Masterclass Brainclinics

TMS Certification Course & Masterclass 2023

April 12-14, 2023

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Join us for an exciting once yearly Brainclinics Foundation event, the TMS Masterclass & TMS Certification Course in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. On April 12-14, 2023 we will take you from the basics of TMS and Brain Stimulation on day 1, to exciting new developments in the field of Brain Stimulation and TMS with world renown speakers on day 2 and 3. We’re excited to welcome a great line-up of keynote speakers that will share with you their latest insights and research including Shan Siddiqi, Odile A. van den Heuvel, Jonathan Downar and Martijn Figee. Topics that will be covered are circuit based Brain Stimulation and TMS, new clinical indications of TMS including OCD, alternative coil positions, accelerated TMS and iTBS, precision TMS, stratified psychiatry and TMS induced heart-brain coupling/NCG-TMS.

The full three days fulfil the required blueprint of the Dutch Hersenstimulatie Stichting for TMS Certification, and the 2 or 3 days qualify for continuing education credits for recertification. Accreditation at NVvP and FGzP has been approved: 13 points for the Masterclass (day 2&3) and 20 points for the certification course (all 3 days).

Hands-on practice will be performed on Deymed and MagVenture hardware.

Program

Day 1: TMS Certification Course Essentials

9.00 – 9.15	Welcome and introduction TMS Certification Course: TMS essentials Martijn Arns
9.15 – 11.00 11.00-11.15	TMS essentials: History, physics, equipment, parameters and safety: Trevor Brown Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30	TMS as a treatment for depression: Martijn Arns
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch
13.30 – 14.30	The neuromodulation family (tDCS, tACS, VNS, DBS): Trevor Brown
14.30 – 16.00	Hands-on TMS: Coil placement and coil orientation Helena, Eva, Renee, Nikita, Lauren, Amourie

16.00 –16.15	Coffee break
16.15– 17.45	Hands-on TMS: Coil placement and coil orientation Helena, Eva, Renee, Nikita, Lauren, Amourie
17.45	Review, questions, closing of the day

Day 2: TMS Masterclass – What’s hot and new: New TMS indications and protocols

9.30 -10.45	Welkcome and introduction TMS Masterclass Martijn Arns
10.45 -11.00	Coffee break
11.00 -12.30	TMS as a treatment for OCD: s Odile van den Heuvel
12.30 -13.30	Lunch
13.30 -15.30	Beyond once daily 10-Hz DLPFC TMS: iTBS, accelerated TMS and alternative coil positions: Jonathan Downar
15.30-15.45	Coffee break
15.45 -16.15	Clinical effectiveness of OFC TMS and sleep predictors: Ylka Kolken/Nikita van der Vinne
16.15 – 17.00	TMS as a treatment beyond Depression and OCD: Trevor Brown
17.00 – 17.30	Hands-on TMS and demo: Alternative coil positions and iTBS
17.30	Review and questions
18.30 – 22.00	Walking dinner

Day 3: TMS Masterclass – Treating the patient, not the group: Circuit based TMS and individualising TMS

9.30 –- 10.00	Treating the patient: Precision-TMS and Stratified Psychiatry Martijn Arns
10.00-10.45	Brainmarker-I as a stratification marker for Brain Stimulation treatments Helena Voetterl
10.45-11.00	Coffee break
11.00-12.30	Which brain circuits to modulate? Insights from DBS Martijn Figee
12.30- 13.30	Lunch
13.30- 15:30	Circuit-based neuromodulation: Connectome and lesion studies: Shan Siddiqi
15:30 - 15.45	Coffee break
15.45- 16.30	Getting to the heart of TMS: Targeting the Frontal-Vagal-pathway using Heart-Brain Coupling: Lauren Zwienenberg, Eva Dijkstra & Renee Rouwhorst
16.00 – 17.30	Hands on TMS: Heart-Brain Coupling demo Lauren Zwienenberg, Eva Dijkstra & Renee Rouwhorst
17.30	Review, questions & Farewell

Speakers

Shan Siddiqi

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Odile van den Heuvel

Psychiatrist / professor of Neuropsychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Martijn Figee

Psychiatrist and Associate Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jonathan Downar

Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Medical Science
Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto

Martijn Arns

Researcher Director and Founder of Research Institute Brainclinics in 2001

Eva Dijkstra

PhD candidate, founder Neurowave

Ylka Kolken

Cognitive neuroscience at University of Maastricht

Renee Rouwhorst

Klinisch Neuropsycholoog

What participants say

Our participants valued this course with a 9,4

"Very useful and updated"

" Nice update on rTMS in psychiatry, with a lot of relevant topics and hands on practice"

"Must have in the field of Neuromodulation!"

"Very high level interdisciplinary neuroscience masterclass regarding NIBS and psychiatry, of interest to the starter in the field but also very interesting and useful to the experienced professional"

"Inspiring update of new developments in the field"

"Great update about latest developments in rTMS"

"Very informative and practically useful"