Schedule of Planned Activities

Location: Ford Alumni Center Board Room University of Oregon

October 12

9:00. Opening Comments

• Dr. Elliot Berkman
  University of Oregon Divisional Associate Dean, Natural Sciences and Center for Translational Neuroscience Co-Director

9:10. Keynote

• Dr. Thomas Knösche
  Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
  “From coil to muscle – comprehensive modelling of motor TMS”

10:15 to noon. Thirty-minute Talks

• Dr. Konstantin Weise
  Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
  “How to Couple Electric Fields to Neurons and Circuits”

• Renxiang Qiu
  Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
  “Mapping the motor cortex with TMS”

• Dr. Vincent Chien
  Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  “Spinal Recurrent Inhibition Shapes the Dynamics of TMS-induced Motor-Evoked Potentials: A Computational Modeling Study”

noon to 1:00. lunch

1:00 to 3:00. SimNIBS Workshop

• Overview
• Head Model and ROI: what the model contains, how to check it, and how coil position and orientation shape the E-field.
• The Experiment: choosing an initial target, recording coil poses and MEPs across the motor map, importing navigation data, and checking common errors such as mirrored maps from axis conventions.
• A Field for Every Pulse: efficiently computing E-fields for hundreds of stimulations.
• Localization: relating local E-field strength to MEP amplitude to obtain muscle-specific maps and hotspots, and assessing how many pulses are needed for a reliable result.
• From Map to Stimulation Target: converting the hotspot into an optimized coil pose for the next session, exporting it to neuronavigation system, and expressing stimulation dose as target E-field rather than %MSO.
• Hackathon Challenges

3:15 to 4:30. Seven-minute Talks

• Dr. Charalambos Charalambous
  Duke University School of Medicine
  “Cortical Mapping of Bilateral Motor Descending Projections to Lower Extremity Muscles”

• Dr. Phivos Phylactou
  University of Nevada, Reno
  “TMS induced pupil dilations as a cortical excitability measure”

• Dr. Jumes Lira
  Oregon Health & Science University
  “Cortical Activity and Gait in Healthy Controls and People with Parkinson’s across PFC phenotypes”

• Dr. Elena Mussini
  Università degli Studi di Milano
  “Heartbeats in Action: cardiac dynamics across motor processing”

• Hayami Nishio
  University of Oregon
  “Intracortical inhibition during motor learning as a function of task complexity and the relationship to retention”

• Dr. Sara Parmigiani
  University of Oregon
  “DBS and EEG Integration in Parkinson’s Disease for Motor and Non-Motor Symptoms”

4:45. Recap of the day and preparation for Day 2

6:30. Official Conference Reception @ Marche Restaurant

October 13

9:00 to noon. Thirty-minute Talks

• Dr. Ian Greenhouse
  University of Oregon
  “Mapping state-dependent motor cortex sensitivity to TMS”

• Dr. Corey Wadsley
  University of Auckland
  “Goal-directed functional tuning in M1”

• Dr. Deborah Barrany
  University of Georgia
  “Probing Motor System Excitability During Planning of Complex Reaching Trajectories”

• Dr. Carolynn Patten
  University of Washington
  “TMS Reveals Motor System Function Differs During Movement”

noon to 1:00. lunch

1:00 to 3:00. Hackathon

• Visualization and statistical analysis of previously acquired data

3:15 to 5:15. Brainstorming Round Table

• What problems can be addressed?
  • Clinical vs Basic Science Applications
  • Experiment Planning

6:30. Dinner @ TBD

October 14

9:00 to 11:30. Guided Grant Proposal Development Workshop

• Emma Lynn UO, Global Research Development
• Kate Petcosky-Kulkarny, UO Vice President of Research and Innovation

11:45. Closing Comments

noon. Bag lunch

12.15. Voodies interviews at the Puddles the Duck statue - optional

optional walk/hike activity

Depart Eugene, OR