Schedule

Day 1: 16.02.2012

10:30 Registration and Coffee

11:00 Prof. Dr. Roger Gassert (ETH): Introductions

11:15 Prof. Dr. Rainer Goebel (University of Maastricht): Real-time fMRI neurofeedback and brain computer interfaces: Methods and applications

12:00 Dr. Christopher deCharms (Omneuron): Real Time fMRI: Clinical Trial Results and a Current Appraisal

12:45 Lunch

14:00 Dr. med. Sergio Ruiz (University of Tuebingen): Neurofeedback based on real-time fMRI: Applications in schizophrenia and direct brain connectivity enhancement

14:15 Dr. med. Annette Bruehl (Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich): Training to regulate the amygdala by means of real-time fMRI neurofeedback

14:30 Prof. Dr. David Linden (University of Bangor): Clinical applications of fMRI-neurofeedback in neuropsychiatry

15:15 Coffee

15:30 Dr. med Leonardo Cohen (National Institutes of Health): Parietofrontal integrity determines neural modulation associated with grasping imagery after stroke

16:15 Dr. Maria Laura Blefari (ETH): Real-time fMRI neurofeedback as a tool to investigate motor performance

16:30 Dr. Amanda Kaas (University of Maastricht): Online decoding of finger activations using fMRI

16:45 Dr. med. Maurice Hollman (Max Planck Institute Leipzig): Learned regulation of activity in posterior insular cortex using real-time fMRI neurofeedback

17:45 Depart from main entrance (Raemistrasse) of main building to Restaurant Linde Oberstrass

18:00 Dinner at Linde Oberstrass

Day 2: 17.02.2012

8:30 Coffee and Registration

9:00 Prof. Dr. Niels Birbaumer (University of Tuebingen): Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) in paralysis and psychological disorders

9:45 Dr. Nikolaus Weiskopf (University College London) Real-Time fMRI: From MR Physics to Neurofeedback

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Prof. Dr. Ranganatha Sitaram (University of Tuebingen, University of Florida)

11:45 Dr. Frank Scharnowski (University of Geneva): Improving visual perception through neurofeedback

12:00 Dr. James Sulzer (ETH): Neurofeedback-mediated self-regulation of substantia nigra

12:15 Sebastian Baecke (Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg): Social interaction in real-time with hyperscan fMRI

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Prof. Dr. Stephen LaConte (Virginia Tech University)

14:15 Dr. med. Sven Haller (University of Geneva): Dynamical reconfiguration of human brain functional networks during self-regulation in real-time fMRI

14:30 Dr. Yury Koush (Aachen University): BOLD neurofeedback at high and ultra-high magnetic field: real-time Bayesian signal processing, functional MR imaging and spectroscopy

14:45 Balint Varkuti (University of Tuebingen): Real-time regulation of perfusion in the brain using ASL

15:00 Coffee

15:30 Roundtable Discussion

17:00 Closing