Time

December 9 (Monday)

December 10 (Tuesday)

December 11 (Wednesday)

08:30-08:45

08:30-09:00

08:30-09:00

08:45-09:00

Registration

Registration

09:00-09:15

09:00-09:45

09:00-09:45

09:15-09:30

09:00-10:00

Keynote 2
Critical Issues when designing randomized clinical trials for neurofeedback interventions

Keynote 4
Directly testing the roles of resting-state networks with real-time fMRI

09:30-09:45

Registration

(Kymberly Young)

(Stephen La Conte)

09:45-10:00

09:45-10:30

09:45-10:30

10:00-10:15

10:00-10:45

Scientific Symposium 1

Scientific Symposium 3

10:15-10:30

Opening

Methodological insights and novel developments in the field of neurofeedback 

1. Just a very expensive breathing training? Risk of respiratory artefacts in functional connectivity-based real-time fMRI neurofeedback Franziska Weiß; Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
2. Learning bi-modal EEG-fMRI neurofeedback to improve neurofeedback in EEG only Claire Cury; Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France
3. Improving SVM’s Classification Performance during Real-Time Neurofeedback Training Toshiharu Nakai; Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan

Clinical applications of neurofeedback 

1. Using connectivity based real time fMRI neurofeedback to modulate attentional and resting state networks in people with high trait anxiety
   Elenor Morgenroth; Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom
2. Modulation of fronto-limbic networks in post-traumatic stress disorder
   Jana Zweerings; Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
3. Learning and short-term transfer of volitional suppression of pathological oscillations in the subthalamic nucleus through electrode-guided neurofeedback in Parkinson patients
   Oliver Bichsel; Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

10:30-10:45

(Rainer Goebel)

10:30-10:45 (Coffee Break)

10:30-10:45 (Coffee Break)

10:45-11:00

10:45-11:30

10:45-11:30

10:45-11:30

11:00-11:15

Keynote 1

Scientific Symposium 2

Scientific Symposium 4

11:15-11:30

Translational neuromodeling, computational psychiatry and computational psychosomatics

(Klaas Enno Stephan)

Application of neurofeedback in healthy participants

1. Modulatory effects of dynamic fMRI-based neurofeedback on emotion regulation networks in adolescent females
   Catharina Zich; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
2. Synchronous Inter-Hemispheric Temporal Dynamics in Neurofeedback-Enhanced Attention and Somatosensory Networks Induced by Individualized Real-time fMRI Neurofeedback to Cranial Nerve IX and XII Projections
   Dorina Papageorgiou; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States of America
3. fMRI Informed EEG Model of Right Inferior Frontal Gyrus Activity; computational and functional validity
   Guy Gurevitch; Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Novel methodological developments for brain-based communication and control 

1. Towards Hippocampal Navigation for Brain-Computer Interfaces
   Jeremy Saal; Department of Neurosurgery, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
2. An efficient fMRI-based brain-computer interface to encode yes/no answers
   Danielle Evenblij; Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
3. Triggering Robotically-Induced Movement in an fMRI-Based Brain Computer Interface Gustavo S. Pamplona; (Department of Ophthalmology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland)

11:30-11:45

11:30-12:30

Special Topic 1

11:30-12:30

Special Topic 3

11:30-12:30

Special Topic 4

11:45-12:00

From causality to enhancement – different methods for different goals?

Michal Ramot

Process-based Framework for Neurofeedback Interventions – Towards Precise Neuromodulation in Psychiatry

Talma Hendler

Promises and Challenges of Amygdala-Neurofeedback

Christian Paret

12:00-12:15

Neuromodulation of altered brain activation patterns in schizophrenia

Jana Zweerings

Clinical trials and methodological considerations of neurofeedback: ADHD, PTSD and optimal performance in cognitive control

Martijn Arns 

12:15-12:30

12:30-12:45

12:45-13:00

12:30-13:30

12:30-13:30

12:30-13:30

13:00-13:15

(Lunch break)

(Lunch break)

(Lunch break)

13:15-13:30

13:30-13:45

13:45-14:00

14:00-14:15

13:30-15:30

13:30-15:30

13:30-15:30

14:15-14:30

Poster Presentations

Poster Presentations

Poster Presentations

14:30-14:45

and exhibition

and exhibition

and exhibition

14:45-15:00

15:00-15:15

15:15-15:30

15:30-15:45

15:30-16:30

Special Topic 2

15:30-16:15

15:30-16:15

15:45-16:00

New methodological developments in the field of real-time fMRI Applications

Mikhail Zvyagintsev

Keynote 3
Can science explain consciousness? Lessons from coma and related states

Keynote 5
Neurofeedback and neuroplasticity: implications for rehabilitation

16:00-16:15

How to hit a moving target: What the developing brain can tell us

(Steven Laureys)

(Heidi Johansen-Berg)

16:15-16:30

 about target selection in real-time fMRI-based neurofeedback

Kathrin Cohen Kadosh 

16:15-17:15

16:30-16:45

16:30-17:30
Chair's Symposium

16:15-17:30

Quo vadis neurofeedback: Clinical evidence or scientific endeavor?
Plenary discussion

16:45-17:00

From closed-loop to Total Recall: implicit reinforcement and brain-brain interface (Klaus Mathiak)

Town-hall meeting

Ben Becker and Klaus Mathiak 

17:00-17:15

What’s in the thermometer? Towards semantic neurofeedback at 7 Tesla (Rainer Goebel)

Klaus Mathiak and James Sulzer

17:15-17:30

Neurofeedback for mental and behavioural disorders – new results (David Linden)

17:15-18:00

17:30-17:45

Poster Prizes

17:45-18:00

Closing ceremony

18:00-18:15

17:30-20:00

18:15-18:30

Social event

18:30-18:45

(all conference attendees)

18:45-19:00

19:00-19:15

19:15-19:30

19:00-22:00

19:00-19:45

Organizational/Program Committee dinner

19:45-20:00

(invited attendees only)

20:00-20:15

20:15-20:30

20:30-20:45

20:45-21:00