Program
Here below you will find the final program for the conference by day.
Introductory session
16:00 – 17:00 Arrival / Registration
16:30 – 17:00 Optional Campus Biotech Tour (MEG / Neuromodulation / EEG / MRI Facilities)
17:00 – 17:15 Welcome (Auditorium H8)
- Tomas Ros (UNIGE & CIBM) & Pina Marziliano (CIBM)
17:15 – 18:00 Plenary lecture (Auditorium H8)
- From Mechanisms to Precision Treatment: Charting the Future of Neurofeedback in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Andrew Nicholson
18:15 – 20:30 Aperitif & Networking (included in registration)
location “Pavillon Barton”
08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Coffee
Morning session – Chair: Prof. Dimitri Van De Ville
Location: Auditorium H8
09:00 – 09:40 Keynote
- How reinforcement learning and metacognition shape brain self-regulation
Aurelio Cortese
09:40 – 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 – 10:20 Hugo Six (ATR, Kyoto)
Value-guided abstraction maps arbitration in a dynamic environment (ID68 – Abstract PDF)
10:20 – 10:40 Jihun Kim (Korea Univ., Seoul)
Whole-brain breath-state real-time fMRI neurofeedback links decoder-guided regulation to the salience network (ID89 – Abstract PDF)
10:40 – 11:00 Lucas Peek (Univ. Geneva
Trial-by-trial fMRI neurofeedback dissociates fusiform and occipital contributions to face detection and recognition (ID122- Abstract PDF)
11:00 – 11:20 Talia Brandman (GrayMatters Health, Haifa)
EEG-fMRI patterns of amygdala and ventral striatal activity as dynamic biomarkers of affective brain systems (ID126)
11:20 – 11:40 Brendan Brady (Univ. Ottawa IMHR)
Amygdala versus posterior cingulate rt-fMRI neurofeedback for PTSD: Interim therapeutic and mechanistic findings (ID71- Abstract PDF)
11:40 – 12:00 Panel and general discussion
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break & Poster session A (Campus Biotech Forum)
Afternoon session – Chair: Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier
14:00 – 14:40 Keynote
- From EEG to fMRI and back: Multimodal insights for neurofeedback intervention
Patricia Figuereido
Afternoon Symposium
Symposium tracks run in parallel from 15:00 to 17:00 with a coffee break from 16:00 to 16:15 in Hall H8.
Download the program of the Symposium here (PDF)
- Track A: Mechanisms, predictors & causal inference (auditorium H8)
Defining Neurofeedback Success in Real-Time fMRI: What, When, and For Whom? – ID24
Chairs: Meghan E. Martz & Stefanie Russman Block (Univ. Michigan) - Track B: Multivariate decoding, AI & next-gen feedback signals (room H8-01-D)
Decoding the Brain in Real Time: Multivariate Approaches to fMRI-Neurofeedback – ID134
Chair: Nitzan Lubianiker (Yale/Princeton) - Track C: Acquisition, signal quality, real-time tooling & BCI (room H8-01-F)
Advancing Multimodal Neurofeedback: Opportunities and Challenges of Simultaneous EEG-fMRI – ID25
Chair: Frédéric Grouiller (Univ. Geneva/HUG/CIBM)
08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Coffee
Morning session – Chair: Dr. Nicolas Gninenko
Location: Auditorium H8
09:00 – 09:40 Keynote
- Invasive Neurofeedback and Brain-Computer-Interfaces: A Neurosurgeon’s Perspective
Oliver Bichsel
09:40 – 10:00 Coffee break
10:00 – 10:20 Vincent Auboiroux (CEA Clinatec, Grenoble)
Real-time OPM-MEG motor control of stroke patients before BCI implantation (ID131 – Abstract PDF)
10:20 – 10:40 Yingying Huang (Univ. Glasgow)
Real-time fMRI connectivity neurofeedback of M1–thalamus and M1–SMA pathways during motor imagery (ID101 – Abstract PDF)
10:40 – 11:00 Stephen LaConte (Virginia Tech, Roanoke)
Tasks as controllers: Engineering real-time fMRI to validate resting-state network dynamics (ID94 – Abstract PDF)
11:00 – 11:20 Eleonora De Filippi (Univ. Strasbourg/Parc Taulí, Sabadell)
Restoring emotional stability through neurofeedback and AI for transformative empowerment (ID30 – Abstract PDF)
11:20 – 11:40 Kathrin Kostorz (Univ. Vienna)
The speed limit of dynamic and real-time synchrony imaging in fNIRS (ID133 – Abstract PDF)
11:40 – 12:00 Panel and general discussion
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break & Poster session B (Campus Biotech Forum)
Afternoon session – Chair: Dr. Sara Stampacchia
14:00 – 14:40 Keynote
- fNIRS-based neurofeedback: Applications in psychiatry
Ann-Christine Ehlis
Afternoon Symposium
Symposium tracks run in parallel from 15:00 to 17:00 with a coffee break from 16:00 to 16:15 in Hall H8.
Download the program of the Symposium here (PDF)
- Track A: Mechanisms, predictors & causal inference (auditorium H8)
Improving the causal mapping of human brain function with neurofeedback (ID80)
Chair: Aurelio Cortese (Sungkyunkwan Univ. / IBS, Suwon) - Track B: Multivariate decoding, AI & next-gen feedback signals (room H8-01-D)
Toward more effective and transferable neurofeedback: From scalable brain decoding to real-world self-regulation (ID22)
Chair: Miroslava Hofmanová (CIMH Mannheim / Heidelberg Univ.) - Track C: Acquisition, signal quality, real-time tooling & BCI (room H8-01-F)
Translational applications for fNIRS neurofeedback training (ID130)
Chair: David Mehler (Uniklinik RWTH Aachen)
19:00 Social Dinne at Restaurant La Perle du Lac (map here)
09:00 – 09:30 Registration & Coffee
Morning session – Chair: Prof. Olaf Blanke
Location: Auditorium H8
09:30 – 10:10 Keynote
- Insight into Feature Modulation, Feedback Effects, and Learner Prediction in EEG Neurofeedback
Elaine Astrand
10:10 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 10:50 Masaya Misaki (Laureate Institute, Tulsa)
EEG biomarkers of antidepressant response to real-time fMRI neurofeedback (ID53 – Abstract PDF)
10:50 – 11:10 Maria Pfeiffer (Univ. Würzburg)
Downregulation of Frontal Midline Theta with Neurofeedback: Easier said than done?” (ID56- Abstract PDF)
11:10 – 11:30 Nitzan Lubianiker (Yale / Princeton)
A vagal pathway from fMRI neurofeedback-induced reward activity to peripheral immunity (ID136 – Abstract PDF)
11:30 – 11:50 Asli Eroglu (MPI Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
Toward closed-loop laminar fMRI: A real-time framework at 9.4T (ID76 – Abstract PDF)
11:50 – 12:10 Panel and general discussion
12:10 – 14:10 Lunch break & Poster session C (Campus Biotech Forum)
Afternoon session – Chair: Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier
14:10 – 14:50 Synapsy Keynote
- Apathy in schizophrenia: Looking for answers in the cerebellum with neuroimaging and brain stimulation
Indrit Bègue
Afternoon Symposium
Symposium tracks run in parallel from 15:00 to 17:00 with a coffee break from 16:00 to 16:15 in Hall H8.
Download the program of the Symposium here (PDF)
- Track A: Mechanisms, predictors & causal inference (auditorium H8)
Predictors of neurofeedback success: From individual differences to frontoparietal control networks (ID23)
Chairs: Jessica Peter (Univ. Bern) & Amelie Haugg (Univ. Zürich) - Track B: Multivariate decoding, AI & next-gen feedback signals (room H8-01-D)
Semantic neurofeedback of emotions: From basic mechanisms to experimental
paradigms and first applications (ID110)
Chair: David Linden (Maastricht Univ.) - Track C: Acquisition, signal quality, real-time tooling & BCI (room H8-01-F)
Advances in M/EEG real-time processing (MNE-RT / GEDAI / AJDC) (ID143)
Chair: Patrick Neff (Univ. Hospital Zürich / Univ. Regensburg)
17:00 – 17:25 Concluding Remarks
Local Organizing Committee (UNIGE & CIBM, EPFL)
