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10 April
8:30 - 18:30 1st Portuguese Conference on Brain Stimulation (PCBS) AUDITORIUM
18:30 European Society for Brain Stimulation (ESBS) General Assembly AUDITORIUM
20:00 1st PCBS & 6th Euopean Conference on Brain Stimulation (ECBS) Faculty Dinner DARWIN’S CAFÉ RESTAURANT
11 April
8:00 Registration
8:30 Welcome Session AUDITORIUM
Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, PT & Chris Baeken, BE
9.00 Keynote Lecture AUDITORIUM
Identifying brain circuit targets for modulating psychiatric symptoms
Michael D. Fox, US
10:00 Coffee-break
10:30 Symposium I AUDITORIUM
Biomarkers redefining rTMS treatment in depression: Heart-brain coupling, fMRI-connectivity validation and EEG guided TMS frequency selection
Chairs: Nikita van der Vinne, NL & Martijn Arns, NL
Heart-brain coupling TMS: a method to define frontal excitability thresholds and feasibility for future studies
Lauren Zwienenberg, NL
TMS-induced heart-brain-coupling: Probing prefrontal-sgACC connectivity with fMRI Guidance
Eva Dijkstra, US
Does 18Hz deep TMS benefit a different subgroup of depressed patients relative to 10Hz rTMS? The role of the individual alpha frequency
Helena T. S. Voetterl, NL
11:30 Round Table AUDITORIUM
EU Regulation of non-invasive Brain Stimulation medical devices
Moderator: Walter Paulus, DE
Guests:
Raquel Alves, PT - Rep. Portuguese Regulatory Body (INFARMED)
Gabriele Calligaro, EU - Rep. European Commission
Andrea Antal, DE - Researchers perspective
Giordano D’Urso, IT - Clinicians perspective
Klaus Schellhorn, DE - Industry perspective
Joana Saraiva, PT - Patients perspective
Paula Martinho da Silva, PT - Ethics perspective
12:30 Lunch & Poster Session I EXHIBITION HALL
14:00 Keynote Lecture AUDITORIUM
What is well? Decoding Recovery Signals to Optimize DBS Treatment for Depression
Helen S. Mayberg, US
15:00 Free Communications Session I AUDITORIUM
Novel Techniques in Brain Stimulation
Chair: Nuno Pinto, PT
Exploring state-dependent variability in the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex response using chronometric TMS-fMRI
Sarah Grosshagauer, AT
Affecting EEG Synchronization in People With Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) by Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS): Cogmax Study
Branislava Ćurčić-Blake, NL
Recent Findings in Transcranial Temporal Interference Stimulation
Johannes Stalter, NL
Reducing Motor Evoked Potential Amplitude Variability Through Normalization
Francisco Faro Viana, PT
Individual Prediction of Optimal Treatment Allocation Between Electroconvulsive Therapy or Ketamine using the Personalised Advantage Index
Benjamin Wade, US
Closed-loop active sensing for nonlinear system identification in attractor dynamics disorders
Hyungju Jeon, PT
16:00 Symposium IV AUDITORIUM
Precision Neuromodulation: leveraging individual anatomy to optimize efficacy and safety
Chair: Joan A. Camprodon, US
Individualized TMS targeting of emotion regulation neurocircuitry in bipolar disorder: Behavioral and fMRI outcomes
Kristen Ellard, US
A prospective head-to-head trial of distinct symptom-specific TMS targets
Shan Siddiqi, US
Testing the variability and stability of individualized TMS treatment targets for PTSD Using Resting State Functional Connectivity
Sanne van Roij, US
Individualized network-guided accelerated TMS for suicidal thoughts and behaviors
Joan Camprodon, US
17:00 Coffee-break
17:30 Symposium VI AUDITORIUM
High-precision individualized network mapping and targeting for personalized Brain Stimulation
Chair: Florian Müller-Dahlhaus, DE & Til Ole Bergmann, DE
Optimized Targeting and Dosing of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation based on Electrical Field Simulations in the Study of Cognition
Gesa Hartwigsen, DE
Spatiotemporal Determinants of Target Engagement in Language Mapping: Insights from Chronometric Interleaved TMS-fMRI
Maria Vasileiadi, AT
The Role of the Structural Brain Connectome Organization in the Personalization of TMS Treatment in Affective Disorders
Jonathan Repple, DE
Functional Connectivity and Heart Rate Measurements as Precision Components for Evaluation and Treatment of Major Depression with Accelerated iTBS
Roberto Goya-Maldonado, DE
20:00 Conference Dinner
12 April
8:30 Registration
9.00 Keynote Lecture AUDITORIUM
Can Neurotwins be used to design optimal Neurocircuit Therapy for patients?
Ana Maiques, ES
10:00 Coffee-break
10:30 Symposium VIII AUDITORIUM
Understanding and harnessing TMS effects: where, when and how
Chair: Martin Tik, AT
Targets for TMS with Specific Connectivity Patterns Linked to Higher Treatment Success
Robin Cash, AU
TMS Network Mapping to Disentangle Responders and Non-Responders to Accelerated iTBS
Debby Klooster, BE
Interleaved TMS-fMRI to Explore a Multilayered Framework of Stimulation Network Modulators
Martin Tik, AT
Exploring the Relationship between rTMS Response and Inhibitory System in Depression
Elisa Kallioniemi, US
11:30 Symposium X AUDITORIUM
Accelerated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to treat Depression: the future lies ahead
Chairs: Leo Chen, AU & Alexander McGirr, CA
Accelerated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Treat Depression: A Perspective on the Past, Present and Future
Leo Chen, AU
Stepped care Accelerated iTBS in treatment resistant major depression
De Witte Sara, BE
A neurophysiological characterization of NMDA receptor agonism and accelerated intermittent theta-burst stimulation
Jaeden Cole, CA
On the generalizability of accelerated neuromodulation regimens for therapeutic purposes
Jonathan Downar, CA
12:30 Lunch and Poster Session II EXHIBITION HALL
14:00 Keynote Lecture AUDITORIUM
Personalization of brain stimulation applications for psychiatric disorders: the promise and challenges.
Paul Fitzgerald, AU
15:00 Free Communications Session III AUDITORIUM
History and future of Therapeutic Neuromodulation
Chair: Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, PT
First International Conference on Psychosurgery - 1948, Lisbon, Portugal
Leonor Correia Guedes, PT
Efficacy of deep repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation with H7-coil on negative symptoms of schizophrenia: A randomized sham-controlled trial
Katarina Matić, HR
TMS personalization via functional connectivity and E-field based optimization and TMS-fMRI for proof of target engagement
Maximilian Lueckel, DE
Auditory mismatch negativity and dorsomedial prefrontal intermittent theta-burst stimulation in major depressive disorder
Robert Bodén, SE
E-Field models characterize the topographic distribution and dosing of cerebellar TMS: implications for treatment planning and experimental design
Asif Jamil, US
GENET - A Novel International Research Collaboration for the Standardized Collection and Sharing of ECT Treatment Data and Associated Biosignals - Implementation, Application, and Findings
Maximilian Kiebs, DE
16:00 Symposium XII AUDITORIUM
Charting pathways through Response Variability: investigating the impacts of network effects, distinct settings, and protocols within tDCS, FUS, and TMS for Precision Neuromodulation
Chairs: Ulrike Vogelmann, DE
Beyond Depression: Prefrontal HF-rTMS in Therapeutic Neuromodulation - A Matter of Target Region or Target Symptom?
Frank Padberg, DE
TDCS in Different Settings: Postulated Clinical Outcome and Strategies for Possible Increase of Efficacy
Ulrike Vogelmann, DE
Transcranial Focused Ultrasound: Promises and Challenges Revealed by Motor Cortex Study Insights
Daniel Keeser, DE
Neuromodulation techniques as early interventions in affective disorders: Theta Burst Stimulation applied in patients with non-treatment-resistant depression
Julia Becker-Sadzio, DE
17:00 Coffee-break
17:30 Award Ceremony AUDITORIUM
European Career Achievement on non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Award
18:00 Plenary Lecture AUDITORIUM
Translational Stimulation Science: to which extent can basic human neurophysiology contribute to increasing efficacy and reducing variability in clinical studies?
Walter Paulus, DE
19:00 Closing Session AUDITORIUM
Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, PT & Chris Baeken, BE
8:00 Registration
8:30 Welcome Session AUDITORIUM
Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, PT & Chris Baeken, BE
9.00 Keynote Lecture AUDITORIUM
Identifying brain circuit targets for modulating psychiatric symptoms.
Michael D. Fox, US
9:30 Coffee-break
10:30 Symposium II SEMINAR ROOM
The combination of tDCS/tACS with cognitive training in older adults: An individual difference perspective …………………………………………………………..
Chairs: Andrea Antal, DE & Sara Assecondi, IT
Improving cognitive functions in older adults using theta gamma tACS
Lukas Diedrich, DE
The contribution of individual differences to the effectiveness of combining task repetition with tDCS
Sara Assecondi, IT
Age and general cognitive level as modulators of tDCS effects on memory enhancement
Shachar Ben-Izhak, IL
11:30 Symposium III SEMINAR ROOM
Optimizing brain stimulation therapies: unraveling prefrontal cortex dynamics in stress, phobia, and addiction
Chairs: Stefanie De Smet, BE & Isabell Int-Veen, DE
Prefrontal functioning in the stress-rumination link
Isabell Int-Veen, DE
Intermittent theta burst stimulation over the left prefrontal cortex for exposure therapy in acrophobia: there is a need for individualized TMS localization
Martin J. Herrmann, DE (Represented by Lisa Cybinski, DE)
Neurobiological correlates of the active addiction memory (cue-reactivity) and extinction processes as potential indicators for the application of noninvasive-brain stimulation techniques in the treatment of substance use disorders
Agnes Kroczek, DE
Simultaneous fNIRS and TMS to investigate causal connectivity application for psychiatric disorders
Branislava Ćurčić-Blake, NL
14:00 Keynote Lecture AUDITORIUM
What is well? Decoding Recovery Signals to Optimize DBS Treatment for Depression
Helen S. Mayberg, US
15:00 Free Communications Session II SEMINAR ROOM
tDCS Applications in Neuropsychiatry
Chair: Ana Ganho Ávila, PT
Stress priming transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) enhances updating of emotional content in working memory
Stefanie De Smet, BE
Improving impulsivity, emotion dysregulation and cognitive functioning with prefrontal tDCS in borderline personality disorder
Jacopo Lisoni, IT
The High Density Theta Oscillatory tDCS over Parietal Cortex for Targeted Memory Enhancement
Milica Manojlović, RS
tDCS promotes myelin repair and plasticity in the mouse motor cortex
Marco Cambiaghi, IT
Exploring the Impact of tDCS on the Neural Dynamics of Impulsivity in Pediatrics: an ADHD Study
Teresa Sousa, PT
The Effects of tDCS on Functional Connectivity in Children with ADHD
Joana Crisóstomo, PT
16:00 Symposium V SEMINAR ROOM
tDCS in the continuum of psychosis :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Chair: Jerome Brunelin, FR & Marine Mondino, FR
tDCS in the healthy brain to study attention deficits in schizophrenia
Marco Andre Hirnstein, NO
tDCS as a protective strategy against hyperreactivity to stress in people at risk of schizophrenia
Ondine Adam, FR
Combination of cognitive training and tDCS to improve cognition in patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia
Giordano d'Urso, IT
Bilateral bipolar unbalanced frontal tDCS to reduce symptoms and improve cognition in schizophrenia
Jacopo Lisoni, IT
17:30 Symposium VII SEMINAR ROOM
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: from dysfunctional networks to brain stimulation
Chair: Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, PT
Functional Brain Circuits Of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder And Its Subtypes
Joana Andrade, PT
Secondary Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: From Lesions to Networks
Gonçalo Cotovio, PT
Past, Present And Future Of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation In Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Tracy Barbour, US
8:30 Registration
9.00 Keynote Lecture AUDITORIUM
Can Neurotwins Be Used To Design Optimal Neurocircuit Therapy For Patients?
Ana Maiques, ES
9:30 Coffee-break
10:30 Symposium IX SEMINAR ROOM
Stimulation of the social and affective cerebellum ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Chair: Frank Van Overwalle, BE
TMS and tDCS improve sequencing and prediction of actions required for social mentalizing
Frank Van Overwalle, BE
The effect of cerebellar stimulation on social sequences: a tDCS-fMRI pilot study
Beatriz Catoira, BE
Interfering with the posterior cerebellum via TMS affects the comprehension of others’ emotional states
Andrea Ciricugno, IT
Targeting the posterior cerebellum in schizophrenia: a tDCS study
Raquel Guiomar, PT
11:30 Symposium XI SEMINAR ROOM
Individualized Brain Stimulation for treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adolescents
Chair: Michael Siniatchkin, DE
Safety and neuropsychological effects of non-invasive brain stimulation in children and adolescents
Vera Moliadze, DE
A modelling pipeline for non-invasive brain stimulation of the developing brain
Axel Thielscher, DK
Prediction of stimulation effects in children and adolescents
Aureli Soria-Frisch, ES
Individualized home-based transcranial direct current stimulation for adolescents with ADHD: feasibility and clinical efficacy
Michael Siniatchkin, DE
12:00 Lunch and Poster Session II EXHIBITION HALL
14:00 Keynote Lecture AUDITORIUM
Personalization of brain stimulation applications for psychiatric disorders: the promise and challenges.
Paul Fitzgerald, AU
15:00 Free Communications Session IV SEMINAR ROOM
Therapeutic Neuromodulation across the lifespan
Chair: Sandra Carvalho, PT
Brain Stimulation for Perinatal Mental Disorder: Where We Are and Where We're Going - A Narrative Review
Cátia Pinheiro Ramos, PT
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) as an adjuvant to literacy skills trainings in developmental dyslexia
Katharina Rufener, DE
Deep Brain Stimulation in refractory Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: the Coimbra sample
Cândida Coelho, PT
Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Cocaine Addiction: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
Eugenio Rossi, IT
Efficacy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Bipolar Depression: finding the most effective protocol and predictors of response
Fabiana Ventura, PT
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: an effective treatment for resistant depressive episodes in the elderly
Ghina Harika Germaneau, FR
16:00 Symposium XIII SEMINAR ROOM
New perspectives in NIBS techniques to increase personalisation and precision - A showcase of the TWINNIBS Horizon Project
Chair: Saša R. Filipović, RS
Targeting The Pallidum by Rotating Field Stimulation
Zahra Soltaninejad, DE
Site-Specific Immediate (Very-Short-Latency) Transcranial Evoked Potentials Elicited by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of Primary Motor Cortex
Mikkel Malling Beck, DK
Personalised Theta-Modulated Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Targeting Associative Memory: A Cross-Modal Integration of EEG And Behavioural Indicators
Dunja Paunović, RS