The Rennes HIVE mini-workshop took place on October 23 2009 in Rennes, hosted by INSERM. Here is a summary of the agenda, and available presentations attached.

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During Oct.19-23 2009, LTSI (Inserm U642) hosted the third plenary meeting of the HIVE project (http://hive-eu.org/) on brain stimulation. This is a four year project that began in September 2008. 

A workshop was planned and took place on Friday (Oct. 23) on the topic of biophysical modeling of stimulation currents and effects on neuronal systems. For this occasion, Giulio Ruffini (Starlab) gave a short introduction to the Hive project followed by Profs Ben Jansen (University of Houston, USA), Vincent Walsh (University College London), Michael Nitsche (Georg-August-University, Göttingen), Fabrice Wendling (Inserm, University of Rennes) and Pedro Miranda (FFCUL, Lisbon) who presented their recent work.

Presentations (9:00 – 13:00) were open to the public. They took place at the DIAPASON center, located on the “Campus de Beaulieu” of the Université de Rennes 1.

Agenda: 2009 (Rennes) HIVE Workshop on Brain Stimulation

9:00 Dr. G. Ruffini - Starlab, Barcelona

“HIVE Introduction & Welcome”

9:15 Pr Ben Jansen - University of Houston

“Development of a multi-channel, reconfigurable trans-cranial magnetic stimulation coil”

10:15 Dr Med Michael Nitsche - Georg-August-University Göttingen

“Trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and friends - an update”

10:45 Pr Vincent Walsh - University College London

“Brain Stimulation and Initial Conditions: neurons, tasks and strategies”

11:15 Coffee break

11:45 Pr Fabrice Wendling - INSERM, University of Rennes

“Models for impact of currents on neocortical tissue and brain neurodynamics”

12:15 Pr Pedro Miranda - FFCUL, Lisbon

“Modelling the electric field distribution in transcranial neural stimulation”

12:45 Discussions

13:00 Lunch