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This course is designed for master's and doctoral students specializing in human brain mapping, regardless of their primary academic background. While prior knowledge of brain mapping is beneficial, it is not mandatory. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical expertise in various neuroimaging techniques.
Registration and a course fee are required for participation. To register, please complete the registration form and proceed with the payment through the MUNI Shopping Center using the links provided below. The deadline for registration is November 11th.
Payments
Participation is free of charge for students of the Master's and Doctoral programs in Neuroscience at Faculty of Medicine Masaryk University.
Students enrolled in other fields will have to pay a participation fee of 750 CZK or 30 EUR.
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For payments in EUR please click HERE.
Other staff will have to pay a participation fee of 1500 CZK or 60 EUR.
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Programme
Wednesday 19th November
- 08:30–09:15 Registration of participants
- 09:15–09:25 Introduction to the course (Michal Mikl)
- 09:25–10:15 Anatomical and physiological backgrounds to brain mapping (Pavel Hok)
- 10:15–10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30–12:00 Overview of MRI principles for non-physicists (Zenon Starčuk)
- 12:00–13:00 Lunch
- 13:00–14:45 functional MRI basics
- Principles of fMRI (Michal Mikl)
- fMRI data preprocessing (Anežka Kovářová)
- Statistical analysis of fMRI data (Martin Gajdoš)
- Overview of fMRI connectivity (Martin Gajdoš) - 14:45–15:00 Coffee break
- 15:00–17:00 Advanced fMRI and related topics
- How to prepare acquisition of fMRI data (Michal Mikl)
- fMRI neurofeedback (Pavla Horká Linhartová)
- Dynamical signatures of resting state activity (Jan Fousek)
- Basics of human brain perfusion imaging with ASL (Martin Gajdoš)
- Data quality issues in MRI/fMRI (Michal Mikl)
Thursday 20th November
- 09:00–10:30 Electrophysiological methods in brain mapping
- EEG data preprocessing (Martin Lamoš)
- Analysis of EEG microstates (Tomáš Jordánek)
- High-density EEG data analysis (Martin Lamoš) - 10:30–10:45 Coffee break
- 10:45–11:30 Electrophysiology and fMRI
- Simultaneous EEG-fMRI (Radek Mareček)
- SignalPlant - software for EEG data handling and deep learning (Filip Plešinger) - 11:30–12:15 Diffusion MRI and fibre tracking
- Principles of DWI and fiber tracking (Jan Valošek) - 12:15–13:15 Lunch
- 13:15–15:00 Practical session in MRI labs
- Placed at MAFIL labs (2nd underground floor)
- Two parallel groups: A) simultaneous EEG-fMRI recording, B) advanced fMRI approaches and fMRI accessories - 15:00–15:15 Coffee break
- 15:15–16:30 Morphometry
- Principles and methods of brain morphometry (Pavel Říha)
- Group analysis in morphometry and other advanced topics (Radek Mareček)
Friday 21th November
- 09:00–10:30 Noninvasive brain stimulation techniques
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation- basic principles and applications (Luboš Brabenec)
- Transcranial electric stimulation- basic principles and novel methods of NIBS (Monika Pupíková)
- Combination of NIBS with other neuroimaging techniques (Ľubomíra Nováková) - 10:30–10:45 Coffee break
- 10:45–11:30 Differences between animal and human studies. technical aspects of animal studies. Quantitative imaging, physiological models, and Perfusion (Ondřej Macíček)
- 11:30–12:15 Neuroimaging studies and data – practical aspects
- Data workflow and data formats in neuroimaging. FAIR data, preparation of publicly available datasets (Tomáš Slavíček)
- How to prepare and conduct neuroimaging study – practical hints (Michal Mikl) - 12:15–13:15 Lunch
- 13:15–15:30 fMRI data processing with SPM - practical session
- Processing of fMRI data in SPM12 with example dataset (Kateřina Ingrová / Tereza Švestková)
