McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
3801 University Street H3A 2B4 Montreal, QC, Canada

How much data is enough data? We publish today a new study that establishes the minimal recording duration required to capture the typical fluctuations of indiv...idual brain activity in the resting state. In summary, we confirm that short, high-quality recordings of two minutes or even 30 seconds (depending on targeted brain rhythms or brain regions) are sufficient to yield robust estimates of frequency-defined brain activity during resting-state. We hope our study helps guide future empirical designs in the field, particularly when recording times need to be minimized, e.g., to maximize the comfort of patient or special populations, while ensuring that spectral brain signal derivatives are robust and reliable. Good-looking blog summary Thanks for reading ! https://www.neurospeed-bailletlab.org//how-much-data-is-en

Our blog post concerning a recent paper in collaboration with avid MEG neurosurgeon, Prof Roy Dudley (Montreal Children's Hospital). https://www.neurospeed-bailletlab.org//demonstration-of-po

We're innovating again with a monthly series of open office consultations, starting next week: Wed, Dec 08, 11:30AM EDT. Come with your tough questions, analysi...s conundrums, ideas for new software features & we'll be glad to help out. DM for zoom link & please share!

New paper just out in NeuroImage, driven by @neurocoops based down under Monash University, also in collab. with @ranakh23 who started working on these colorful... questions when visiting our lab The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) McGill University from . Great to see this out! All the righteous color schemes mentioned available in @brainstorm2day ! https://www.sciencedirect.com//artic/pii/S1053811921009010

Our unit contributes to the evolution of standard of care of severe cases of pediatric epilepsy. New inter-institutional (@HopitalChildren @TheNeuro_MNI ), mul...timodal presurgical protocol designed by Dr. Roy Dudley incl. MEG & shows improved outcome. https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.6.PEDS218 See more

From the Baillet and Misic labs!

Major upgrade of our 2-D connectivity graphics released today! Faster, better, stronger. Fantastic @mcgillu engineering capstone project driven by the excellent Helen Lin & Yaqi Li! More information & full documentation: https://neuroimage.usc.edu/brai/Tutorials/ConnectivityGraph

Blog post concerning our latest paper on brain neurophysiological signal markers of chronic pain. https://www.neurospeed-bailletlab.org//pe15kvxugkxr0tuhwl8

The recording of Wednesday’s online demo in Spanish is now available on our YouTube Channel! ¡La grabación de la demostración en línea del miércoles ya está disponible en nuestro canal de YouTube! https://youtu.be/gTN3GwXLwmo

¡Regístrese ahora en nuestro primer taller gratuito para usuarios de Brainstorm en español! Es este miércoles que viene: https://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/WorkshopZoom2021spa

Next free Brainstorm online discussion/demo & user-clinic is tomorrow. Register now! https://mcgill.zoom.us//tZYkc-CrrzIiHtVHoqjxQw0B4wk9zG4aaf

Please share -- Just announced! Another free Brainstorm training workshop - this time in English, May 27, 2021. More info & registration https://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/WorkshopZoom2021

1,800 published studies have cited Brainstorm since 2011. Thank you, Folks!

Welcome onboard the Brainstorm team @r_cassani! https://www.neurospeed-bailletlab.org//dr-raymundo-cassani

Here’s to another healthy and productive year with @brainstorm2day, on behalf of the whole team! Special-occasion logo courtesy of @dimitrpantazis.

The Baillet lab has a new website! Please send them feedback.

Come work with us!

Just added to @brainstorm2day's distribution.: 13 infant brain templates (2 weeks to 2 y.o.) with registration to a variety of EEG nets. A fantastic and generous contribution from Christian O'Reilly (Thank you!). Paper: https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.20.162131v1

Try the new and amazing comprehensive search tool developed by Martin Cousineau for Brainstorm ! Place sophisticated queries across your Brainstorm database, save for later, paste the equivalent function call to include directly in your code!

Free Brainstorm Workshop / Q&A next week! Register now!

First of all, we hope everyone is safe and in good health. As often in life, looking at how to turn adversity into unexpected opportunities can have prolonged, positive impact and change how we used to to things before, for the better. In this weird but very necessary period of self-isolation and distancing, we suggest we regroup and cheer thanks to Zoom, our new common friend. We would hereby like to initiate the BIC Covid Social Club, a very virtual but very real opport...unity for all of us to: - casually chat and share about our experience with distancing and WFH - look together into the next few weeks and turn the time to our advantage - present talks that got cancelled - organize Zoom training events, how-to workshops - chat about projects, initiate collabs etc. Basically things we’re having a hard time to do under more normal circumstances because we simply don’t have (physical and temporal) space for that on the BIC premises. First fiasco-or-bravo edition is tomorrow Thur Mar 26 @ 5-6PM EST. DM for link.

Via La Presse : Des chercheurs du Neuro et de l’Hôpital de Montréal ont développé une application pour téléphones intelligents, disponible pour tous les neuroch...irurgiens et les neurologues qui souhaitent s’en servir. Le but est d’orienter les patients vers les meilleures options de traitement. Pour les chercheurs, il s’agit d’une façon concrète d’utiliser l’IA en pratique clinique. Les chercheurs insistent toutefois sur la nécessité de perfectionner les algorithmes à l’aide d’ensembles de données plus riches, dont des données moléculaires et d’imagerie cérébrale. https://www.lapresse.ca//01-5259891-tumeurs-au-cerveau-une Centre universitaire de santé McGill - McGill University Health Centre

More than 300 journal articles cited Brainstorm for their data analyses in 2019 - our largest number on record! https://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/Pub Also p...articularly proud when Brainstorm is cited in MSc and PhD theses! https://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/Pub See more

Very proud of our paper just published in Neuron, a heroic effort by Dr. Peter Donhauser. For two reasons: 1) We believe the approach sets a milestone for unpac...king brain responses to naturalistic stimuli - here natural speech 2) It's Sylvain's 100th peer-reviewed journal article! https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(19)30893-1

From the Baillet lab. Neurospeed - Baillet Lab: Neural Dynamics of Brain Systems

From the Baillet lab.

Brainstorm pool!

** for diffusion, please. Need to get this EEG, MEG and e-phys data collected, analyzed and all wrapped up in time for your first, your next, big poster, big pa...per? We are initiating a perpetual monthly series of informal meetups surrounding everything electrophysiology. Arts and hacks, from study designs to methods, code, apps, software and reporting. Come with your brains, questions, answers, laptop and good will and join the fun! First edition: Monday Sept 16 2:30-4:30pm, deGrandpré auditorium, MNI, @mcgillu. Open to everyone, for anyone. [More info and updates on Twitter: @sylvain_baillet.] Spread the word!

Very glad to join Science Advances as Associate Editor of their Human Psychology & Neuroscience section. The journal is published by the AAAS (non-profit) and ...is the largest and highest-ranked ([clear throat] IF 12.8 [clear throat]) multidisciplinary #openaccess journal in the landscape. I will be expecting to be working with many of you at this occasion! https://advances.sciencemag.org/

The @QBIN_RBIQ Pilot Projects program (https://t.co/RspJ4r1CTn ) is an ideal vehicle to run your first MEG-Infinity study ($8-12K CAD, unlimited scans). Be quick! Deadline to send a short application is July 15 Don’t miss this opportunity! https://t.co/sNdTi11SFV https://t.co/jW4yQPJZm7

While everyone is in Rome for #ohbm2019, somebody has to work in Montreal.

A free lecture and training event, where we surveyed research accomplishments in the study of neural dynamics of brain systems, achieved with the MEG system installed at McGill and the MNI.

We're changing the rules of the game with our MEG-infinity program. MEG-infinity enables high-powered neuroscience research, encourages the adoption of #openscience practices and maximizes the impact of research funds. MEG-infinity is for unlimited 24/7 access to #MEG scanning against the payment of a flat subscription fee. More info at: https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/core-facilities/meg#MEGinfinity

Announcing #MEG-Dayz June 04-05, 2019 @TheNeuro_MNI. Two days of MEG extravaganza with #neuroscientists sharing their MEG #SuccessStories and @davidpoeppel as keynote. Also live demos and hands-on #training on brain timeseries decoding! Free registration: https://tinyurl.com/y4kqgwpe