Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

Monday the 4th - Friday the 8th of August, 2008

Department of Biomedical Engineering and
Computational Science

Helsinki University of Technology
Otakaari 7 B
Espoo, Finland
Room 432 on 4th floor


6 cu


Requirements:
- Participation in lectures and demonstrations
- 1-page summary of each lecture and the corresponding book chapters (you may limit your reporting to 50% of the pages)

Course material: "The Oxford Handbook of Transcranial Stimulation", Wassermann et al., Editors, Oxford University Press 2008. Amazon
In addition, the lecturers will talk about their own TMS research.
Registration: Before 21.7.2008, Hanna Mäki, hanna.maki ät hut.fi
 

Schedule:

DateTimeTopic
Mo 4.8. Introduction to the basics of TMS and human brain
 12.15-14.00Risto Ilmoniemi: electromagnetism and TMS technology,
ch 1,2,5,7,8
 14.00-16.00Jarmo Ruohonen: electromagnetism and TMS technology,
ch 3,4,6
 16.00-19.00Risto Ilmoniemi: Introduction to human brain
 19.00Evening program: getting to know each other and evening meal
Tu 5.8. TMS Measures of motor cortical and corticospinal excitability. TMS safety
 08.00-11.30Jari Karhu: TMS Measures of motor cortical and corticospinal excitability, ch 9-15, 18
 11.30-12.00Risto Ilmoniemi, ch 16,17
 12.00-13.00Lunch
 13.00-14.00Hanna Mäki: Safety of TMS and the effect of stimulation parameters
 14.00-17.00Jari Karhu: MEP in health and disease, ch 19-26
We 6.8. TMS-evoked EEG, inverse problem. TMS in perception and cognition
 08.00-11.00Jukka Sarvas: The inverse problem of TMS-evoked EEG
 11.00-12.00Aapo Nummenmaa: The inverse problem of TMS-evoked EEG
 12.00-13.00Lunch
 13.00-14.00Synnöve Carlsson: TMS in perception and cognition, ch 27-30
 14.00-15.00Synnöve Carlsson: TMS in perception and cognition, ch 31-33
 16.30-19.00TMS demo, BioMag laboratory, Meilahti, Helsinki
Th 7.8. TMS and brain mapping
 08.00-10.00Risto Ilmoniemi, ch 34, 37
 10.00-12.00Tuomas Neuvonen, ch 35, 36
 12.00-13.00Lunch
 13.00-14.00Synnöve Carlsson: TMS in perception and cognition,
ch 27-30
 14.30-18.00Hands-on training on using TMS, BioMag laboratory, Meilahti, Helsinki
Fr 8.8. Therapeutic applications of TMS
 08.00-10.00Dubravko Kicic, ch 38-41
 10.00-12.00Pantelis Lioumis, ch 42-45
 12.00-13.00Lunch
 13.00-14.30Risto Ilmoniemi, ch 46

Video lectures of the course available at:
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