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Advanced course in qEEG and Neurofeedback
The success of the last three year's advanced qEEG course in London calls for an encore. Learning Recovery is pleased to announce their 4th annual spring workshop with Juri Kropotov, Director of Lab., Institute of the Human Brain, St. Petersburg, and Professor, Institute of Psychology, Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Trondheim.
 
Prof. Kropotov will present developments in his laboratories work from a research and a clinical perspective. The focus will remain on application of EEG spectral analysis, event-related potentials and event-related de/synchronization for assessment of brain function and development of individually determined protocols for neurotherapy.
 

24th to 26th April 2008

in LONDON

 
Plus a practical day recoding EEG's / ERP's on the 27th

 

Application of EEG spectral analysis, event-related potentials and event-related desynchronization for assessment of brain functions and for constructing individually tailored protocols of neurotherapy with the Mitsar/WinEEG
(neurofeedback, transcranial direct current stimulation and other techniques).
 

The cost for 24th to 26th will be: €450 or £300
(or €150 /£100 a day)

 
 

PRESENTERS

Professor Juri Kropotov

The courses will cover

Visual inspection of EEG

Spectral analysis of EEG

Cognitive event related potentials

Cognitive event related de/synchronization.

Normative data bases.

Neurofeedback as a learning procedure

Assessments and protocols for ADHD.

Trancranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Neurotherapy with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

Practical day recoding EEG's / ERP's
 
Optional extra or stand alone day on the 27th. The cost will be €67/£50 for the day

Run by Tony Steffert
Introductory Mitsar/WinEEG + capping.
1. A review of the 10/20 system.
2. Capping up with the ECI electrode cap.
3. Checking impedances.
4. Recording of EEG and ERP's with the Mitsar/WinEEG.
This will be a practical day of applying electrode caps and recoding EEG's / ERP's on the Mitsar and everyone will get a chance to apply the cap and record an EEG.

Visual inspection of EEG.
1. How to record, store and visualize EEG.
2. Amplifies and temporal filters. Impedance measurement. Temporal resolution of EEG.
3. Placement of electrodes. Spatial resolution of EEG.
4. Montages. Local average reference as a tool for localizing effects.
5. Artifacts and methods of their correction and elimination. Analysis of Independent Components (ICA).
6. Normal rhythms in EEG. Rhythms as indicators of modulatory processes in the brain.
7. Alpha rhythms. Electrophysiology and neuronal circuits.
8. Beta rhythms. Electrophysiology and neuronal circuits.
9. Frontal midline theta and parietal theta. Electrophysiology and neuronal circuits.
10. Sleep spindles, K-complexes and other temporal patterns in EEG during sleep.
11. Pathological rhythms in EEG.
12. Intermittent rhythmic delta activity in brain trauma and tumors.
13. Slow 3 Hz activity in epilepsy.
14. Pathological temporal patterns in epilepsy.
15. Origin of spikes. Electrophysiology of spike and spike wave complexes.
16. Methods of automatic spike detection.
17. Methods of spike localization in the brain. Inverse problem. LORETA. Dipole approximation.

Spectral analysis of EEG.
1. Spectrograms as a measure of EEG rhythmicity.
2. How to read a single spectrogram. Absolute power and amplitude. Relative values.
3. Converting multi channel spectrograms in 2D maps. Mapping normal rhythms. Effect of montages.
4. Distributions of spectral characteristics. Normalization techniques.
5. Normative data bases. Z-scores as indicator of deviations from a normative data.
6. ICA method for spectrograms.
7. LORETA images of spectrograms.
8. Bi-spectrums.
9. Role of bi-spectrums in assessing the state of anesthesia.
10. Coherence as a measure of connectivity between cortical areas.
11. How to read coherence curves. Different types of representation.
12. Two compartment model of Thatcher.
13. Comodulation.

Cognitive event related potentials.
1. ERPs as a measure of stages of information processing.
2. How to read a single ERP. Positive and negative peaks and their relationships to excitatory and inhibitory post synaptic potentials.
3. LORETA images of components.
4. ICA for ERPs.
5. Behavioral tasks for assessment sensory processing. MMN paradigm.

6. Mismatch negativity as a reflection of automatic comparison operation in auditory modality.

7. Standardizing procedure.

8. Behavioral tasks for assessment engagement operations. Odd Ball paradigm.
9. P3b as a reflection of working memory updating.
10. Standardizing procedure.
11. Contingent negative variation as an index of preparatory set.
12. Two stimuli tasks. The issue of time constant of EEG recording. DC recordings.
13. Behavioral tasks for assessment executive functions. GO/NOGO paradigm.
14. P3 NOGO as a measure of action monitoring.
15. P2/N2 NOGO as a measure of attention dependant comparison operation.

Cognitive event related de/synchronization.
1. ERDs as a measure of dynamics of EEG oscillations in response to sensory stimuli and moto actions.
2. How to read a single ERD. Two waves of representation: wavelet analysis and ERD\S time representation.
3. Mapping ERDs.
4. Behavioral tasks for assessment motor related desynchronization. Finger movements.
5. Suppression of sensory motor rhythm during movement.
6. Post movement beta synchronization.
7. Pre-movement gamma synchronization.
8. ERDs in GONOGO task.
9. Frontal beta synchronization as measure of attention load.
10. Frontal theta synchronization as measure of attention.
11. Sensory motor alpha and beta suppression in response to motor preparation and motor execution.

Normative data bases.
1. History.
2. Normal distribution and normalization techniques.
3. Z-statistics as a measure of deviation from normality.
4. Inclusion and exclusion criteria.
5. Review of current data bases.
6. Data-base for QEEG, ERP/ERDs.
7. LORETA data bases.

Neurofeedback as a learning procedure.
1. Pavlovian and classical conditioning.
2. Skinner and operant conditioning.
3. Conditioning and other types of memory systems.
4. Neurofeedback parameter
5. Placement of electrodes.
6. Alpha neurofeedback and relaxation techniques. Relation to eastern meditation methods.
7. Beta neurofeedback.
8. Theta protocols.
9. Synchronization protocols.
10. Protocols of alpha asymmetry.
11. Training curve in a single session.
12. Learning curve during a number of sessions.

Assessments and protocols for ADHD.
1. ADHD as an executive dysfunction.
2. Psychology of ADHD. Continuous performance tasks. TOVA, IVA, Stop-tasks, GO/NOGO tasks. Attention, impulsivity/heperactivity, and combined subtypes.
3. PET and MRI studies.
4. Dopaminergic hypotheses. Psychostimulant treatment.
5. Spectral analysis.
6. Excess of central theta subtype.
7. Excess of frontal midline theta subtype.
8. Excess of frontal beta subtype.
9. Coherence analysis.
10. ERPs analysis.
11. ERP based subtypes.
12. Neurofeedback protocols.

Trancranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
1. History.
2. Electrophysiology of polarization induced by direct current.
3. Anodal and cathodal tDCS - two ways of changing the excitability of the cortex.
4. EEG and ERP correlates of tDCS effects.
5. PET and MRI correlates of tDCS effects.
6. Applications for ADHD, dyslexia, mental retardation and stroke.
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