Club MEG

Club MEG is our version of a journal club. We welcome NIH MEG researchers to lead discussions on any MEG topic, including interesting papers, experiment ideas, analysis techniques, or finding from your research.

Interested in presenting a topic? Email Fred Carver at carverf@nih.gov or Jeff Stout at stoutjd@nih.gov if you would like to present.

Notifications of upcoming talks are sent to the MEG_ANNOUNCE (NIH MEG Core Users only) and Club-MEG_ANNOUNCE listservs.

Upcoming Talks/Discussions

• 08/02/2024
  • GUI demo for BIDS creation and additional processing
• 08/15/2024
  • Allison Nugent, fMRI Summer Course: Magnetoencephalography lecture - FAES B1C209
• 09/**/2024
  • Ivano Triggiani
  • Carlos Cortes
• 10/**/2024
  • Jess Gilbert
  • Lina Teichmann
• 11/**/2024
  • MEG Bootcamp

Other notable dates:
OHBM: 06/(23 - 27)/2024
BIOMAG 08/(26 – 29)/2024
Possible DC Brainhack --/--/2024

Recent Talks/Discussions

• 07/12/2024
  • Allison Nugent
    • Multiplexity of human brain oscillations as a personal brain signature
  • Lindsay Oberman
    • No Differences in Auditory Steady-State Responses in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typically Developing Children
• 06/21/2024 1-2pm
  • Sebastian Montesinos, How face perception unfolds over time, Dobs et al. (2019)
  • Jeff Stout, Alpha oscillations do not implement gain control in early visual cortex but rather gating in parieto-occipital regions
• 06/14/2024 1-2pm
  • Peter Krueger, NMR Conference Room (and on Zoom)
• 05/24/2024 at 11:00am FAES classrooms Building 10
  • Tijl Grootswagers : Seeing in a Flash: Neural Decoding of Rapid Object Recognition
• 05/24/2024 at 1:00pm 2X Journal Article
  • Lucrezia Liuzzi, "Towards a more robust non-invasive assessment of functional connectivity "
  • Anna Namyst, "Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain" Gwilliams et al. (*preprint)

• 04/19/2024 at 1:00pm 2X Journal Article
  • Shruti Japee
    • Objects sharpen visual scene representations: evidence from MEG decoding
  • Ryan Oakeson
    • An adversarial collaboration to critically evaluate theories of consciousness
• 03/08/2024 at 1:00pm 2X Journal Article
  • Shivam Bansal
    • Linking structural and functional changes during aging using multilayer brain network analysis
  • Amaia Benitez Andonegui
    • Brain responses in humans reveal ideal observer-like sensitivity to complex acoustic patterns
• 02/23/2024 Yoojin Lee - Dysregulated connectivity among insula, postcentral gyrus, and precuneus and its association with suicide risk
• 02/16/2024 2X Journal Article
  • Fred Carver
    • MEG-based neurofeedback for hand rehabilitation
  • Jeff Stout
    • The natural frequencies of the resting human brain
• 01/26/2024 Megan Parker - A smartphone delivered attention retraining intervention for altering neural underpinnings of food attention bias in adolescent girls with overweight or obesity
• 11/08/2023-11/09/2023 MEG North America (at NIH campus) - https://megcore.nih.gov/index.php/MEG_North_America_Workshop
• 10/20/2023 Club MEG: (Multi-Presenter: 3x 15min talks)
  • Elena Hayday
    • Language MEG predicts postoperative verbal memory change in left mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
  • Pei Robins
    • Whole-Brain Propagation Delays in Multiple Sclerosis, a Combined Tractography-Magnetoencephalography Study
  • Amy Xu
    • Convergent and divergent cognitive impairment of unipolar and bipolar depression: A magnetoencephalography resting-state study
• 09/27(Wednesday) & 10/04/2023(Wednesday)
  • MEG Training Course
  • Code: Course Github Page
• 08/18/2023 Arshitha Basavaraj and Jeff Stout - Curating / Uploading / Editing / Versioning MEG BIDS data for OpenNeuro
• 08/04/2023 Sue Tong and Daniel Eisenberg - Schizophrenia, antipsychotic treatment, and cortical function
• 07/28/2023 Riley Hochstein - Magnetocardiography with OPMs
• 06/30/2023 Club MEG: (Multi-Presenter: 3x 15min talks)
  • Sebastian Montesinos
    • Differential temporal dynamics during visual imagery and perception
  • Miguel Jaime
    • Globally elevated excitation–inhibition ratio in children with autism spectrum disorder and below-average intelligence
  • Bess Bloomer
    • Functional connectivity changes during working memory in autism spectrum disorder: A two-year longitudinal MEG study
• 05/19/2023 Club MEG: (Multi-Presenter: 3X 15min talks)
  • Angela Wang
    • Localization of Early-Stage Visual Processing Deficits at Schizophrenia Spectrum Illness Onset Using Magnetoencephalography
  • Price Withers
    • Dynamic analysis on simultaneous iEEG-MEG data via hidden Markov model
  • Kaya Scheman
    • Advanced dynamic statistical parametric mapping with MEG in localizing epileptogenicity of the bottom of sulcus dysplasia
• 05/12/2023 Christian Brodbeck (University of Connecticut) - Eelbrain Software Demonstration (for neurophysiological statistics)
  • https://eelbrain.readthedocs.io/en/r-0.27/index.html
• 05/05/2023 -- MEG Hackathon 2023
  • GitHub_Repos
• 04/28/2023 at 1:00pm Club MEG: Abbas Babajani-Feremi - (University of Florida) - MEG Presurgical Language Mapping Using a Novel Automatic Equivalent Current Dipole Algorithm (AsECDa) in Comparison with MNE, dSPM, and DICS Beamformer
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 04/21/2023 at 1:00pm Hackathon Prep -- Go over ideas and best practices - setup git repos for the project.
  • MEG Hackathon 2023 -- SIGN UP!
• 03/03/2023 Graham Flick (New York University) - Visual word recognition in natural reading: A co-registered MEG and eye-tracking study
• 02/24/2023 Georgios Michalareas (Max Planck Institute) - Alpha-Beta and Gamma Rhythms Subserve Feedback and Feedforward Influences among Human Visual Cortical Areas
• 02/03/2023 Lina Teichman and Amaia Benitez Andonegui - The temporal evolution of colour-space geometries in the human brain
• 01/27/2023 Lucrezia Liuzzi - Identifying markers of cognitive control
• 12/09/2022 Ryan Oakeson and Amaia Benitez, Top-down information flow drives lexical access when listening to continuous speech
• 12/02/2022 Anna Namyst, Establishing New Mappings between Familiar Phones: Neural and Behavioral Evidence for Early Automatic Processing of Nonnative Contrasts
• 10/28/2022 - Sharif Kronemer - "The neural mechanisms of afterimages: A model of illusory conscious perception"
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 10/07/2022 - Sarah Grewal - On-Scalp Optically Pumped Magnetometers versus Cryogenic Magnetoencephalography for Diagnostic Evaluation of Epilepsy in School-aged Children (Journal Article)
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 09/16/2022 Lindsay Oberman - Autism background, MEG autism biomarkers, interventional approach, and preliminary study results
  • Recording Download (mp4)
  • Prospective MEG biomarkers in ASD: pre-clinical evidence and clinical promise of electrophysiological signatures
• 09/15/2022 Biomag 2022 Recap
• 08/19/2022 Kunjan Rana - Communication Between the Amygdala and Cortex in the Context of Face Processing
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 08/05/2022 Shruti Japee - Temporal Dynamics of Facial Expression Processing
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 05/20/2022 Priyanka Shah (Medical College of Wisconsin) - Resting Connectivity Changes in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 05/13/2022 Jess Gilbert - MEG Studies of Treatment-Resistant Depression and Ketamine Response
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 04/29/2022 Ethan Buch Consolidation of human skill linked to waking hippocampo-neocortical replay
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 04/08/2022 Allison Nugent Temporal hierarchy of intrinsic neural timescales converges with spatial core-periphery organization
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 03/10/2022 Stephen Robinson - Using Information Theory for MEG Studies
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 02/11/2022 Megan Parker - Neural regulatory mechanism of desire for food: revealed by magnetoencephalography (article)
• 11/12/2021 Amaia Benitez, From ECoG to Magnetocorticography: Optically Pumped Magnetometers for Non-Invasive, High Resolution Imaging
  • Recording Download (mp4)
  • Slides: OPM and MCog Research Introduction
• 10/22/2021 Stephen Robinson, Fundamentals of Beamformers (mp4)
  • Recording Download (mp4)
  • Slides: SAM Beamforming Fundamentals
• 10/23/2020 Angela Wang and Tom Holroyd, Neurofeedback Discussion.
  • Slides: Neurofeedback Review; Real-time Beamforming.

Previous Tutorials and Training

• Jeff Stout (02/17/2023) - Making python modules
  • Configuring a setup.py file
• Jeff Stout (10/21/2022) - MNE_BIDS/MNE_BIDS_PIPELINE/Biowulf MEG Bids Modules
  • Recording Download (mp4)
  • Slides
  • mne-bids example usage
  • Additional Info (referenced in video): https://megcore.nih.gov/index.php/Mne_bids_pipeline
• John Veillette, University of Chicago (10/14/2022) - MNE-ARI (All Resolutions Imaging) Theoretical Overview and Demo
  • https://github.com/john-veillette/mne-ari
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• Tom Holroyd (09/30/2022) - Demonstration of SAM beamforming using Sequential Regression (SER) covariance updating for real-time analysis
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• Anna Namyst and Jeff Stout (09/09/2022) - Eye Tracking Overview
  • https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2772164
  • https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.09.451139v1.full.pdf
  • Slides
• Group Session (08/12/2022) - Connectivity Coding Zoom Call Meg_information_based_connectivity_coding_session
• Andrea Brovelli & Etienne Combrisson, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (07/13/2022) - FRITES Theoretical Overview and Demo (Connectivity Calculation and Stats)
  • Recording Download (mp4)
  • Website and Github Page Example Training Notebooks
  • Paper: Group-level inference of information-based measures for the analyses of cognitive brain networks from neurophysiological data
• MEG Hackathon 05/06/2022
• Eric Earl (04/27/2022) - Github Presentation and Discussion
  • Presentation Slides Advanced Github Features
  • Recording Download (mp4)
  • Additional Links:
    • ReadTheDocs
    • BioDataClub OSF
• Jeff Stout, Intro to Git, 04/12/2022 -
  • Recording Download
  • Git Tutorial Commands
  • Additional Links:
    • Scientific Programming Guidelines - Including Git
• Jeff Stout, Intro Python, 03/29/2022 - Dictionaries/Functions/Scripts/Modules/commandline interface -- Recording Download (mp4)
• Fred Carver & Jeff Stout, Tutorial Link (01/21/22) -- MEG Group Data Analysis in AFNI and MNE Python
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• Jeff Stout, MNE Python Tutorial 2021 -- Introduction to MEG processing with MNE Python
• NIMH MEG Core Staff, NIH MEG Short Course 2018 -- Useful training materials.

Special Interest Groups

Machine Learning Special Interest Group (ML SIG) - 4th Friday of every month 1-2pm. Contact Jeff Stout for more information on joining or presenting.
Prior ML SIG topics:

• 05/27/2022 Jeff Stout - MEGnet: Automatic ICA-based artifact removal for MEG using spatiotemporal convolutional neural networks
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 04/15/2022 Leonardo Claudino - Decoding Pipeline
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 03/25/2022 Mina Kheirkhah Rahimabadi - Classification of brain responses to emotional image stimuli measured with MEG
• 03/04/2022 Dave Dash - Decoding speech with MEG
  • Recording Download (mp4)
• 01/28/2022 Lina Teichmann - Bayes Factors for Time-series Decoding
  • Teichmann 01/28/22 Recording Download (mp4)
  • Slides: Bayes Factors for Time-Series Decoding
  • Journal Article and Associated Code
• 12/03/2021 Initial meeting for Machine Learning in MEG SIG - Journal Club discussion: Deconstructing multivariate decoding for the study of brain function