Webinars
Launched in 2020, the Brainbox Initiative Webinar Series is a free resource designed to stimulate the ongoing discussion and promotion of the fascinating work being carried out in the field of non-invasive brain stimulation and imaging research. Our webinars are hosted by a global range of guest speakers from academia and industry alike to provide a broad, accessible, and engaging series of talks and discussions that is open to everyone. We will continue to add further webinars to this series over time, so make sure to check back here and on our YouTube channel to ensure that you don’t miss any talks.
Role of the Medial Posterior Parietal Cortex in Spatial Attention
Attention is useful for our manual goal-oriented interactions and plays a key role in motor control. Neuroimaging and single cell recordings studies show that the medial posterior parietal cortex is activated during shifts of covert attention. Also, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) studies further support this involvement. Nevertheless, less clear is the role of this brain region in the interplay between spatial attention and motor control.
In this webinar, Professor Rossella Breveglieri will present results obtained with TMS that suggest that the medial posterior parietal cortex is neither involved in reach planning per se, nor in sustained covert attention in absence of a reach plan, but it is specifically involved in maintaining attention to reaching targets.
Speaker: Professor Rossella Breveglieri
Rossella Breveglieri obtained her PhD in Neurophysiology in 2004 at the University of Bologna (Italy). She was Assistant Professor from 2008 and then Associate Professor from 2014 in the same University. Rossella Breveglieri's research interests are about the brain mechanisms of visuomotor behavior, investigated through single cell recordings (from 2000 to 2018) and then through transcranial magnetic stimulation. She authored 45 peer-reviewed papers in international neuroscience journals and more than 90 conference abstracts. Her H index is 26.
Time:
December 12th, 2024
14:00 - 15:00 GMT
Threshold Tracking vs. Fixed Intensity TMS – Pros & Cons - Updated
This Brainbox Initiative webinar will provide an updated discussion on the comparison of fixed intensity and threshold tracking approaches to paired pulse TMS. This will include a comparison of practical and methodological pros and cons of both methods and an overview of recent studies illustrating their similarities and differences.
Speaker: Dr Róisín Mc Mackin
Dr Mc Mackin undertook her PhD in Clinical Medicine at Trinity College Dublin, using EEG and TMS to study cortical network malfunction in motor neurone disease. She subsequently undertook postdoctoral work expanding this work to see if EEG and TMS-based measures can be used as motor neurone disease biomarkers. Dr Mc Mackin is now an Assistant Professor in the Discipline of Physiology at Trinity College Dublin, where her team continue to research how we can sensitively, economically and non-invasively measure normal and impaired brain activity using electrophysiological methods. Róisín is particularly focused on undertaking research which is clinically translatable, which can lead to more accurate detection, prediction and treatment of diseases.
Time:
January 9th, 2025
14:00 - 15:00 GMT
Past webinars
You can find below our full range of past Brainbox Initiative Webinars, available for you to view on demand. We work closely will all of our speakers to ensure that we bring as much of this content to you as possible, and we will continue to keep this page updated as we bring more webinars into the range.
