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2 16 HBM GENEVA 22ND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING PROGRAM June 26-30, 2016 Palexpo Exhibition and Congress Centre | Geneva, Switzerland Simultaneous Multi-Slice Accelerate advanced neuro applications for clinical routine siemens.com/sms Simultaneous Multi-Slice is a paradigm shift in MRI Simulataneous Multi-Slice helps you to: acquisition – helping to drastically cut neuro DWI 1 scan times, and improving temporal resolution for ◾ reduce imaging time for diffusion MRI by up to 68% BOLD fMRI significantly. ◾ bring advanced DTI and BOLD into clinical routine ◾ push the limits in brain imaging research with 1 MAGNETOM Prisma, Head/Neck 64 acceleration factors up to 81 2 3654_MR_Ads_SMS_7,5x10_Zoll_DD.indd 1 24.03.16 09:45 WELCOME We would like to personally welcome each of you to the 22nd Annual Meeting TABLE OF CONTENTS of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping! The world of neuroimaging technology is more exciting today than ever before, and we’ll continue our Welcome Remarks . .3 tradition of bringing inspiration to you through the exceptional scientific sessions, General Information ..................6 poster presentations and networking forums that ensure you remain at the Registration, Exhibit Hours, Social Events, cutting edge. Speaker Ready Room, Hackathon Room, Evaluations, Mobile App, CME Credits, etc. Here is but a glimpse of what you can expect and what we hope to achieve over Daily Schedule ......................10 the next few days. Sunday, June 26: • Talairach Lecture presenter Daniel Wolpert, Univ. Cambridge UK, who Educational Courses Full Day:........10 will share his work on how humans learn to make skilled movements MR Diffusion Imaging: From the Basics covering probabilistic models of learning, the role and content in activating to Advanced Applications ............10 motor memories and the intimate interaction between decision making and Anatomy and Its Impact on Structural and Functional Imaging ..................11 sensorimotor control. Graph Theoretic Models of • Keynote lecturers including Anissa Abi-Dargham, Columbia Univ. USA, Brain Networks ....................12 Tim Behrens, Oxford Univ. UK, Susan Bookheimer, UCLA USA, Fernando Pattern Recognition for NeuroImaging.....13 Lopes Da Silva, Univ. Amsterdam Netherlands, David Poeppel, MPI Electromagnetical Neuroimaging .........14 Frankfurt Germany, William W. Seeley, UCSF USA and Nora D. Volkow, Educational Courses Half Day: ........16 NIDA at NIH USA, offering a diversity of topics discussing major themes in The Art and Pitfalls of fMRI neuroimaging science and applications. Preprocessing (AM) .................16 Tools to Parcellate the Brain and • 25 stimulating morning and afternoon symposia that will spur active Its Relation to Function (AM)..........16 audience discussion and participation. Introduction to Imaging Genetics (AM) ....17 • The popular LOC Symposium on Monday from 10:50 to 12:00 covering Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis (PM)........18 Disorders of Self-Awareness and Dissociative States. Practicalities for Reproducible Neuroimaging (PM) .................18 • A first-ever joint symposium with OHBM and the World Health Real-time fMRI: Fundamental Principles Organization on Thursday afternoon designed to raise awareness among for Clinical Applications (PM) .........19 the participants of OHBM to the need of current research projects that impact upon the staggering burden of disease of brain disorders. Opening Ceremony and Talairach Lecture ..................19 • Social and networking opportunities with our exhibitors, sponsors, mentors and peers including the Student/Post Doc SIG social on Monday evening, Monday, June 27.....................20 Scientific Program Wednesday’s legendary Club Night, and Tuesday and Thursday evening poster receptions. Additionally, local students have arranged a get-together Tuesday, June 28 ....................27 headquarters to meet and socialize each night of the meeting. Learn more Scientific Program about this at Brainmeout.com. Wednesday, June 29..................34 • An expansion of the Hackathon through the newly formed Open Science Scientific Program SIG with special programming offered throughout the meeting. Thursday, June 30 ...................41 Scientific Program We would like to thank each of you for attending the OHBM meeting and Merit Abstract Award Winners ........46 bringing your expertise to our gathering. You, as leaders in human brain mapping, have the vision, the knowledge, and the experience to help us pave our way into Travel Stipend Awardees . 46 the future. Throughout this meeting, we ask you to stay engaged and provide Acknowledgments ..................47 feedback that can continue to help us shape the future of OHBM. Exhibitor List .......................48 Sincerely, Council and Committees..............54 Financial Disclosures . 54 Poster and Exhibit Hall Floor Plans .....55 Karl Zilles Andreas Kleinschmidt Christoph Michel Chair, Council Chair, Program Committee Co-Chair, Local Organizing Committee 3 OHBM 2016 PROGRAM-AT-A-GLANCE Sunday, June 26 Monday, June 27 Tuesday, June 28 Educational Courses 8:00 – 9:15 8:00 – 9:15 Morning Symposia: Morning Symposia: Full Day Courses: 8:00 – 16:30 What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us? From Correlation to The added value of simultaneous multimodal MR Diffusion Imaging: From the Causation and Cognitive Ontologies recordings in neurosciences Basics to Advanced Applications Room ABC Room X Room ABC Creating a Social Experience in the Scanner: Social Neuroscience and Neuroimaging: Anatomy and Its Impact on Structural A Taxonomy of Interactive Paradigms Perspectives and Open questions and Functional Imaging Room VW Room K, Level 2 Room W New prospects for imaging the developing brain: Effects of Head Motion on Structural and Functional MRI Studies Graph Theoretic Models of Brain Networks opportunities and challenges Room VW Room V Room X Skeptical Connectivity: Time for Something Completely Different Pattern Recognition for NeuroImaging Clinical Language Mapping by Multimodal Neuromagnetic Room ABC Room X Methods: a Joint Symposium of ISACM and OHBM Room K, Level 2 15 minute break Electromagnetical Neuroimaging Room K, Level 2 15 minute break 9:30 – 10:15 Keynote Lecturer: Nora Volkow Morning Courses: 8:00 – 12:00 9:30 – 10:15 Mapping Addiction in the Human Brain The Art and Pitfalls of fMRI Preprocessing Keynote Lecturer: William Seeley Room ABC Room E, Level 2 Network-based Neurodegeneration Room ABC 15 minute break Tools to Parcellate the Brain and Its Relation to Function 10:30 – 11:45 Room F, Level 2 10 minute break Oral Sessions Introduction to Imaging Genetics 10:25 – 10:50 O-T1: Parcellation & Informatics O-T4: Neuropsychiatric Room G, Level 2 Best Paper Award Presentations Room K, Level 2 Disorders Room ABC O-T2: Learning and Memory Room V Afternoon Courses: 13:00 – 16:30 Room W O-T5: Acquisition and Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis 10:50 – 12:00 O-T3: Higher Cognitive Functions Pre-Processing Methods Room E, Level 2 LOC Symposium Room X Room ABC Disorders of Self-Awareness and Dissociative States Practicalities for Reproducible Neuroimaging Room ABC Room F, Level 2 11:45 – 12:45 Lunch Break 12:00 – 12:45 Lunch Break Real-time fMRI: Fundamental Principles 12:00 – 13:00 LABMAN Meeting for Clinical Applications 12:00 – 14:30 Secretariat 2 Room G, Level 2 GE Healthcare Lunch Symposium Room X 8:00 – 16:30 12:00 – 14:30 EGI Lunch Symposium Open Science Special Interest Group 12:45 – 14:45 Room X Hackathon Room: 1, 2, 3 Poster Session: Poster Numbers #1000-2412 Authors with even numbered posters Philips Lunch Symposium 17:30 – 19:30 will present their posters today. Room K Opening Ceremonies and Hall 1 Talairach Lecture 12:45 – 14:45 Room ABC 14:45 – 16:00 Poster Session: Poster Numbers #1000-2412 Afternoon Symposia: Authors with odd numbered posters Talairach Lecture: Daniel Wolpert, Imaging Brain Plasticity will present their posters today. FMedSci FRS Room ABC Hall 1 Probabilistic models of sensorimotor control and decision making The behavioral relevance of time-varying 14:45 – 16:00 functional connectivity Afternoon Symposia: 19:00 – 21:00 Room VW Revealing Fine-Scale Representations and Processing Welcome Reception with High-Resolution fMRI and MVPA Outside the Palexpo Entrance in the Garden Area, Ex vivo approaches for investigating the brain’s circuitry: Room ABC Level 1 The what, the how & the why Room X Early Developmental Studies of Autism Spectrum Disorder Room X 16:15 – 17:00 Keynote Lecture: David Poppel Modulating functional brain systems with New Directions in the Neurobiology of Language non-invasive brain stimulation Room ABC Room VW 15 minute break 15 minute break 17:15 – 18:30 16:15 – 17:00 Oral Sessions Keynote Lecture: Fernando Lopes da Silva Functional and causal relationships O-M1: Early Brain O-M3: Acquisition Methods based on EEG/MEG signals Development Room X Room ABC Room K, Level 2 O-M4: Perceptual O-M2: Neurodegenerative Representations Diseases Room ABC 17:00 – 18:30 Room VW Poster Reception: Poster Numbers #1000-2412 Hall 1 4 Wednesday, June 29 Thursday, June 30 8:00 – 9:15 8:00 – 9:15 Morning Symposia: Morning Symposia: Neuroimaging pain-related circuitries in the human brainstem with functional MRI From mapping to modulation: using neuroimaging to guide Room K, Level 2 brain stimulation treatment for addiction Room VW Neural Nets to Neural Nets: Deep Learning Approaches to Neuroimaging Room VW Executive Function and Brain Connectivity Room ABC Functional Connectivity or Causality in the Brain:
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