Virtual Brain Meetings

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

2nd of November 2023,

Speaker TBC

Title TBC

7th of December 2023,

Dr Ehsan Adeli (Stanford University)

Ambient intelligence shaping the future of home-based care

PAST BRAIN MEETINGS

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