9th Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop
London (Institute of Psychiatry)
23-24-25 March 2011

Dear all,

The 9th Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop will be held in London (Institute of Psychiatry) on the 23-24-25 March 2011. This workshop intends to help scientists to develop and optimise strategies for DTI datasets analysis and tractography. The number of participants is limited to 12 for allowing 1:1 tutoring. 
The participants will be able to work on their own datasets and receive advice from the members of the Natbrainlab (http://www.natbrainlab.com). 
This is also an opportunity to familiarise with fundaments of white matter anatomy and brain hodology.

Wednesday 23th March VISUALIZATION OF WHITE MATTER CONNECTIONS 
09:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:30 Brain Hodology: From post mortem dissections to diffusion MRI (M Catani)
10:30 - 11:30 Introduction to Diffusion Tensor MRI (F Dell'Acqua)
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 Diffusion Tensor Tractography (F Dell'Acqua)
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 DTI data formats: Management and pre-processing (M Thiebaut de Schotten)
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00 Tractography with TrackVis (M Thiebaut de Schotten)

Thursday 24th March VIRTUAL IN VIVO DISSECTIONS 
09:30 - 10:00 Classification of white matter connections (M Catani)
10:00 - 11:00 Association Pathways 1 (M Catani)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30 Association Pathways 2 (S Budisavljevic)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 Commissural Pathways (S Forkel)
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00 Projections Pathways (S Forkel)

Friday 25th March DTI TRACTOGRAPHY: CURRENT APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 
09:30 - 10:30 Beyond the limitations of tensor modeling (F Dell'Acqua)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:30 Studying Normal Anatomy with DTI Tractography (M Catani)
11:30 - 12:30 Applications to Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders (M Catani)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 Supervised Dissection 1
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30 Supervised Dissection 2
16:30 -17:00 Conclusions & Take Home Messages (M Catani)


Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, PhD
NATBRAINLABANR-CAFORPFC/ANR-HMTC
CRICM-INSERM UMRS 975
Pavillon de l'Enfance et l'Adolescence
47 Bd de l'Hôpital
75651 Paris Cedex 13, France
www.natbrainlab.com
skype: michel_thiebaut_de_schotten
+33 613579133