Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation brings its expertise in brain stimulation to Barcelona
Two medico-scientific workshops will be held in early June with collaboration from Guttmann Institute, which carries out research in this field, Starlab and "la Caixa".
By Biocat
The Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (CNBS), one of the most prestigious centers in the world in the study of the human brain and part of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, will give two scientific workshops in Barcelona from 3 to 5 June. This initiative, the first of its kind in Catalonia, receives support from Guttmann Institute —one of the hospitals collaborating on the new Moebio Design Health Barcelona program— medical technology company Starlab and "la Caixa".
The first course will deal with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for neuropsychiatric research, on 3 and 4 June at the Guttmann Institute, and will be given by Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone, director of the CNBS, and Dr. Felipe Fregni, director of the Neuromodulation Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (Harvard Medical School). Although tDCS was first used in neuroscientific research in the sixties, over the past five years its use has grown quickly and significantly. In this course participants will learn theoretical and practical aspects of tDCS: safety, action mechanisms, experimental use parameters, and regulatory aspects of using this technique in research, among others.
The course is geared towards clinical professionals that want to learn about the theoretical aspects of tDCS and start to develop proper skills for practical application. Tuition for the course is $1,000 and participants are expected to come from around the world.
Afterwards, there will also be a conference entitled Stimulating Brain Function: Optimizing Brain Performance Using Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, on 5 June at Casa Macaya, to explore new areas of research in non-invasive brain stimulation. Access is free of charge for all researchers interested. Featured experts include Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Roi Cohen Kadosh of Oxford University, Michael Nitsche of Gottingen University Medical School, Vincent Walsh of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in London, and Adam Gazzaley of the Neuroscience Imaging Center in San Francisco.