Previous FMRIB Seminars

Michaelmas 2011

7 Sept - Aapo Hyvärinen - Linear Non-Gaussian Acyclic Model (LiNGAM) for Causal Discovery


4 Oct - Claudine Gauthier (Montreal) - Neuroimaging of aging: links between cardiovascular health, cerebral hemodynamics and cognition


11 Oct - Kay Brodersen (Zurich) - Generative embedding and model-based classification 


18 Oct - Jack Gallant (Berkeley) - Representation of visual features, objects, actions and scenes in the human brain


1 Nov - Claudia Metzler-Baddeley (Cardiff) -Temporal association fibres and episodic memory in ageing and Mild Cognitive Impairment 


8 Nov - Klaus Wunderlich (FIL-UCL), Mapping multiple forms of value based decision making in the human brain


15 Nov - Rik Henson (MRC CBU, Cambridge) - A ragbag of methodological work on MEG: multimodal integration, ROI data extraction and implications for connectivity, eg DCM 


22 Nov - Natalie Voets (FMRIB, Oxford) - What resting fMRI can and cannot tell us about the epileptic brain 


29 Nov - Tom Carlson (University of Maryland) - Interactions between vision and proprioception reveal an extended sense of "me" 


6 Dec - Andrew Bell (Oxford) - Face and object processing in non-human primates 


13 Dec - Fraser Smith (University of Western Ontario) - The context of early sensory processing

Trinity 2011

28 April - Cameron Craddock (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX) - On MVPA in FMRI


24 May - Alireza Soltani (Caltech) - Compete and Learn: Synaptic Reverberation and Reward-dependent Plasticity as Basic Neural Mechanisms Underlying Decision Making and Attention


31 May - Joern Diedrichsen (UCL) - The neural representation of skilled action


7 June - Virginia Penhune (Concordia) - Parallel contributions of cerebellar, striatal and M1 mechanisms to motor sequence learning


14 June - Ben Harvey (Utrecht) - The relationship between cortical magnification factor and population receptive field size in human visual cortex: constancies in cortical architecture


12 July - Rob Welsh (University of Michigan) - Motor network changes and brain state stability in ALS 


19 July - Prof Suzanne Haber (University of Rochester) - Rules ventral prefrontal cortical axons use to reach their target: implications for DTI tractography and deep brain stimulation for psychiatric disease

Hilary 2011

25 Jan - Tom Okell (FMRIB, Oxford) - Assessment of Collateral Blood Flow in the Brain using Magnetic Resonance Imaging
8 Feb - Kamil Uludag (Max Planck Institue,Tubingen) - Understanding the physiological and physical basis of fMRI
14 Feb (MONDAY) - Catherine E Chang (Stanford, USA) - Noise and dynamics in fMRI functional connectivity 
15 Feb - Kim Graham (Cardiff University) - The role of the medial temporal lobes in human episodic memory: new insights and challenges
16 Feb (WEDNESDAY) - Russ Poldrack (University of Texas) - Towards a semantic infrastructure for cognitive neuroscience: The Cognitive Atlas Project
22 Feb - Rogier Mars (Dept of Experimental Psychology, Oxford) - Parcellating parietal cortex
1 Mar - Matthew Rushworth (Dept of Experimental Psychology, Oxford) - Combining imaging with interference techniques to look at interactions within neural circuits for behavioural inhibition
8 Mar - Andy Lee (Dept of Experimental Psychology, Oxford) - The role of the medial temporal lobe in visual discrimination: long-term memory, working memory or perception?
15 Mar - Laurence Hunt (FMRIB, Oxford) - Predicting temporal dynamics of human value-based choice from a cortical attractor network model
22 Mar - Rosalyn Moran (UCL) - combined seminar with OHBA (to be held at Psychiatry) - A Mathematical Microscope for the Observation of Neural System Transmitters
29 Mar -Steve Fleming (FIL, London) - Know thyself: metacognition in decision-making

Michaelmas 2010

7 Sep - Jonathan O'muircheartaigh (IoP, King's College London) - Structural and Cognitive Abnormalities in Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy
12 Oct - Ben Seymour (FIL, London) - A computational framework for pain neuroscience
18 Oct - Christian Beaulieu (Alberta, Canada) - White Matter Development Across the Ages – Healthy and Impact of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
19 Oct -Geert De Groof (University of Antwerp, Belgium) -In vivo MRI study of the seasonal and hormonal influence on neuroplasticity in songbirds
2 Nov - Anil Seth (University of Sussex) - Measuring consciousness: from behaviour to neurophysiology
9 Nov - Gael Varoquaux (Neurospin, France) - Progress on principled inter-subject comparison of brain functional connectivity
16 Nov - Petroc Sumner (Cardiff University) - The relationship between GABA and individual differences in functional inhibition
23 Nov - Wako Yoshida (FIL, London) - Computational and neural mechanisms of belief inference
30 Nov - Krish Singh (CUBRIC, Cardiff) - combined meeting with OHBA - MEG measures of cortical oscillations: Relationships with BOLD fMRI, behaviour and neurotransmitters
6 Dec - Daniel Margulies (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) - Mapping neuroanatomy with functional connectivity fMRI
7 Dec - Laura Parkes (University of Liverpool) - Functional imaging of plasticity in the primary somatosensory system

Trinity 2010

20 Apr - Matthias Koepp (UCL, London) - Thinking on your feet: imaging working memory in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
28 Apr - Bradley MacIntosh (Toronto) - Use of arterial spin labeling techniques to characterize brain perfusion and hemodynamics in stenotic atherosclerotic disease
11 May - Chantal Berna (FMRIB Centre, Oxford) - Having the blues and pain
18 May - Julien Besle (Nottingham University) - Somatotopy of finger tips : Event-related and Travelling-wave paradigms at 7 Tesla

25 May - Ivana Drobnjak (UCL, London) - Optimizing gradient waveforms for microstructure sensitivity in diffusion-weighted MR

14 June - Amir Amedi - Can we train the visual cortex to ‘see’ again after years of blindness?
15 June - Jason Lerch (Toronto) - The rapidly changing brain: of taxi driving mice and maze running men
20 July - Sonia Bishop (Dept Psychology, UC Berkeley) - Neurocognitive mechanisms associated with trait vulnerability to anxiety

Hilary 2010

19 Jan - Blaise Frederick (Harvard Medical School) - Integrated processing of simultaneously acquired fMRI and NIRS data -

5 Feb - Kamil Ugurbil (University of Minnesota) - Neuroimaging with ever increasing magnetic fields: from columns to whole brain function and morphology

9 Feb - Mark Stokes (St John's College, Oxford) - Top-down modulations in visual cortex: patterns of baseline activity underlying attention and visual imagery

16 Feb - Michael Nitsche (Georg August University, Gottingen, Germany) - Basic mechanisms and functional effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on the human motor cortex

22 Feb - Meike W Vernooij (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) - Cerebral microbleeds - Imaging, prevalence and risk factors in the general population. The Rotterdam Scan Study

24 Feb - Becky Inkster (Imperial College, London) - Building confidence in imaging genetics association studies: Wnt signaling, GSK3beta substrates and major depression

9 March - Xavier Golay (UCL) - ASL as a tool to better understand the BOLD fMRI signal

16 March - Vladimir Litvak (Institute Of Neurology, London) - Simultaneous magnetoencephalography and subthalamic local field potential recordings in Parkinson patients

26 March - Penny Gowland (University of Nottingham) - Quantitative MRI biomarkers at 7T 

30 March - Daniel Gallichan (Freiburg) - PatLoc: Bending the gradients and pushing the limits 

Michaelmas 2009

21 Sep - Yaniv Assaf (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) - Diffusion MRI of tissue microstructure -
25 Sep - Thomas Yeo (MIT, Cambridge) - Learning Task-Optimal Image Registration for Localizing Cytoarchitecture and Functions on the Cerebral Cortex -
12 Oct - Gerhard Jocham (Max Planck Institute, Cologne, Germany) - Fronto-striatal mechanisms in adaptive, goal-directed behavior -
19 Oct - FMRIB Themes Meeting - Marius de Groot (Analysis) + Lucy Matthews (Disease) + Shannon Kolind (Physics) -
26 Oct - Thor Bjarnason (University of Calgary, Canada) - Quantitative T2 MRI: T2 is more than just a shade of gray - (Shannon)
27 Oct (11am) - Virginia Penhune (Concordia University, Montreal)
2 Nov - Sebastian Brandner (Institute of Neurology, London) - Microstructure of the brain: From Macroscopy to ultrastructure -
9 Nov - FMRIB Themes Meeting - Lisa Nickerson (Analysis) + Roisin Ní Mhuircheartaigh (Pain) + Martin Turner (Pain) -
16 Nov - Roi Cohen Kadosh (Exp Psychology, Oxford) - Brain Stimulation to the Parietal and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortices to Dissociate Learning and Automaticity -
23 Nov - Marsha Quallo (UCL, London). Grey and White Matter Changes Associated With Tool-Use Learning in Macaque Monkeys -
25 Nov (WEDNESDAY) - Marty Sereno (Birkbeck/UCL, London) - Visual, Somatosensory Auditory and motor maps in the human brain -
30 Nov - Helen Jamison (Science Media Centre, London) - Science and the Media: Experience from the front line -
7 Dec - Kim Lindsey (McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School) - Air puffing, smoking, and nicotine – effects on the BOLD response to visual stimulation -
14 Dec - Nikos Evangelou (University of Nottingham) - Use of 7 Tesla MRI in Multiple Sclerosis -

Trinity Term 2009 (Apr - June)

11 May - Jeroen Hendrikse (UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands) - Go with the flow: perfusion territory MRI of brain feeding arteries in health and disease
18 May - Stephen Payne (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Oxford) - Haemoglobin oscillations and the effects of autoregulation in stroke 
1 June - Alex MacKay (UBC, Canada) - The nature of T2 relaxation in white matter: fundamentals and applications to cervical spondylotic myelopathy and dyslexia
3 June - Joshua Shimony (Washington University in St. Louis) - Structural and Functional Connectivity of the Human Thalamocortical System, with clinical applications
8 June - Ross Dunseath (University of Virginia) - New technologies for measuring EEG during fMRI: An introduction to f-EEG

6 July - Richard Edden (Cardiff Univerisity) - GABA and functional neuroimaging 
27 July - Joseph Galea (Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore) - Modulation of cerebellar excitability by polarity-specific non-invasive direct current stimulation

Hilary Term 2009

12 Jan - Benedetto De Martino (Caltech and FIL) - Context-dependent value computation
19 Jan - Hanneke den Ouden (FIL, London) - Prediction error dependent changes in brain connectivity during associative learning
26 Jan - Manus Donahue (FMRIB Centre)- Novel approaches to functional brain imaging using magnetic resonance imaging
9 Feb - Andrew Welchman (University of Birmingham) - Decoding the cortical representation of depth
23 Feb - Sean Deoni (Institute of Psychiatry, KCL London) - Investigating myelin in neurological and psychiatric disorders
2 Mar - Burkhard Pleger (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) - The Human Somatosensory System – Plasticity and Cognition
9 Mar - David Norris (FC Donders, Netherlands) - New Perspectives for Cognitive Neuroimaging with MRI
16 Mar - Marc Tittgemeyer (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) - Relating connectional architecture to brain function using diffusion imaging
23 Mar - Lawrence Wald (Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston) - Technologies for high field functional neuroimaging
30 Mar - Jeremy Hall (University of Edinburgh) - Genetic imaging and psychiatric disorders
6 Apr - Tali Sharot (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, London) - Generating Expectations of Pleasure and Pain

Michaelmas Term 2008

8 Sep - Agnes Floeel (Muenster, Germany) - Drivers of Brain Plasticity: New strategies in motor and language rehabilitation after stroke
22 Sep - Roberto Toro (Brain&Body Centre, Nottingham) - Variability and evolution of the human cerebral cortex: brain size and degree of folding
6 Oct - Floris de Lange (Neurospin, Paris) - Structural neuroplasticity induced by psychotherapy
8 Oct - Russ Poldrack (UCLA) - Inferring mental processes from neuroimaging data
20 Oct - Gary Baker (City University, London) - Axon diameters and myelin thickness along the white matter pathway from eye to brain
27 Oct - Suresh Muthukumaraswamy (CUBRIC, Cardiff) - Gamma oscillations in human visual cortex: Function, physiology and relationship to BOLD
3 Nov - Ulrike Bingel (FMRIB Centre, Oxford) - Imaging pain and cognition interactions
10 Nov - Klaas Enno Stephan (FIL, London) - Dynamic Causal Modelling and translational neuroimaging
17 Nov - Chris Summerfield (Experimental Psychology, Oxford) - An a priori model of biased perceptual choice
24 Nov -Siri Graff Leknes (University of Oslo, Norway) - Feeling pain, pleasure and relief: The role of subjective interpretation and emotion regulation
24 Nov (3pm) - Sebastien Ourselin (UCL, London) - Development of imaging biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease
28 Nov (FRIDAY) - Sarang S. Dalal (Inserm, Lyon, France) - Oscillatory modulations during attentive reading reconstructed with MEG and confirmed by simultaneous intracranial EEG
15 Dec - Dean Mobbs (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) - Close encounters of the fear kind 

Summer 2008

1 Jul - Amanda C. Pustilnik (Harvard Law School) - Law & Neuroscience: A Conversation on Current Developments
28 July - Tamar Makin (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) - Seeing with your hands: fMRI and TMS studies of human hand-centred visual space
4 Aug - Mikail Rubinov (UNSW, Sydney) - Symbiotic Relationship Between Brain Dynamics and Architectures

Trinity term 2008

14 Apr - Jorge Armony (Dept Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada) - The amygdala and emotional expressions: From perception to memory
28 Apr - Dick Passingham (Experimental Psychology, Oxford) - Why Neuroanatomy is important for FMRI
19 May - Markus Ploner (FMRIB Centre, Oxford) - MEG studies on the cortical representation of pain
23 May - Oury Monchi (University of Montreal, Canada) - The functional role of fronto-striatal interactions for cognition in healthy individuals and Parkinson’s disease
28 May - Rogier Mars (Experimental Psychology, Oxford) - Motor preparation under uncertainty in the human premotor cortex: Evidence from fMRI, TMS, and modeling
2 Jun - Jennifer Lau (Experimental Psychology, Oxford) - Fear acquisition and extinction as models of adolescent anxiety
9 Jun - Katja Wiech (FMRIB Centre, Oxford) - Something to do with the psychology of Pain

Hilary term 2008

21 Jan - Emily Holmes (Psychiatry Dpt, Oxford) - A Healthy Imagination? Mental Imagery and Emotion in Experimental Psychopathology
28 Jan - James Rowe (University of Cambridge) - Recent advances in the cognitive disorders of Parkinson's disease
6 Feb- Jerome Sanes (Brown University) - Human brain representations for movement and motor learning
11 Feb - Jennifer McNab (FMRIB Centre, Oxford) - High Resolution Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Tractography
18 Feb - Penny Lewis (School of Psychology, Liverpool) - Off-line consolidation of temporal information during sleep and wakefulness
20 Feb - Gordon Kindlmann (Harvard Medical School) - Anisotropy Crease Extraction by Ridge and Valley Analysis on Diffusion Tensor Fields
25 Feb - Steven Chance (Clinical Neurology & Neuropathology Dpts, Oxford) - Microanatomy in MRI – the next frontier?
28 Feb - Mary Stephenson (Nottingham) - In vivo Multi-Nuclear Spectroscopy at High and Ultra-High Field
3 March - Nick Yeung (Experimental Psychology, Oxford) - Noticing when things go wrong: Monitoring for conflicts and errors
10 March - Sabine Van Huffel (K.U. Leuven, Belgium) - Quantification and Classification of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Images Applied to Brain Cancer Diagnostics
17 March - Matthias Günther (University Hospital Mannheim) - Arterial Spin Labeling: basics and some applications
31 March - Nikolaus Weiskopf (FIL, London) - Optimized MRI for anatomical and functional brain imaging

Michaelmas Term 2007

8 Oct - Joeran Lepsien (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig,Germany) - Orienting Attention to Mental Representations
15 Oct -Ysbrand van der Werf (VUMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Neural imaging of cognition in relation to sleep and sleep disorders
17 Oct - Atle Bjornerud (Rikshospitalet, Oslo) - fMRI and perfusion imaging in patients with primary brain tumours
22 Oct - Denis Schluppeck (School of Psychology, Nottingham) - Mapping somatosensory cortex with functional MRI at 1mm isotropic resolution
29 Oct - Paul Fletcher (Cambridge) - Associations and Inferences: Human behaviour and brain responses in causal learning tasks
1 Nov - Andrew Maudsley (University of Miami) - Metabolic Mapping in Brain by Volumetric Proton MRSI
5 Nov - Claire Sergent (ICN/FIL, London) - Conscious/non-conscious visual processing
12 Nov - Virginia Newcombe - Using imaging to understand pathophysiology, tissue fate, and clinical outcome in TBI
19 Nov - Jacinta O'Shea (Dept Exp Psychology, Oxford) - Imaging causal interactions during sensorimotor processing
21 Nov - Frode Willoch (University of Oslo, Norway) - No brain – no pain: PET in studies of nociception
26 Nov - Joern Diedrichsen (Bangor) - How can we study motor learning using functional MRI?
27 Nov - Benedikt Poser (FC Donders Centre) - Ultra-high field imaging (7T)
3 Dec - Jill O'Reilly (FMRIB Centre, Oxford) - The neural basis of temporal processing
12 Dec - Klaus Scheffler (University of Basel) - Magnetization transfer effects in SSFP
17 Dec - Chris Chambers (FIL) - Probing the neural basis of attention through combined TMS and neuroimaging
19 Dec - Marcus Kaiser (Newcastle University) - Organization of Brain Connectivity: Spreading Dynamics and Recovery after Lesions

Summer Term 2007

28 Aug - David Van Essen (Washington University) - Structure and Function of the Primate Cerebral Cortex in Health and Disease
18 Sep - Jacob Blicher (Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark) - Changes in cortical and spinal excitability following hand training and robotic gait training
20 Sept - Polina Golland (CSAIL, MIT, US) - Functional Hierarchy: Representation and Modeling of Spatial Patterns of Activation in fMRI
24 Sept - Oliver Lyttelton (BIC, MNI, Montreal) - Group registration and variance-based clustering for surface analysis of cortical measurements

Trinity Term 2007

16 Apr - Krish Singh (CUBRIC, Cardiff) - Investigation of the relationship between the BOLD response and cortical oscillatory dynamics using MEG and fMRI
23 Apr - Bertrand Thirion (Inria, Neurospin, France) - Analysis of group fMRI datasets: beyond voxel-based techniques
30 Apr - Johannes Klein (FMRIB Centre, Oxford) - Functional and anatomical validation of diffusion tractography in the human brain
9 May - Julien Doyon (CRN, Montreal) - Contribution of the cortico-striatal and cortico-cerebellar systems to motor skill learning
14 May - Edouard Duchesnay - Neuroimaging and Psychiatry, Orsay, France - Classification applied to brain imaging
30 May - Pr. Ruediger Hilker (University of Frankfurt, Germany) - Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's disease: what do we know from functional brain imaging?
4 Jun - Pr. Eckart Altenmüller (IMMM, Hannover, Germany) - Musicians as a model for limbic driven neuroplasticity
25 Jun - Daniel Alexander (UCL, London) - Modelling, Fitting and Sampling in Diffusion MRI
5 Jul - Donald Robin (UTHCSA, Texas) - A multimodality Imaging Approach to Understanding Stroke-induced Apraxia of Speech and Its Treatment
10 Jul - Pr. Clifford Woolf (Harvard University) - Fishing for pain genes

Hilary Term 2007

15 Jan - Hartwig Siebner (Kiel, Germany) Combining transcranial cortex stimulation and functional neuroimaging to study motor reorganization
22 Jan - Etienne Koechlin (LNC, ENS ULM, France) - The prefrontal cortex and voluntary control of action
24 Jan - John Aston (ISS, Taipei, Taiwan) - Special Analysis Group Seminar on Wavelet Analysis
29 Jan - Ole Paulsen (NOG, Oxford) - Mechanisms underlying cortical gamma oscillations
5 Feb - David Brooks (Hammersmith Hospital, London) - Imaging inflammation in neurodegenerative disorders
8 Feb - Pr David Glahn (RIC, Texas) - Imaging-Genetic studies in Psychiatry
12 Feb - Clare Elwell (UCL, London) - Shedding light on the brain: Optical Methods for Monitoring Functional Activation
19 Feb - Gwenaelle Douaud (FMRIB Centre, Oxford) - Combining T1-weighted and diffusion-weighted images to investigate subcortical abnormalities in Huntington's disease
26 Feb - Harald Atmanspacher (IGPP, Freiburg, Germany) - Acategoriality and mental instability
5 Mar - Richard Sylvester (UCL, London) - Oculomotor influences on early visual processing in the human brain
12 Mar - Pierre Bellec (MNI, Montreal) - Parametric model estimation on a large fMRI database: application to realistic simulation
20 Mar - Pr Christian Keysers (University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands) - Mirror systems and social cognition

Michaelmas Term 2006

2 Oct - Tim Behrens (FMRIB Centre, Oxford) - Optimal decision making and the cingulate cortex
9 Oct - Mathias Pessiglione (FIL, London) - The human brain as a gold seeker
16 Oct - Karl Herholz (Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre, Manchester) - PET studies of the cholinergic system in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease
23 Oct - Colin Story, David Eastham (Isis Innovation, Oxford) - Technology transfer from the University of Oxford
30 Oct - Brian Patenaude (FMRIB Centre, Oxford) - Automated sub-cortical segmentation
6 Nov - Jean-Francois Mangin (SHFJ, Orsay, France) - A structural vision of brain mapping
13 Nov - Hugh Garavan (Thinclab, Dublin) - Prefrontal contributions to dynamic control
20 Nov - Jonathan Flint (WTCHG, Oxford) - Why imaging genetics is not so easy
27 Nov - Takuya Hayashi (National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Japan) - How can we know cortico-striatal connectivity in humans?: diffusion- and tracer-based tractography
4 Dec - Marco Catani (CNS, London) - Brain Hodology -
18 Dec - Julien Cohen-Adad (University of Montreal, Canada/Inserm, France) - Spinal cord imaging: some investigations