Annual Meetings

14th Scientific Day of the MRI-INT Centre (20 October 2023)

“Neuroimaging beyond the cortex :
Basal ganglia, cerebellum, spinal cord”

Open to all !
Free and mandatory registration : https://14th-day-mri-int.sciencesconf.org/

Program :

• 9h : Welcome, presentation of the MRI-INT Center & introduction
• Spinal cord session
  • 09.15 : Virginie Callot (CRMBM-Aix-Marseille University) : “Ultra-High Field spinal cord MR imaging : opportunities … and challenges !”
  • 10.00 : Nawal Kinany (Geneva university – EPFL) : “Unravelling the functional architecture of the spinal cord using fMRI”
  • 10.30 : Raphaëlle Schlienger (LNC- Aix-Marseille University) : “Mapping human proprioceptive projections of upper limb muscles using spinal cord fMRI”
• 11.00 : Coffee break & Posters session
  
• Cerebellum session
  
  • 11.30 : Anila D’Mello (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center & University of Texas at Dallas) : “The cerebellum in cognition, development and disorders”
• 12.15 : Lunch break & Posters session
  
  • 14.15 : Wietske Van Der Zwaag (Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging) : “High-field & high-resolution imaging of the anatomy and motor function of the cerebellum”
• Basal ganglia session
  • 15.00 : Sonja Kotz (Basic and Applied NeuroDynamics Laboratory, Maastricht University) : “Measuring uncertainty and expectation in basal ganglia circuits using high-field fMRI”
  • 15.45 : Bénédicte Ballanger (Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon) : “Subcortical dysfunctions in Parkinson’s disease: beyond the basal ganglia and dopamine, the question of the locus coeruleus and noradrenaline”
  • 16.15 : Damiano Terenzi (INT- Aix-Marseille University) : “The influence of the presence of a peer on inhibition control in cocaine dependence and its neurobiological substrate”
• 16.45 : Cocktail & Posters session

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13th Scientific Day of the MRI-INT Centre (14 October 2022)

“MRI Neuroimaging of Brain Disorders”

Open to all !
Free and mandatory registration : https://13th-asday-mri-int.sciencesconf.org/

Program :

• 9h : Welcome
• 9h15 : Introduction of the MRI Centre
• Morning session: Language & its pathologies
  •  9h30 – 10h30 : Keynote : Kate Watkins (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
    “Neural correlates of developmental disorders of speech and language”
  • 10h30 – 11h : Coffee break & Posters session
  • 11h – 12h : Projects carried out at the MRI Centre
    • Eddy Cavalli : “Compensatory re-organization of the reading network in adult with dyslexia”
      
    • Lauriane Veron-Delor, Jérémy Danna & Serge Pinto : “Motor network of writing and dysgraphia in Parkinson’s disease”
      
• 12h – 14h : Lunch break & Posters session
• Afternoon session: Sensory-motor & its pathologies
  • 14h – 15h : Keynote : Tamar Makin (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)
    “Brain plasticity for alternative hand control : From phantoms to extra robotic fingers”
  • 15h – 16h30 : Projects carried out at the MRI Centre
    • Raphaëlle Schlienger & Anne Kavounoudias : “Perception of the body & deafferentation : spinal cord and brain MRI approaches”
    • Manon Chateau & Jozina De Graaf : “Sensory-motor loop underlying phantom hand movements in transhumeral amputees”
    • Thomas Brochier : “Argon neuroprotection in a non-human primate model of transient cerebral ischemia”
• 16h30 : Cocktail & Posters session

12th annual of centre IRM-INT meeting (21st November 2019)

“Multivariate analyses of cerebral sensory representations”

Informations : https://mri-int12.sciencesconf.org/

Program :

• Extracting Universal Representations of Cognition from fMRI mega-analyses (Bertrand Thirion, Parietal, Neurospin, Saclay, France)  Download the pdf (12 Mo)
• Inter-subject pattern analysis: a powerful scheme for group-level MVPA (Sylvain Takerkart, INT, Marseille) Link to the slides
• Idiosyncratic neural representations in task-relevant brain areas in autism (Felipe Fernandes Pegado, LPC, Marseille)  Download the pdf (2 Mo)
• Are deep neural network latent spaces a good model for human brain representations? (Leila Reddy, CERCO, Toulouse) Download the pdf (2 Mo)
• Characterizing information processing in human and animal brains through analyses of representational geometry (Hans Op de Beeck, LBP, KU Leuven, Belgique)  Download the pdf (3,5 Mo)
• How is multisensory motion encoded in the brain ? (Jeanne Caron, LNSC, Marseille) Download the pdf (5 Mo)
• Modulation of brain activity during social and object-related action observation in adolescents and adults (Mathieu Lesourd, LNC, Marseille)  Download the pdf (3 Mo)
• RSA analysis of neuroimaging and electrophysiology data: strengths, outstanding issues and potential (Bruno Giordano, INT, Marseille)  Download the pdf (8 Mo)