Course Schedule

Morning

Topics:

• Mechanisms of the generation of EEG rhythms
• Background EEG as reflection of cortical selfregulation
• What does clinical EEG mean?
• Pathological EEG patterns (slow waves, spikes, paroxysms...) in epilepsy, brain tumors, and some other brain disorders
• Mapping potentials
• Making Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (LORETA and s-LORETA) from the potential maps

Educational objective:
Understand the foundations of clinical EEG, namely:

1. neuronal basics of brain rhythms generation
2. methods of recording and montaging
3. distinguish non-EEG artifacts from EEG records,
4. correct for artifacts using various approaches available by means of software tools
5. distinguish pathological EEG patterns by means of visual inspection as well as by means of automated tools
6. use brain maps and s-LORETA imaging for depicting the data.

Procedure:
Lecture (Power Point presentation is supplied)
Practice with EEG records of healthy subjects and patients from the HBI database (software and EEG files are supplied).

Afternoon

Topics:

• Recording an EEG in resting state (eyes open, eyes closed, hyperventilation)
• Visual inspection of the EEG recording
• Artifact correction
• Automated spike detection

Educational objective:

1. to place electrodes on the patients´ head according to 10-20 system
2. to start, to end and to store an EEG recording
3. to be able to use the built-in user database to manage the datasets
4. to remontage the recording.

Procedure:
The attendees will be divided into groups. Each group will be supplied with hardware/software for recording and analysis. One of the attendees will serve as a subject (to be recorded) while the others will do recording.

Morning

Topics:

• Quantitative EEG as a method for neuro-metrics
• QEEG-endophenotypes (biological markers) in healthy population
• QEEG-endophenotypes in brain disorders

Educational objective:
Methods of spectral analysis, including

1. Fourier and wavelet transformations
2. coherence
3. event related de-synchronization
4. show how these methods enable us to reveal QEEG-endophenotypes of brain disorders such as ADHD, dyslexia, anxiety.

Procedure:
Lecture, practicing with EEG records of healthy subjects and patients from the HBI database.

Afternoon

Topics:

• Spectral and coherence analysis of EEG recorded on the first day
• Comparing spectral characteristics of recorded EEG with the normative data of the HBI reference database.

Educational objective:

1. to remontage the recording into the HBI database montage
2. to perform spectral and coherence analysis
3. to compare the results of the analysis with the HBI database
4. to make interpretations of the results.

Procedure:
The attendees will be divided into groups. Each group will be supplied with software for analysis. The analysis of EEG of the subjects recorded on the first day will be done. Spectra, coherence, theta/beta ratios, asymmetry maps for EEGs recorded on the first day will be computed and analyzed.

Morning

Topics:

• Event related potentials (ERPs) as markers of stages of information flow in the brain
• Association of ERPs components with functioning of brain systems
• Reflection of dysfunctioning of brain systems in ERPs components.

Educational objective:
Methods of Event Related Potentials, including

1. averaging technique
2. Independent Component Analysis (ICA), as well as
3. to show the discriminative power of ERPs in ADHD, dyslexia,  traumatic brain injury.

Procedure:
Lecture, practicing with EEG records of healthy subjects and patients from the HBI database.

Afternoon

Topics:

• Recording of EEG in Visual Contingent Performance Task (VCPT)
• Preprocessing of EEG
• Computing ERPs by averaging technique
• Comparison of behavioral parameters (omission and commission errors, latencies and variances of responses) with the normative data of the HBI database
• Comparison of ERPs with the HBI database
• Comparison of ICA components of ERPs with the normative data.

Educational objective:

1. to use Psytask software for presenting tasks provided with the HBI database
2. to record EEG in one of the tasks (such as VCPT)
3. to compute ERPs and behavioral parameters
4. to analyze ERPs visually and to make maps as well as LORETA images of ERPs components, and
5. to compare ERPs and ERPs components with the HBI reference database.

Procedure:
The attendees will be divided into groups. Each group will be supplied with hardware/software for recording and analysis. One of the attendees will serve as a subject (to be recorded) while the others will do recording. An EEG in the VCPT task will be recorded and analyzed.

Morning

Topics:

• Neurofeedback and tDCS as tools of neurotherapy
• Neurotherapy for peak performance in healthy subjects
• Neurotherapy for correcting cortical dysregulation in brain disorders
• Neurotherapy for correcting disorders of information flow

Educational objective:
methods of neurotherapy, including

1. QEEG-based neurofeedback
2. s-LORETA neurofeedback
3. ICA-neurofeedback
4. ERP-based neurofeedback
5. transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
6. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).

Procedure:
Lecture, practicing with EEG records of patients from the HBI database and constructing neurotherapy protocols.

Afternoon

Topics:

• Analysis of EEG records made during the first days
• Constructing neurotherapy protocols for peak performance by using the recorded EEG files
• Analysis of EEG records of patients from the HBI reference database
• Constructing neurotherapy protocols for treatment

Educational objective:
to use the HBI reference database for constructing  protocols of neurotherapy.

Procedure:
The attendees will be divided into groups. Each group will be supplied with an HBI database. The records made during the first days will be analyzed and neurofeedback protocols for peak performance will be suggested. Several records of patients of the HBI database will be analyzed.

Morning

Topics:

• Overview equipment and software
• How to make a report by yourself
• How to read reports made by HBI experts
• How to monitor the results of treatment
• What service is available
• How can you contribute to the normative database

Educational objective:

1. How to incorporate the learned methodology in the clinical practice
2. How to use information obtained by the methodology for diagnosis, treatment and monitoring treatment progress and result

Procedure:
Lecture: reviewing reports made by the HBImed experts (the template of the report will be supplied).
Practice: comparing the pre- and post EEG spectra and ERPs. At the end the attendees will be given a written multi-choice examination to test the  knowledge they have obtained during the workshop.