away from convexity of brain where EEG electrodes are placed. We shall look into why semiological and electrical patterns of frontal lobe epilepsy often lack localizing and lateralizing features, contributing to relatively poor surgical outcomes? We shall review the role of Magnetic Source Imaging and see how higher spatio-temporal resolution of MSI complements Stereo EEG to delineate more accurately three dimension view of seizure propagation. At the end, we shall review few clinical cases and see how MSI is affecting lives of patients in real time.”
March 17, 2022 8:00AM GMT
Presented by Rik Henson
Using MEG to study healthy and unhealthy ageing
This Masterclass presented by Rik Henson will discuss “the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience’s CamCAN dataset. This is one of the largest open-access datasets, which includes MEG data collected on nearly 700 adults ranging from 18-88 years. We will discuss a study of how age-related slowing of task-related evoked responses in sensory cortices is mediated by changes in both grey-matter and white-matter, and how resting-state MEG reveals age-related changes in brief microstates (lasting a few hundred milliseconds) that relate to cognition. The session will also cover the BioFIND dataset of resting-state MEG data on 324 people, and how MEG offers complimentary information beyond MRI in distinguishing healthy ageing from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), a prodromal state of Alzheimer’s Disease.”
April 21, 2022
LFTY Finnish Society for Medical Physics and Medical Engineering
Lumituuli auditorium, Dipoli, Aalto University, Finland
6-7 May, 2022
Le Bonheur 15th Annual Pediatric Neurology Symposium
Hyatt Centric Beale Street, Memphis
15-18 May, 2022
ASNR (American Society of Neuroradiology) Annual Meeting
New York Hilton Midtown, NYC
Exhibition Booth #208
18-22 May, 2022
ICON 2022 (International Conference of Cognitive Neuroscience)
Dipoli Main, Aalto University, Finland
May 26, 2022 2:00PM BST (9:00AM EDT)
Presented by Oscar Ferrante and Ole Jensen
FLUX: A pipeline for MEG analysis supported by code and examples
This MEGIN Masterclass presented by Oscar Ferrante and Ole Jensen will discuss, “While there are several powerful open-source toolboxes developed for MEG analysis, the many options they provide pose a challenge for reproducible research as well as for researchers new to the field. The FLUX pipeline aims to make settings and analyses steps explicit for standard analysis done in clinical and cognitive neuroscience. Specifically, the pipeline includes documented code for MNE Python and FieldTrip as well as a data set to illustrate the steps. The pipeline also provides suggestions for text and parameter settings to be used in publications to improve replicability and facilitate pre-registrations. We expect that the FLUX pipeline will strengthen the field of MEG by providing standardization on the basic analysis steps as well as by supporting training.
June 1, 2022 10:00AM EEST
Presented by Veikko Jousmäki and Jukka Nenonen
WISE Technologist MaxFilter workshop: getting the most from signal space separation
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about MaxFilter but were afraid to ask!
This workshop will include:
-Pre-workshop access to background lectures
-Walkthrough of MaxFilter functionality and uses
-Hands-on guidance through sample datasets
-Troubleshooting tips and tricks
-Q&A sessions
*This workshop is free for all attendees affiliated with a MEGIN customer site. Other attendees will be charged 100EUR for the workshop