Brain Meeting at the CHUV
A weekly meeting dedicated to human neuroimaging open to all research groups at CHUV, UNIL and EPFL.
Each meeting includes two short presentations: a project presentation (10 min presentation, 20 min disussion with the audience) and one talk (20 min presentation, 10 min discussion) on topics broadly related to human neuroimaging. We encourage a dynamic mix of presentation types including "Methods", and "Science". PI's, post-docs, students, clinicians, and visiting scientists are all welcome to present at the Brain Meeting.
Time and Venue: Fridays 3.30-4.30pm at the CHUV
ANDROS Meeting Room, easy to find near the cafe on the main entrance level (directions here).
Presentation Types:
3.30-4 pm
Project: An opportunity for a researcher to present a planned neuroimaging study and get feedback from the group. The goal is to maximize the chance that the proposed project will answer the specified research question.
4-4.30 pm
Methods: An educative opportunity for the group to learn from a researcher with a particular methodological expertise in neuroimaging data acquisition, processing, or statistical analysis.
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Science: A research presentation on the results of a completed or near-completed study, geared towards the broader neuroimaging community.
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Distinguished speaker series: Once a month a full academic lecture (45 min) will be given by a distinguished neuroscientist.
More information for speakers:
LREN_BrainMeeting_guidelines.pdf
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Upcoming Talks
11 May 2012
Presentation type: Project 15:30 - 16:00
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Marzia De Lucia
"Global mismatch negativity does not require awareness of stimulus regularity"
Auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) are informative of intact brain functions in comatose patients. One marker is provided by the differerential AEPs responses to standard and rare sounds in a mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm. MMN induced by the repetition of groups of sounds (global MMN) has been reported only when subjects were aware of the regularity (Bekinschtein et al. 2009). Here I challenge this evidence by showing evidence of global MMN on postanoxic comatose patients who underwent therapeutic hypothermia.
18 May 2012
Presentation type: Project 15:30 - 16:00
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25 May 2012
Presentation type: Project 15:30 - 16:00
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Joseph Ghika
"Paleoneurology: neurodegenerative age-related diseases rely on the interaction of epigenetics and brain areas recently developed by Homo sapiens"
Paleoneurology gives the key for understanding the mechanisms underlying the neurodegeneration of recently evolved human brain regions including the focal, asymmetrical or systemic character of neurodegeneration, the pathologic heterogeneity/overlap of syndromic presentations associating gait, hand, language, cognition, mood and behavior disorders.
1 June 2012
Presentation type: Project 15:30 - 16:00
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Wietske van der Zwaag
"The hand representation in the human cerebellum overlaps with the digit representations"
The human cerebellum contains a relatively little studied, double homunculus. Within these homunculi, body parts are known to show overlap at millimeter resolutions. I will present the results of a study where we mapped the layout of individual digits and the hand using fMRI and evaluated the overlap between these representations.
8 June 2012
Presentation type: Project 15:30 - 16:00
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Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua
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15 June 2012
Presentation type: Project 15:30 - 16:00
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22 June 2012
Presentation type: Project 15:30 - 16:00
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Giorgio Innocenti
"Different connectivity of cortical areas in primates"
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29 June 2012
Presentation type: Project 15:30 - 16:00
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Jonas Richiardi
"Taking fMRI functional connectivity graphs beyond group statistics"
Whole-brain connectivity information is becoming increasingly popular and for good reasons: it provides complementary information to statistical activation maps, and enables fundamental insights into the network organization of the brain in terms of information flow, resilience, efficiency, or modularity.
