Neuroscience Techniques in Electrophysiology

Programme

Note: Short lectures introduce the theoretical background of the different electrophysiological techniques. The major focus of the course is however on practical experience. Students work in small groups to perform the experiments in a rotating scheme. Therefore, the indicated time line below differs between the groups.

Monday November 4, 2024

“Animal and Cellular Electrophysiology, part I”

12.00:	Lunch Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0
13:00:	Welcome and introduction André Mouraux Building Harvey (55) – Level 0 – Seminar Harvey 3
13:15:	Basic concepts in electrophysiology Philippe Gailly Building Harvey (55) – Level 0 – Seminar Harvey 3
15:00:	3 Practicals in 3 groups, rotated each hour Building Pasteur (53) – FYCL – Level -1 • Group 1 : Practical 1: The lipid bilayer (P. Gailly) • Group 2 : Practical 2: Electrophysiology on neurons (R. Gualdani & T. Parpaite) • Group 3 : Practical 3: Hippocampal brain slices and LTP (X. Yerna & F. Issa)
19.00:	Dinner, location: Le Vignoble, Avenue de Tervueren 368, 1150 Brussels https://www.levignoble.be/

Tuesday November 5, 2024
Morning - “Animal and Cellular Electrophysiology, part II”

08.30	Coffee Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0
09.00:	3 Practicals in 3 groups, rotated each hour Building Pasteur (53) – FYCL – Level -1 • Group 1 : Practical 2 : Electrophysiology on neurons (R. Gualdani & T. Parpaite) • Group 2 : Practical 3 : Hippocampal brain slices and LTP (X. Yerna & F. Issa) • Group 3 : Practical 1 : The lipid bilayer (P. Gailly)
12.00:	Lunch Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0

Afternoon - “Animal and Cellular electrophysiology, part III”

13.30:	3 Practicals in 3 groups, rotated each hour • Group 1 : Practical 3 : Hippocampal brain slices and LTP (X. Yerna & F. Issa) • Group 2 : Practical 1 : The lipid bilayer (P. Gailly) • Group 3 : Practical 2 : Electrophysiology on neurons (R. Gualdani & T. Parpaite)
17.00:	Demo: Hippocampal slices / Multielectrode array (Marie-Laure Possovre, 3D Brain) Building Laennec (57) – Level 0 – Gerty Cori Seminar

Wednesday November 6, 2024

08.30

Coffee
Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0

“Human electrophysiology, part I – EEG and ERPs”
Auditoires Centraux – Auditorium Maisin

Lectures:

09.30:	Nature of the EEG signal / event-related brain potentials (A.Mouraux)
10.00:	Sensory-evoked potentials for clinical diagnoses (S. El Sankari)
10.30:	Intracerebral EEG for human neuroscience research (G. Liberati)
11.00:	EEG for the diagnostic workup of epilepsy (V.Danthine -online)
11.30:	Event-related brain potentials for cognitive neuroscience (V. Legrain)
12:00:	Lunch Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0
13.30:	Human electrophysiology – Practical I. 3 groups, rotated each 1,5 hour Group 1: Practical 2: Event-related brain potentials (G. Herbillon & V. Legrain) • Group 2: Practical 3: Rodent EEG-video setup (A. Dereli & E. Ignacio) • Group 3: Practical 1: Recording of the scalp EEG (C. Leu & A. Boutachkourt)
15.00:	• Group 1: Practical 3: Rodent EEG-video setup (A. Dereli & E. Ignacio) • Group 2: Practical 1: Recording of the scalp EEG (C. Leu & A. Boutachkourt) • Group 3: Practical 2: Event-related brain potentials (G. Herbillon & V. Legrain)
16.30:	• Group 1: Practical 1: Recording of the scalp EEG (C. Leu & A. Boutachkourt) • Group 2: Practical 2: Event-related brain potentials (G. Herbillon & V. Legrain) • Group 3: Practical 3: Rodent EEG-video setup (A. Dereli & E. Ignacio)

Thursday November 7, 2024

08.30

Coffee
Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0

“Human electrophysiology, part II – Non-invasive brain stimulation”
Building ICP (74) – Level 0 – Seminar ICP 3

Lectures:

09.00:	Vagus nerve stimulation and pupillometry (Riem El Tahry & Shiyong Su)
10.00:	Transcranial direct current stimulation and related techniques (Giulia Liberati)
11.00:	Transcranial magnetic stimulation, MEPs, neuronavigation (Robert Hardwick)
12.00:	Lunch Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0
13.30:	3 Practicals in 3 groups, rotated each hour Group 1: Practical 3: VNS/tVNS, pupillometry and eye tracking • Group 2: Practical 1: TMS, EMG and neuronavigation (M. Moreno Verdu & B. Waltzing) • Group 3: Practical 2: tDCS/tACS (Y Fathi Arateh)
15.00:	• Group 1: Practical 1: TMS, EMG and neuronavigation (M. Moreno Verdu & B. Waltzing) • Group 2: Practical 2: tDCS/tACS (Y Fathi Arateh) • Group 3: Practical 3: VNS/tVNS, pupillometry and eye tracking
16.30:	• Group 1: Practical 2: tDCS/tACS (Y Fathi Arateh) • Group 2: Practical 3: VNS/tVNS, pupillometry and eye tracking • Group 3: Practical 1: TMS, EMG and neuronavigation (M. Moreno Verdu & B. Waltzing)
18.00:	Board game night Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0 Organized by the IoNS PhD Association (IPA)

Friday November 8, 2024

08.30

Coffee
Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0

Human electrophysiology – Lectures III – Electromyography and gait analysis

09.00:	Electromyography and gait analysis (Arthur Dewolf) Building ICP (74) – Level 0 – Seminar ICP 1
10.00:	Human electrophysiology – Practical III Building Vésale (52) – Level +4 – NMSK 3 Practicals in 3 groups, rotated each hour • Group 1: Practical 1: Gait analysis, cinematics & EMG (A. Dewolf & V. Otlet) • Group 2: Practical 2: Nerve conduction velocity studies (T. Lejeune & G. Stoquart) • Group 3: Practical 3:
11.00:	Group 1: Practical 2: Nerve conduction velocity studies (T. Lejeune & G. Stoquart) • Group 2: Practical 3: • Group 3: Practical 1: Gait analysis, cinematics & EMG (A. Dewolf & V. Otlet)
12.00:	• Group 1: Practical 3: • Group 2: Practical 1: Gait analysis, cinematics & EMG (A. Dewolf & V. Otlet) • Group 3: Practical 2: Nerve conduction velocity studies (T. Lejeune & G. Stoquart)
13.00:	Lunch Building Pasteur (53) – IoNS – Level 0