TMS Certification Course & Masterclass
12 – 14 April 2023
Join us for an exciting once yearly Brainclinics Foundation event, the TMS Masterclass & TMS Certification Course in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. On April 12-14, 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-renowned speakers on day 2 and 3. We’re excited to welcome a great line-up of keynote speakers who 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. The masterclass (day 2 & 3) has been awarded 13 points and the certification course (all 3 days) 20 points.
Accreditation for NVvP (12 points) and for FGzPt (14 points) has been granted.
The courses are accepted as free theoretical credits for the Swiss Society for Interventional Psychiatry, SGIP-SSPI, certificate.
Program
Day 1: TMS Certification Course Essentials
9.00 – 9.45 | Welcome and introduction TMS Course, TMS essentials: History Martijn Arns |
9.45 – 11.00 | TMS essentials-II: Physics, equipment, parameters and safety Jonathan Downar |
11.00 – 11.30 | Coffee break |
11.30 – 12.30 | TMS as treatment for depression Nikita van der Vinne |
12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
13.30 – 14.30 | The neuromodulation family (tDCS, tACS, VNS, DBS) Martijn Arns |
14.30 – 15.30 | Hands-on TMS: Finding the MT |
15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee break |
16.00 – 17.45 | Hands-on TMS: Coil placement and coil orientation |
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 | Welcome and introduction TMS Masterclass Martijn Arns |
10.45 – 11.00 | Coffee break |
11.00 – 12.30 | TMS as a treatment for OCD Odile van den Heuvel |
12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
13.30 – 15.00 | Beyond once daily 10-Hz DLPFC TMS: iTBS, accelerated TMS and alternative coil positions Jonathan Downar |
15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee break |
15.30 – 16.00 | Clinical effectiveness of OFC TMS and sleep predictors Nikita van der Vinne |
16.00 – 17.00 | TMS treatment for symptoms of schizophrenia André Aleman |
17.00 – 17.30 | Hands-on TMS and demo: Alternative coil positions and iTBS |
17.30 | Review and questions |
18.00 – 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 – 15.15 | Circuit-based modulation: Connectome and lesion studies Shan Siddiqi |
15.15 – 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 |
16.30 – 17.30 | Hands-on TMS: Heart-Brain Coupling demo Lauren Zwienenberg & Eva Dijkstra |
17.30 | Farewell |

Speakers

Shan Siddiqi
Sidney R. Baer Fellow in Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry at Harvard Medical School, MGH/McLean

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

Odile A. van den Heuvel
Psychiatrist and professor of Neuropsychiatry Amsterdam University Medical Centers & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

André Aleman
Professor at University of Groningen, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences

Martijn Figee
Associate Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Martijn Arns
Research Director and Founder of Research Institute Brainclinics

Nikita van der Vinne
Senior Researcher Synaeda

Helena Voetterl
Researcher and PhD Candidate Brainclinics

Eva Dijkstra
PhD Candidate Brainclinics
General Manager at Neurowave

Lauren Zwienenberg
PhD Candidate Brainclinics & Synaeda