Webinars
Launched in 2020, the Brainbox Initiative Webinar Series is a free resource designed to stimulate the ongoing discussion and promotion of the fascinating work being carried out in the field of non-invasive brain stimulation and imaging research. Our webinars are hosted by a global range of guest speakers from academia and industry alike to provide a broad, accessible, and engaging series of talks and discussions that is open to everyone. We will continue to add further webinars to this series over time, so make sure to check back here and on our YouTube channel to ensure that you don’t miss any talks.
Threshold Tracking vs. Fixed Intensity TMS – Pros & Cons - Updated
This Brainbox Initiative webinar will provide an updated discussion on the comparison of fixed intensity and threshold tracking approaches to paired pulse TMS. This will include a comparison of practical and methodological pros and cons of both methods and an overview of recent studies illustrating their similarities and differences.
Speaker: Dr Róisín Mc Mackin
Dr Mc Mackin undertook her PhD in Clinical Medicine at Trinity College Dublin, using EEG and TMS to study cortical network malfunction in motor neurone disease. She subsequently undertook postdoctoral work expanding this work to see if EEG and TMS-based measures can be used as motor neurone disease biomarkers. Dr Mc Mackin is now an Assistant Professor in the Discipline of Physiology at Trinity College Dublin, where her team continue to research how we can sensitively, economically and non-invasively measure normal and impaired brain activity using electrophysiological methods. Róisín is particularly focused on undertaking research which is clinically translatable, which can lead to more accurate detection, prediction and treatment of diseases.
Time:
January 9th, 2025
14:00 - 15:00 GMT
Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation: A Cutting-Edge Approach To Neural Circuit Exploration
Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation (TUS) is a novel, noninvasive technique capable of stimulating both cortical and deep brain structures with high spatial precision. In this webinar, Professor Takahiro Osada will discuss the mechanisms underlying TUS, its safety considerations, and its applications in human studies.
Specifically, this webinar will highlight the modulation of motor cortex excitability through TUS, the role of the basal ganglia in response inhibition, and the macroscopic cerebral circuits involved in response inhibition, spanning perceptual to control processing. The integral approach, combining TUS and neuroimaging, demonstrates the potential of TUS to advance our understanding of cortical and subcortical networks.
Past webinars
You can find below our full range of past Brainbox Initiative Webinars, available for you to view on demand. We work closely will all of our speakers to ensure that we bring as much of this content to you as possible, and we will continue to keep this page updated as we bring more webinars into the range.
