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Sensory processing during sleep and dreams
Prof. Dr. Giulio BernardiDone
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Gamma-Band Oscillations and Schizophrenia: A Translational and Developmental Perspective
Prof. Dr. Peter J. UhlhaasDone
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Motor reorganization after stroke: From pathophysiology to treatment strategies
Caroline TscherpelDone
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Frontiers in Non-invasive Brain Stimulation: Clinical Applications and Future Directions
Surjo SoekadarDone
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Keynote: Cardiac and auditory regularity encoding in human wakefulness, sleep and coma
Dr. Marzia De LuciaDone
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EEG in health monitoring for long-term spaceflight
Prof. Patrique FiedlerDone
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EEG based triage of stroke patients in the ambulance
Dr. Wouter PottersDone
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Modelling the electrophysiology of hierarchical speech and language processing
Associate Prof. Edmund LalorDone
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Introduction
Sebastian CarstensDone
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Brain sources of the theta EEG rhythm underlying inhibitory control and replanning in active navigation in the Virtual House Locomotor Maze
Prof. Dr. Guy CheronDone
Vincent Jonany studied informatics in the university of Washington, Seattle, and completed his master’s studies in computer science at the Technical University of Berlin. Since then, he has joined the Clinical Neurotechnology Laboratory of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin to develop clinical applications using the newly developed optically-pumped magnetometer sensors. He is currently doing his PhD on bidirectional brain-computer interface under the guidance of Prof. Surjo Soekadar, and is interested in reading and modulating brain oscillation to learn its causal relationship to behavior and function.
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is a widespread approach used to understand the causal role of brain oscillations in brain function and behaviour. However, effects of tACS are known to depend on the brain state during stimulation. To reduce variability of stimulation effects, it would be necessary to adapt tACS to ongoing brain oscillations during stimulation. However, electric artifacts in simultaneously recorded electro- and magnetoencephalography (EEG/MEG) have impeded assessment of brain oscillations targeted by tACS. Recently, optically-pumped magnetometry (OPM) was developed, enabling room-temperature MEG recordings directly from the scalp, with a substantially improved signal-to-noise ratio and higher spatial resolution. In this talk, I will show how OPM-MEG can become a useful tool to understand immediate effects of tACS by allowing us to recover evoked alpha and gamma band brain oscillations. This also paves the way for a closed-loop neuromodulation system where tACS is adapted to ongoing brain states (i.e., phase of ongoing oscillation and connectivity measures) that were previously harder to recover precisely due to insufficient signal-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution. Finally, some potential clinical applications of methods mentioned are discussed.