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.
Magnetoencephalography Without a Shielded Room
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) offers exceptional temporal and spatial precision for non-invasive brain imaging. Yet, its widespread adoption has long been constrained by the prohibitive cost and infrastructure required to house systems in magnetically shielded rooms.
In an upcoming Brainbox Initiative webinar, Dr Tim Tierney will share how he and his team are challenging this long-standing limitation with a new approach to MEG: a lightweight, low-cost, multichannel system capable of imaging brain activity without the need for a magnetically shielded room.
Dr Tim Tierney completed his PhD in medical imaging at UCL in 2017, with his doctoral research focused on the use of simultaneous EEG-fMRI in paediatric epilepsy.
Since then, he has worked on developing a new neuroimaging technology: the optically pumped magnetometer (OPM). After securing a fellowship from the Epilepsy Research Institute, he has focused on both software and hardware approaches to making OPM systems more robust for emerging applications in cognitive and clinical neuroscience.
He now holds a faculty position in the UCL Department of Imaging Neuroscience, where he is a principal investigator and group leader.
Join Dr Tierney to explore the methods behind the system, the challenges of recording and localising faint neural signals in an unshielded environment, and the potential to make MEG more accessible to researchers and healthcare professionals worldwide.
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.
