Virtual Brain Meetings

PAST BRAIN MEETINGS

7th of December 2023,

Dr Ehsan Adeli (Stanford University)

Ambient intelligence shaping the future of home-based care

2nd of November 2023,

Dr Sofia Scataglini (University of Antwerp):

Digital human modelling and IoT technologiesfor health, care and well-being

12th of October 2023,

Professor Sebastiaan Meijer (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm):

On the intersection of formal methods, computers and real world health. Reflecting on two decades of methodological innovation

1st of June 2023,

Professor Diane J. Cook (Washington State University):

Data mining a human digital twinfor health assessment and intervention

4th of May 2023,

Dr Matteo Luperto (University of Milan):

At-home monitoring with social assistive robots:potential and limitations

2nd of March 2023, 

Professor Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe (Washington State University):

Using technology to enhance assessment and interventions methods promoting functional independencein the aging population

2nd of February 2023,

Professor Marcello Ienca (Technische Universität München):

AI & the ageing brain: mapping the ethical challenges

12th of January 2023, Professor Jim Glass (MIT):

Identifying speech biomarkers for cognitive health

1st of December 2022, Dr Qammer Abbasi (University of Glasgow):

Intelligent walls for future healthcare

24th of November 2022, Dr Jingwei Li (Forschungszentrum Jülich):

Machine learning for neuroimaging-based predictionof behavioural phenotypes: opportunities and challenges

17th of November 2022, Dr Marta Bianciardi (Harvard University):

Brainstem nuclei atlasing and connectomics in health and disease

3rd of November 2022, Dr Andrea Iaboni (University of Toronto):

Enhancing dementia care

using artificial intelligenceand vision-based or wearable sensors

20th of October 2022, Dr Chen Song (Cardiff University):

What constitutes an optimal brain architecture?

13th of October 2022, Dr Nele Demeyere (University of Oxford):

Can routine data help unravel post-stroke cognition?

6th of October 2022, Prof. George Demiris (University of Pennsylvania):

Passive sensing and smart home technologies:

opportunities to support ageing

7th of July 2022,

Professor David Wright (Missouri University of Science and Technology):

Smart home technology perspectives:

from living laboratories to home-based stories

23rd of June 2022, Dr Federica Agosta (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University):  Neuroimaging of neurodegeneration

9th of June 2022, Dr Rashmi Patel (King's College London):

Actionable analytics:

harnessing electronic health record data

to improve mental healthcare outcomes

26th of May 2022, Dr Alexandra Pike (University of York):

Reinforcement learning in patients with mood and anxiety disorders

vs control individuals:

a systematic review and meta-analysis

5th of May 2022, Dr Amanda Lazar (University of Maryland):

Designing consumer health informatics applications

with people with dementia

7th of April 2022, Professor David Clifton (University of Oxford):

Advances in non-imaging AI for healthcare

24th of March 2022, Dr Adriana Azor (Imperial College London):

Neuroimaging markers of blast traumatic brain injury

17th of March 2022,  Professor Srikantan Nagarajan (UCSF): 

Imaging neural oscillatory networks in dementia

10th of March 2022, Dr Dora Hermes Miller (Mayo Clinic): 

Neuronal synchrony in visual pathways

3rd of March 2022, Professor Amit Sheth (University of South Carolina): 

Augmented personalized health:

dHealth approach to patient empowerment

for managing chronic disease burden   

17th of February 2022, Dr Mallar Chakravarty (McGill University): 

Mapping brain structure using multi-modal and -variate investigations: subcortical and cortical phenotypes in mental health and illness

3rd of February 2022, 

Professor Frank Knoefel (University of Ottawa):

Can off-the-shelf smart home technology be used

in dementia wandering research?   

27th of January 2022,

Professor Lars Muckli (University of Glasgow): 

Layers of primary visual cortex

as a window into internal models

about predicted and simulated environments

20th of January 2022,

Professor Shirley Fecteau (Laval University):

Noninvasive neuromodulation:

considerations of brain morphometry and behaviours 

13th of January 2022,

Dr Marzia De Lucia (University of Lausanne):

Brain function in coma: implications for consciousness research

16th of December 2021,

Dr Jessica Cohen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill):

The cognitive relevance of functional brain network dynamics

across different timescales

9th of December 2021, 

Dr Christine Tardif (McGill University):

Imaging brain myelination using quantitative magnetic resonance imaging

2nd of December 2021, 

Dr Julieta Camino De La Llosa (University of East Anglia):

A different and tidier kitchen:

can people with dementia perform tasks in a new environment?

25th of November 2021, Professor Virginie van Wassenhove (INSERM):

Making sense of time in the human brain

18th of November 2021, Professor Martin Monti (UCLA):

Ultrasonic thalamic stimulation in disorders of consciousness

11th of November 2021, Dr Anna Bonkhoff (Harvard University):

Big data in stroke: generative modelling of patient outcomes


4th of November  2021, Professor Dame Louise Robinson

(Newcastle University):

Liberté, égalité, fraternité… Time for a revolution in dementia care? 

28th of October 2021, Dr Jiaxiang Zhang (Cardiff University):

Dissecting the neurocognitive processes of simple decisions

21st of October 2021,  Professor Morgan Barense (University of Toronto): Understanding real-world event memory:

insights from the HippoCamera, a smartphone intervention

14th of October 2021,  Dr Karl (Gus) Zimmerman (Imperial College London): The biomechanical signature of loss of consciousness

1st of July 2021, Professor Rhoda Au (Boston University):

Accelerating discovery and innovation for brain health in the digital era

8th of July 2021, Dr Ruchira Jha (University of Pittsburgh): 

Cerebral Edema in TBI. Making it personal:

a translational evaluation of sulfonylurea Receptor 1

24th of June 2021, Professor Brian Levine (University of Toronto):

Autobiographical memory: behaviour, brain, and individual differences

17th of June 2021, Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti (University of Parma):

The mirror mechanism

10th of June 2021, Professor Max Wintermark (Stanford University): Neuroimaging and psychiatric disorders: a new clinical paradigm

3rd of June 2021, Professor Christine Hine (University of Surrey):

Ethical frameworks and ethics in practice for smart care

20th of May 2021, Professor Rita Goldstein (Icahn School of Medicine): Neuroimaging in drug addiction: an eye towards intervention development

13th of May 2021, Dr Pete Lally (C3NL, Imperial College London):

A rapid MRI pulse sequence for 3D super-resolution

6th of May 2021, Dr Elvira Perez Vallejos (University of Nottingham):

The Memory Machine

29th of April 2021, Professor Olaf Sporns (Indiana University):

The architecture of human brain networks

8th of April 2021, Dr Walter Karlen (ETH Zurich): 

Closing loops with digital health systems

25th of March 2021, Dr Marie Hanscom (Trinity College Dublin): 

The Impact of colonic inflammation 

during chronic experimental traumatic brain injury in mice

on long-term outcomes

18th of March 2021, Dr Caroline Lustenberger (ETH Zurich): 

Can we create a better version of sleep using non-invasive brain stimulation?

11th of March 2021, Dr Helena Rutherford (Yale):

Understanding maternal addiction:

a neuroscience-informed approach

4th of March 2021, Dr Tanvi Banerjee (Wright State University): 

Caregiver assessment using smart technology

25th of February 2021, Dr Livia Tomova (University of Cambridge):

Neural signals of social craving

following acute social isolation in the human brain

18th of February 2021, Dr Michele Veldsman (University of Oxford): 

Healthy heart, healthy brain – 

cardiovascular risk factors affecting cognition and brain health as we age

11th of February 2021, Dr Neil Graham (C3NL, Imperial College London): Traumatic brain injury, neurodegeneration and dementia

4th of February 2021, Professor Selina Wray (UCL):

Human stem cell models of Alzheimer's Disease

28th of January 2021, Dr Sook-Lei Liew (University of Southern California):

Big data brain imaging, virtual reality and brain computer interfaces

for stroke rehabilitation

21st of January 2021, Dr Francesca Zanderigo (Columbia University): Noninvasive quantification of brain glucose metabolism using

a portable Positron Emission Tomography (PET) camera: 

paving the way for a radically broader use of quantitative PET imaging

14th of January 2021, Dr Chris Butler (C3NL, Imperial College London): Stimulating the brain with sound: 

transcranial focused ultrasound for neuromodulation

7th of January 2021, Professor Joanna Wardlaw (The University of Edinburgh): Vascular contributions to dementia

10th of December 2020, Professor Emery Brown (MIT):

Dynamics of the unconscious brain under general anesthesia

3rd of December 2020, Professor Claire Goodman (University of Hertfordshire): Improving  dementia care using  technology in care homes:

what’s known, needed and necessary

when doing research in and with care homes

26th of November 2020, Richard Ibitoye (C3NL, Imperial College London):

The human vestibular cortex: functional anatomy, connectivity

and the effect of peripheral vestibular disease

26th of November 2020, Danielle Kurtin (C3NL, Imperial College London): SuperModels: using mean-field, oscillatory models

to understand neural network dynamics

19th of November 2020, Dr Roy Hamilton (University of Pennsylvania): Stimulating conversations: using noninvasive neuromodulation

to characterise and treat aphasia due to stroke and degenerative disease

12th of November 2020, Dr Mariann Weierich (University of Nevada):

Markers and neural mechanisms of trauma-related hypervigilance 

5th of November 2020, Professor Caleb Webber (Cardiff University): Understanding Parkinson’s disease from the cells up to the patients

and from the patients down to the cells

29th of October 2020, Dr Vemuri Prashanthi (Mayo Clinic): 

Exceptional brain and cognitive aging: reserve, resistance, and resilience

22nd of October 2020, Professor Penelope Lewis (Cardiff University):

What does REM sleep do for memory

15th of October 2020, Dr Hayride Cagnan (University of Oxford): 

Exploring the role of neural synchrony in pathology

8th of October 2020, Dr Wenjia Ba (C3NL, Imperial College London):

Machine learning for medical image analysis

1st of October 2020, Dr Keir Yong (UCL):

Progressive cortical disorders of vision and spatial awareness:

considering support, environmental and device accessibility needs

3rd of September 2020, Dr Kevin Doughty: 

From identification of issues to more targeted interventions

to support the independence of vulnerable people in the community

9th of July of 2020, Professor Roshan Cools (Radboud University): 

Chemistry of the adaptive mind.

Lessons from dopamine's effects on human cognition

2nd of July of 2020, Professor Cathie Sudlow (University of Edinburgh): Population-based big data for studying the determinants of disease

25th of June 2020, Professor Danielle S. Bassett (University of Pennsylvania): Networks thinking themselves

18th of June 2020, Dr Catie Chang (Vanderbilt University):

Multimodal imaging of state-dependent fMRI dynamics

11th of June 2020, Emma Mallas (C3NL, Imperial College London): 

Understanding post-traumatic amnesia after traumatic brain injury

 4th of June 2020, Dr Hugh Harvey (UCL):

Clinical validation and regulation of AI in healthcare

28th of May 2020, Dr Neal Bangerter (C3NL, Imperial College London):

Novel methods for quantitative imaging at ultra-high field (7T)

 21st of May 2020, Lucina Uddin (University of Miami):

Cognitive flexibility: neural mechanisms and clinical considerations

14th of May 2020, Niall Bourke (C3NL, Imperial College London):

The social brain: implications of traumatic brain injury