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May 2009
Wed. 27 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club Bruce Luber, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation, will present the following paper: Sack AT, Cohen Kadosh R, Schuhmann T, Moerel M, Walsh V, Goebel R. Optimizing functional accuracy of TMS in cognitive studies: a comparison of methods. J Cogn Neurosci. 2009 Feb;21(2):207-21.
Wed. 27 2:00-3:00pm New PI Room 5001	Investigator Meeting

June 2009
Wed. 3 2:00-3:00pm New PI Room 5001	Monthly Division Staff Meeting Required for all Brain Stimulation staff.
Wed. 10 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club Joan Prudic, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation Angel Peterchev, PhD, Instructor in Clinical Psychiatry, Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation Present the following paper: Sackeim HA, Prudic J, Nobler MS, Fitzsimons L, Lisanby SH, Payne N, Berman RM, Brakemeier E, Perera T, Devanand DP. Effects of pulse width and electrode placement on the efficacy and cognitive effects of electroconvulsive therapy. Brain Stimulation, April 2008 (Vol. 1, Issue 2, Pages 71-83)
Wed. 10 2:00-3:00pm New PI Room 5001	Division Meeting Zhi De Deng: TBA David Murphy and Angel Peterchev, PhD: Initial Tests of Biphasic cTMS (cTMS2) Output Austin Harrison: Tourette's TMS study update
Wed. 17 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club Sonja Blum, MD, PhD, PGY-3 Resident in Neurology, Columbia University, presenting a paper TBA.
Wed. 17 2:00-3:00pm New PI Room 5001	Division Meeting Solomon Segal, Peter Bulow, MD, Stefan Rowny, MD, and Sarah Bellovin-Weiss: Update on the DBS trial - Science and data, clinical status, patient care and follow-up management
Wed. 24 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club "The neural basis of intertemporal choice: Single vs. dual valuation accounts and the role of self-control" Recent research of Figner B, Knoch D, Johnson EJ, Krosch AR, Lisanby SH, Fehr E, & Weber EU. Bernd Figner, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Psychology and Center for the Decision Sciences, Columbia University Papers for Journal Club: Ballard K. & Knutson B. (in press). Dissociable neural representations of future reward magnitude and delay during temporal discounting. NeuroImage. Knoch D. & Fehr E. (2007). Resisting the power of temptations. The right prefrontal cortex and self-control. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1104, 123-134. See the 5/24 Journal Club flier for more information.
Wed. 24 2:00-3:00pm New PI Room 5001	Investigator Meeting

July 2009
Wed. 1 2:00-3:00pm New PI Room 5001	Monthly Division Staff Meeting Required for all Brain Stimulation staff.
Wed. 8 2:00-3:00pm New PI Room 5001	Division Meeting Caren Abitbol: Update on autism study (presentation at Barnard College 5/09) Other presenters TBA
Wed. 15 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club Richard P. Brown, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University will present on his clinical experience using Cranial Electrical Stimulation (a brain stimulating device using low frequency alternating current)
Mon.-Fri. 20-24	Visiting Fellowships in Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Sat.-Mon. 25-27	Visiting Fellowships in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
AUGUST 2009
Wed. 12 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	"Effect of electric fields on gamma oscillations in brain slices" Davide Reato, PhD cand., Neural Engineering Lab, Department of Biomedical Engineering, CUNY Paper: Deans JK, Powell AD, Jefferys JG. Sensitivity of coherent oscillations in rat hippocampus to AC electric fields. J Physiol. 2007, 583(Pt 2):555-65. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.137711
SEPTEMBER 2009
Wed. 09 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club Heather van Volkinburg, PhD candidate, Department of Psychology, Columbia University Presentation: TMS and Modulating Time Paper: Wiener M, Hamilton R, Turkeltaub P, Matell MS, Coslett HB. "Fast Forward: Supramarginal Gyrus Stimulation Alters Time Measurement". J Cogn Neurosci. 2009 Jan 13.
Wed. 16 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club Bruce Luber, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Presentation: Part 1 - Discussion on the new safety and ethical guidelines for TMS based on the 2008 consensus meeting in Siena, Italy Paper: Rossi et al., (2008) Safety, Ethical Considerations, and Application Guidelines for the Use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Clinical Practice and Research
Wed. 30 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club Nicholas Schiff, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medical School and Donald Pfaff, PhD, Professor, Rockefeller University Director, Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior Presentation: Modeling of central thalamic deep brain stimulation for arousal regulation Papers: Schiff, N.D. et al. "Behavioural improvements with thalamic stimulation after severe traumatic brain injury." Nature 448, 600-603 (2 August 2007) \| doi:10.1038/nature06041; Received 13 April 2007; Accepted 22 June 2007 Schiff, N.D. "Central Thalamic Deep-Brain Stimulation in the Severely Injured Brain Rationale and Proposed Mechanisms of Action." Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Mar;1157:101-16.
OCTOBER 2009
Wed. 07 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club Bruce Luber, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Presentation: Part 2 - Discussion on the new safety and ethical guidelines for TMS based on the 2008 consensus meeting in Siena, Italy Paper: Rossi et al., (2008) Safety, Ethical Considerations, and Application Guidelines for the Use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Clinical Practice and Research
Wed. 28 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 6601	Journal Club Angel Peterchev, PhD, Instructor in Psychiatry, Columbia University Presentation: The ECT dose: Time to move beyond charge. Paper: Manuscript will be provided.
Mon.-Fri. 26-30	Visiting Fellowships in Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Sat.-Mon. 31- Nov. 2	Visiting Fellowships in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
NOVEMBER 2009
Wed. 11 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club Mathieu Roy, Ph.D, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Columbia University Presentation: TMS and placebo effects Paper: Krummenacher P, Candia V, Folkers G, Schedlowski M, Schönbächler G. Prefrontal cortex modulates placebo analgesia. Pain. 2009 Oct 27. [Epub ahead of print]
Wed. 18 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club Yael Cycowicz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology Presentation: Duration of off-line TMS effects Paper: Eisenegger C, Treyer V, Fehr E, and Knoch D. Time-course of "off-line" prefrontal rTMS effects - a PET study. NeuroImage 2008(42): 379-384
Wed. 25 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club TBA Presentation: TBA Paper: TBA
DECEMBER 2009
Wed. 2 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club TBA Presentation: TBA Paper: TBA
Wed. 9 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club TBA Presentation: TBA Paper: TBA
Wed. 16 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club TBA Presentation: TBA Paper: TBA
Wed. 23 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club TBA Presentation: TBA Paper: TBA
Wed. 30 1:00-2:00pm New PI Room 5001	Journal Club TBA Presentation: TBA Paper: TBA