October 31- November 3, 2011

5 credits Venue: Aalto University, Espoo, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science (BECS), hall F336. (Address: Otakaari 3) Course material: The course is basen on the book: "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.
Course Director: Prof. Risto Ilmoniemi Requirements: - Participation in lectures and demonstrations, - written home work (instructions will be given) Registrations: by September 16th to the coordinator Riikka Ahola

Timetable: updated Aug 26th

Monday 31.10. Basics of TMS, TMS of the motor cortex

12:00 Risto Ilmoniemi: Electromagnetism & TMS technology (ch 1, 2, 5, 7, 8)
14:00 TMS measures of cortical and corticospinal excitability (ch 16, 17, include main points of ch 9-15, 18)
15:45 Coffee break
16:00-17:45 Risto Ilmoniemi: The human brain and its stimulation
19:00 Get-together (Sponsored by Nextstim)

Tuesday 1.11. TMS combined with neuroimaging

9:15 Hanna Mäki: TMS-EEG (ch 34, 37)
11:00 Julio Cesar Hernandez Pavon: Methods for removing muscle artifacts in TMS-EEG data; studying connectivity and mapping in artifactual brain areas
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Jukka Sarvas: Statistical analysis
15:00 Coffee break
15:15-17:00 Petri Savolainen: TMS-PET, TMS-fMRI (ch 35-36)

Wednesday 2.11. Therapeutic applications of TMS

9:15 Satu Jääskeläinen: Depression, pain (ch 40, 46, incl. main points of ch 38, 39, 41)
11:00 Dubravko Kicic: Schizophrenia, anxiety, movement disorders, neurorehabilitation (ch 42-45)
12:30 Lunch
14:30-17:00 TMS demo & hands-on training, BioMag laboratory

Thursday 3.11. Perception and cognition, presurgical mapping

9:15 Juha Silvanto: TMS and visual awareness, visual cognition, crossmodal functions (ch 27-29)
11:00 Synnöve Carlson: TMS and motor cognition, language, memory, mathematics (ch 30-33)
12:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Tuomas Neuvonen: Presurgical mapping

Additional material: Virtual lectures as self-study material :http://www.evicab.eu/

Jarmo Ruohonen
ch 3: stimulator design
ch 4: stimulation coils
ch 6: lessons learned from models and peripheral stimulation

Jari Karhu
ch 9-15, 18: TMS measures of motor cortical and corticospinal excitability
ch 19-26 MEP in health and disease

Hanna Mäki
safety of TMS

Dubravko Kicic
ch 38-41: Therapeutic applications of TMS (TMS-induced plasticity, clinical trial design, depression, bipolar disorder)