Dear All,
I am
pleased to announce that the next official SPM course covering
fMRI/MRI/VBM will take place in London:
Thursday 14th May to Saturday 16th
May 2015.
The course
is organised by the Methods Group at the Wellcome Trust Centre
for Neuroimaging (“the FIL”), where SPM is developed. The
three-day course will be divided into theoretical sessions
covering experimental design and statistical inference and
practical sessions in which SPM12 will be used to analyse
exemplar data sets. This course is suitable for both beginners
and more advanced users, with topics including image
pre-processing, the general linear model (GLM), voxel-based
morphometry (VBM) and Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM). The
course is held directly after the SPM for MEG/EEG course,
which will be 11th -13th May at the same
venue.
Registration
opens 9th March and places are strictly limited. If
you would like an email reminder when registration opens,
please add your email address here - https://spmcourses.typeform.com/to/W3VGTK
.
The programme
for the course is below.
Best,
Peter.
Peter
Zeidman, PhD
Methods
Group
Wellcome
Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
12 Queen
Square
London
WC1N 3BG
Programme (provisional):
|
Thursday 14th May |
|
|
08:45 – 09:15 |
Registration
and Coffee |
|
09:15 – 09:30 |
Introduction
to the Course |
|
09:30 – 10:00 |
Overview of
SPM |
|
10:00 – 10:30 |
Pre-processing
for fMRI – Theory |
|
10:30 – 11:00 |
Pre-processing
for fMRI – Demo |
|
Coffee |
|
|
11:30 – 12:00 |
The General
Linear Model |
|
12:00 – 12:45 |
Contrasts
and Classical Inference |
|
Lunch |
|
|
13:45 – 14:15 |
Group
Analysis |
|
14:15 – 15:00 |
Random Field
Theory & Alternatives |
|
Tea |
|
|
15:30 – 16:15 |
Segmentation
and VBM – Theory |
|
16:15 – 17:00 |
Segmentation
and VBM – Demo |
|
17:00 – 18:00 |
“Questions
and Answers” Clinic |
|
|
|
|
Friday 15th May |
|
|
09:30 – 10:15 |
Experimental
Design |
|
10:15 – 11:00 |
Event-related
fMRI – Theory |
|
Coffee |
|
|
11:30 – 12:15 |
Event-related
fMRI – Demo |
|
12:15 – 13:00 |
Bayesian
Inference |
|
Lunch |
|
|
14:00 – 15:00 |
Dynamic
Causal Modelling for fMRI |
|
Tea |
|
|
15:30 – 16:30 |
DCM for fMRI
– Advanced Topics |
|
16:30 – 17:15 |
DCM for fMRI
– Demo |
|
17:15 – 18:00 |
“Questions
and Answers” Clinic |
|
18:30 – |
Social
Event |
|
|
|
|
Saturday 16th May |
PRACTICAL
WORKSHOPS |
|
9:30 – 10:00 |
Introduction;
Allocation of Groups |
|
10:00 – 15:30 |
Parallel
session in small groups covering: fMRI analyses (several
groups depending on attendees’ level of knowledge),
Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM) and Dynamic causal
modelling (DCM). |
|
Coffee
|
|
|
16:00 – 17:00 |
Workshop
feedback presentations |