VIII International School for Young Scientists

'Active and Passive Methods of Brain Research'

About school

Many important discoveries have been made in the field of functional and morpho-physiological brain mapping. These discoveries significantly expand our understanding of how the brain works. Modern technologies, such as TMS, TES, and EEG, efficiently evaluate the role of the various structures of the brain in specific cognitive domains and promote understanding of the complex work of the whole brain.

School participants have a unique opportunity to get hands-on experience with these techniques (TMS, TES, EEG) and learn about their advantages and limitations. The programme also covers topics on data analysis and interpretation.

Note: Sorry, registration is now closed. You can participate in a poster session or
watch lectures online

Day1

27/10/22 Basics of NIBS

9:30 – 10:00

Registration & coffee

Myasnitskaya 20, room 101

10:00 – 10:30

Welcome speech & Introduction

A. Shestakova, M. Feurra, E. Blagoveshchensky

Myasnitskaya 20, room 101

10:30 – 13:00

Basics of NIBS

Myasnitskaya 20, room 101

10:30 – 11:30

Transcranial alternating current stimulation of the motor system

M. Feurra (HSE)

11:30 – 12:30

Use of TMS for clinical and research purposes on cervical dystonia

A. Ragimova (HSE)

12:30 – 13:00

TMS/tES application in social neuroscience

O. Zinchenko (HSE)

13:00 – 13:30

Neuronal interfaces for rehabilitation

M. Lebedev (HSE)

13:30 – 14:00

Use of TMS in neuroeconomic research

K. Panidi (HSE)

14:00 – 15:00

Lunch

Myasnitskaya 20, canteen

15:00 – 19:00

Practical sessions

Krivokolenniy sidewalk 3, entrance 2, TMS labs

15:00 – 17:00

Basics of TMS

A. Ragimova, M. Makarova, M. Feurra

17:00 – 19:00

Basics of TES

M. Feurra, C. Nieto

Day2

28/10/22 Combination of NIBS techniques and their use in Neuroscientific Research

10:00 – 13:00

Methodological aspects of NIBS

Myasnitskaya 20, room 101

10:00 – 11:00

Intervention in the brain

E. Blagoveshchensky (HSE)

11:00 – 11:30

TMS speeds up responses in perceptual decision-making and motor imagery tasks

Susan Gordleeva (Nizhny Novgorod State University)

11:30 – 12:00

TES devices and their competitiveness

N. Otstavnov (HSE)

12:00 – 13:00

Application of rTMS for the study of LTM formation

G. Galli (Kingston University)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

Myasnitskaya 20, canteen

14:00 – 16:00

NIBS for clinical and fundamental research

Myasnitskaya 20, room 101

14:00 – 15:00

Paired associative stimulations: from basic research to clinical applications

T. Popa (Lausanne University)

15:00 – 16:00

TMS motor mapping: principles and limitations

M. Nazarova (Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA), M. Makarova (HSE), A. Sukmanova (HSE)

16:00 – 18:00

Practical sessions

Krivokolenniy sidewalk 3, entrance 2, TMS labs

16:00 – 18:00

TMS-EEG

E. Blagoveshchensky, M. Makarova

18:00 – 21:00

POSTER SESSION AND HALLOWEEN PARTY

Click to get invited!

Krivokolenniy sidewalk 3, entrance 2, room 217

Day3

29/10/22 Individual differences & Data analysis

10:00 – 13:00

Data management: from sample recruitment to open data

Krivokolenniy sidewalk 3, entrance 2, room 217

10:00 – 10:30

NIBS effects and Individual differences

V. Djurdjevic (HSE)

10:30 – 11:00

Data storage and sharing in BIDS

A. Faber (HSE)

11:00 – 11:30

SONA system

D. Bredikhin (HSE)

11:30 – 12:00

SimNIBS

C. Nieto (HSE)

12:00 – 13:00

Reproducibility problem in Cognitive Neuroscience

Round table
Moderator: E. Rybina (HSE)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

Myasnitskaya 20, canteen

Krivokolenniy sidewalk 3, entrance 2, room 217

14:00 – 15:00

Advances on the vestibular system function, dysfunction and treatment through transcranial oscillatory potentials (tACS)

S. Rossi (University of Siena)

15:00 – 16:00

Gender bias in Cognitive Neuroscience

Round table

16:00 – 17:00

Pitfalls in interpreting complex electrophysiological data

V. Nikulin (HSE)

Day4

30/10/22 Final remarks

Online

11:00 – 12:00

Final remarks and conclusion

Lecturers

Matteo Feurra

Leading Research Fellow, Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Simone Rossi

Professor, University of Siena

Vadim Nikulin

Leading Research Fellow, Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Evgeny Blagoveshchensky

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience

Ainur Ragimova

Research Fellow, Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Traian Popa

Senior Researcher, Lausanne University

Mikhail Lebedev

Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Bioelectric Interfaces

Giulia Galli

Associate Professor, Kingston University

Maria Nazarova

Research Fellow, Institute for Cognitive Neurosciences

Ksenia Panidi

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Oksana Zinchenko

Research Fellow, International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology

Susan Gordleeva

Senior Research Fellow, Nizhny Novgorod State University

Vladimir Djurdjevic

Research Fellow, Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Nikita Otstavnov

PhD student, Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Workshop instructors

Matteo Feurra

Leading Research Fellow, Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Evgeny Blagoveshchensky

Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience

Ainur Ragimova

Research Fellow, Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Milana Makarova

Research Assistant, Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Carlos Muriel Nieto Doval

Research Assistant, Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Dmitry Bredikhin

Research Assistant, Centre for Cognition & Decision Making

Andrei Faber

Research Assistant, Laboratory for the Neurobiological Foundations of Cognitive Development