SPM Course 2011

Faculty

John Ashburner (FIL - UCL, London, UK)                
Guillaume Flandin (FIL - UCL, London, UK)
Jürgen Dukart (LREN, DNC - CHUV, Lausanne)   
Ferath Kherif (LREN, DNC - CHUV, Lausanne)
Bogdan Draganski (LREN, DNC - CHUV, Lausanne)

Programme

Monday 16 May 
What can Computational Anatomy tell us about mental disorders?

15:00 - 16:00 Computational anatomy in clinical neuroscience
Prof. Richard Frackowiak (LREN, DNC - CHUV, Lausanne)

16:00 - 17:00 MR physics - basic principles & new developments
Dr. Nikolaus Weiskopf (FIL - UCL, London, UK)

17:00 - 18:00 Computational anatomy - state-of-the-art and future prospects
Dr. John Ashburner (FIL - UCL, London, UK)

Tuesday 17 May (Data pre-processing)

9.00 - 9.45 Introduction to SPM
9.45 - 10.30 Hands-on session

11.00 - 11.45 Spatial preprocessing
11.45 - 12.30 Hands-on session

13.30 – 15.15 Hands-on session with data examples
15.15 – 16.00 Clinic and discussion

Wednesday 18 May (Statistical analysis)

9.00 - 9.45 Model specification, model estimation
9.45 - 10.30 Hands-on session

11.00 - 11.45 Hypothesis testing, reporting results
11.45 - 12.30 Hands-on session

13.30 – 15.00 Hands-on session with data examples
15.00 – 16.00 Participants presentations
 

• Previous Course

LREN offered a short course in Dec 2010 on "MRI: Statistical Parametric Mapping" designed for those interested in brain morphometry. The course included theoretical and practical sessions on how to conduct neuroimaging analyses.  25 participants came from CHUV, UNIL, and EPFL.