2018 PROGRAM

May 21st (Monday) - Opening

5:00 - 5:20          Welcome Address (Carolina Center for Neurostimulation)     Dr. David Rubinow (UNC at Chapel Hill)
5:20 - 5:30          Welcome Message     Dr. Kaspar Schindler (University Clinic of Neurology - Inselspital)
5:30 - 6:30          Public Lecture: Speaking the Language of the Brain     Dr. Flavio Frohlich (UNC at Chapel Hill)
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May 22nd (Tuesday) - Day 1

8:00 - 9:00         Registration
9:00 - 10:00      Future of Brain Stimulation     Dr. Sarah Lisanby (NIH)
10:00 - 10:15   Coffee Break ☕

Session 1 - Treatment of Disorders
10:15 - 10:55    Saving Adam from the Apple: RTMS as a tool to decrease cue-reactivity     
​                                   Dr. Colleen Hanlon (Medical University of South Carolina)
10:55 - 11:35    Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and the Pain Experience: Harnessing the Veriability
                                   Dr. Bernadette Fitzgibbon (Monash University)
11:35 - 12:15  TMS: A Promising Tool for Translating Pathophysiology to Novel Interventions in Autism Spectrum                                      Disorder     Dr. Lindsay Oberman (Uniformed Services University)
12:15 - 1:15       Lunch (Provided) 🍴

Session 2 - Treatment of Disorders and Neuroscience
1:15 - 1:55     Neuroplasticity and Neuromodulation: Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Perinatal Stroke     
                              Dr. Bernadette Gillick (University of Minnesota)
1:55 - 2:35     Multi-modal Neuroimaging guided Neuromodulation strategies for Mal de Debarquement Syndrome                                Dr. Yoon-Hee Cha (Laureate Institute for Brain Research)
2:35 - 3:15     Can Oscillatory Synchrony Help Guide TMS Treatment?   
                             Dr. Andrew Leuchter (University of California at Los Angeles)
3:15 - 3:30     Coffee Break ☕

​Session 3 - Target Engagement
3:30 - 4:10     Targeting Network Dynamics in Time and Space     Dr. Emiliano Santarnecchi (Harvard Medical School)
4:10 - 4:50     Targeting Brain Oscillations with tACS: Models, Simulations, and Experiments   
                              Dr. Christoph Herrmann (University of Oldenburg)
4:50 - 5:30     Models & Devices for More Selective TMS     Dr. Angel Peterchev (Duke University)
5:30 - 6:10     Mechanisms of Transcranial Electrical Stimulation: Insights from Human Intracranial Recordings
                              Dr. Anli Liu (New York University Langone Health)
6:10 -                 Poster Session & Dinner 🍴
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May 23rd (Wednesday) - Day 2

8:00 - 9:00         Registration
9:00 - 10:00       Future of Neurology: Network Dynamics     Dr. Kaspar Schindler (University Clinic of Neurology - Inselspital)
​10:00 - 10:15    Coffee Break ☕

Session 4 - Convergent Neuroscience of Brain Stimulation
10:15 - 10:55  What Models Do We Need for Non-invasive Brain stimulation?   
​                                 Dr. Sven Bestmann (University College London)
10:55 - 11:35   Towards Causality: Using Non-Invasive Stimulation and Neuroimaging to Understand Human
​                                 Motor Learning    Dr. Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford)
11:35 - 12:15    Understanding transcranial photobiomodulation by 1064-nm laser    
​                                  Dr. Hanli Liu (University of Texas at Arlington)
12:15 - 1:15        Lunch (Provided) 🍴
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​Session 5 - Neurophysiology of Brain Stimulation
1:15 - 1:55         Electrophysiological Neuromarkers of Treatment Response in Major Depressive Disorder    
​                                  Dr. Faranak Farzan (Simon Fraser University)
1:55 - 2:35         Does tDCS work?    Dr. Marom Bikson (City University of New York)
2:35 - 2:50         Coffee Break ☕
2:50 - 3:30         Targeting Cortical Oscillations with NTBS    Dr. Hartwig Siebner (Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre)
3:30 - 4:10         Imaging Mechanisms in TMS: Synthesis and Future Directions    Dr. Noah Philip (Brown University)
4:10 - 4:30          Awards & Farewell