Wednesday, 13 September

17.00 - 19.00
SAN Council Meeting/Committee Meetings: Training/Certification; Website/Publicity/Membership drive

19.00 - 20.00
Dinner

 

Thursday, 14 September

Workshops

9.00 – 12.30
Treatment of Fatigue & Related Physical Disorders. (Intm/Adv)
Lesley Parkinson

13.30 – 17.00
Transcranial Direct current stimulation (tDCS) as a method for cortical activation. (Intm/Adv)
Juri Kropotov

18.00 - 19.00
Dinner

20.00
Trainning/Certification Committee

Friday, 15 September

Workshops

9.00 – 12.30
SAN Training Module: Treatment Planning. (Intm)
Lesley Parkinson, Witze van der Zwaag, Berrie Gerrits

13.30 – 17.00
SAN Training Module: Legal & Professional Issues. (Intm)
Witze van der Zwaag, Berrie Gerrits

 9.00 – 17.00
A Data-Based Perspective on qEEG, Training EEG Oscillations, Learning, and Neurotherapy I. (Intm)
Barry Sterman

9.00 – 17.00
Technical Foundations of Neurofeedback. (Intro/Intm/Adv)
Tom Collura 

9.00 - 12.30
Fast For Word & Neurofeedback Training. No charge for workshop
John Kering, Catherine Ruckert

18.15 - 19.30
Dinner

Roundtables

19.30 – 20.30
Massed versus Distributed Training & NF Holiday
Discussants: Beverley Steffert, Tony Steffert, Juri Kropotov, Rien Breteler, Ute Strehl, Barry Sterman

20.30 – 21.30
Brain Injury
Lesley Parkinson, Jose Leon-Carrion, Berrie Gerrits, Dirk De Ridder, Doert Klein

Saturday, 16 September

12.30 - 13.30
Lunch 

Workshops

9.00 – 17.00
Assessment Dictates Intervention-Lessons from Clinical Experience-Anterior Cingulate,Thalamus, Beta Spindling, SMR, Slow Wave Excess, RSA: A Few of the Keys to Understanding Successful Intervention. (Intm)
Lynda Thompson, Michael Thompson

9.00 – 17.00
A Data-Based Perspective on qEEG, Training EEG Oscillations, Learning, and Neurotherapy II. (Intm)
Barry Sterman

16.00 - 17.00
Layman’s introduction to applications of advanced signal processing methods as they apply to Neurofeedback.
Marc Saab, Thought Techology

9.00 – 17.00 COST Biannual Meeting (for COST members)

Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST):  B27 Neuronal Electrical Oscillations & Cognition.(ENOC)
 
  8.30 -   9.00 Registration 
  9.00 - 10.00 COST Members update
10.00 - 10.30 Break
10.30 - 12.30 Collaborative COST Research Topics
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 16.00 Management Committee Meeting

17.00 - 18.00  SAN Welcome Reception

18.00 - 18.45
Dinner

19:00 - 21:00 Sessions [Symposium & Roundtable in parallel]

Symposium: Peak Performance I.

Chair John Gruzelier

19.30 – 19.55 
Simultaneous EEG and EMG Biofeedback for Peak Performance in Musicians.
Nada Pop-Jordanova, Olga M. Bazanova, Dejan Georgiev, Anna Kondratenko, Oleg Kondratenko, Silvana Markovska-Simoska, Jeugenia Mernaya

19.55 – 20.20
EEG-neurofeedback training of elite singers including fMRI assessments.
Boris Kleber, John Gruzelier, Martin Lotze, Niels Birbaumer

20.20 – 20.45
Neurofeedback Peak Performance Training in Microsurgery: A controlled study.
Tomas Ros, Philip Bloom, Larry Benjamin, Merrick Moseley, John Gruzelier

19.45 – 20.10
Neurofeedback efficiency increases by using individual EEG alpha activity peculiarities.
Bazanova Olga M, Aftanas Lubomir

20.10 – 20.35
Reliable evidence of trained heightened sensory perception in children to include EEG assessment.
Sung-Woon Kim, Dong-Pyo Jang, Ul-Soon Lee, Zang-Hee Cho, Seung-Heun Lee

19.30 – 21.35
Roundtable: Clinical Cases, Innovative & Multimodal Approaches.

Coordinator Lynda Thompson
Discussants: Mark Jenson, Doerte Klein, Lesley Parkinson, Michael Thompson, Juri Kropotov, Marco Congedo

21.40
SAN Postgraduates' Dinner
Coordinator Leslie Sherlin

Sunday, 17 September

9:00 – 10:00 Keynote

Efficacy of attention training for children with ADHD: A randomised doubl-blind placebo-controlled study.
Roger deBeus
Chair John Gruzelier

10.00 – 10.25
Break

10.25 – 12.30 Sessions [2 In Parallel]

Symposium I. Childhoood Disorders & Treatment

Chair Michael Thompson

10.25 – 10.50
Autistic Spectrum Disorders including Asperger's Syndrome-EEG & QEEG Findings, Results, & Neurophysiological Rationale for Success using NFB Training
Michael Thompson, Lynda Thompson

10.50 – 11.15
Subtypes of children with ADHD as revealed by a new QEEG, ERP data base.
Juri Kropotov

11.15 – 11.40
A controlled comparison of EEG-neurofeedback and attention training for children with ADHD.
Tony Steffert, Martin Batty, Annie Frick, Malcolm Hawken, Claire Sturge, Katherine Loveday, John Gruzelier.

11.40 – 12.05
An evidence based hypnotic intervention in the management of paediatric procedure-related pain.
Christina Liossi

12.05 – 12.30
Efficacy of EEG-neurofeedback in speech/language deficits related to mental retardation: 25 cases.
Tanju Surmeli, Ayben Ertem

Symposium II. EEG Methods

Chair Marco Congedo

10.25 – 10.50
Classification of movement intention by spatially filtered electromagnetic inverse solutions
Marco Congedo

10.50 – 11.15
Brain-rate as a Complementary Diagnostic Indicator and Biofeedback Parameter
Jordan Pop-Jordanov, Nada Pop-Jordanova

11.15 -11.40
Estimation differential training of synchronous EEG activity using channel recombination and joint-time frequency analysis.
Thomas F. Collura

11.40 – 12.05
Estimation of the circular mean resultant length.
Walter R. Gruber

12.05 – 12.30
Methods for detection of hidden changes in EEG
Hiie Hinrikus, Maie Bachmann, Jaan Kalda, Maksim Sakki, Jaanus Lass, Ruth Tomson

12.30 – 13.30
Lunch

13.30 – 14.30 Keynote:

fMRI-Neurofeedback.
Niels Birbaumer
Chair Juri Kropotov

14:30 – 15:45 Sessions [3 in parallel]

Symposium I. Peak Performance II.

Chair Edwin Verstraeten

14.30 – 14.55
SMR Neurofeedback Training and Sleep Quality in Normal Sleepers: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study.
Edwin Verstraeten, Joram Bosman, Kurt Van Steenwinckel

14.55 – 15.20
Effective Stress Management Using Neurofeedback and Biofeedback.
Lynda Thompson, Michael Thompson

15.20 – 15.45
Relaxation strategies and enhancement of hypnotic susceptibility: neurofeedback, self-hypnosis and progressive muscle relaxation.
John Gruzelier, Samantha Bonnington, Bo-Kim Tang, Malcolm Hawken, Martin Batty.

Symposium II. Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy.

Symposium Organizer:  Jose Leon-Carrion

14.30 – 14.55
Dissociating the hemodynamic course of affective dimensions in the dorslateral prefrontal cortex.
Jose Leon-Carrion

14.55 – 15.20
Persistence of evoked activation in the prefrontal cortex after viewing religious images: Religious feeling is a hot emotion.
Juan Francisco Martin Rodriguez

15.20 – 15.45
Hemodynamic course of cerebral blood oxygenation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in response to a strong visual sexual stimulus.
Jesus Damas Lopez

15.45 – 16.10
The application of Near-Infrared-Spectroscopy (NIRS) for future Brain-Computer-Interfaces
S. Wriessnegger, R. Leeb, C. Neuper, G. Pfurtscheller

14.30 – 15.45 Symposium III. Reversing Academic Failure: Presentation/Question & Answer.

Organiser Catherine Ruckert

Catherine J. Ruckert, Maria Kroll-Buchholtz

Coffee/Tea served from 15.45 

15.45 – 16.45 Posters  

[Posters will remain up during conference]

Neurofeedback and enhanced performance: The plethora and the paucity.
David Vernon

The use of alpha neurofeedback training to enhance mental rotation performance.
David Vernon, Emily Withycombe

Visual biofeedback systems based on biochemical reactions' discrete chaotic dynamics.
Gontar, V., Grechko, O.

Can neurofeedback have a positive effect on poor sleep quality in chronic schizophrenia patients: a preliminary study based on 4 successive cases.
Aisha Cortoos, Edwin Verstraeten,  Jeroen Joly, Raymond Cluydts, Marc De Hert,  Jozef Peuskens

Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, anxious rumination and neural activity.
Soren Bo Andersen, Roger Moore,  Philip Corr, Louise Venables

Neural Activity During a Verbal Memory Task; Parameters for Individually Adapted Neurofeedback Training.
Stig Hollup, Linda Thorsen, Knut Hestad, Juri Kropotov

Neural Activity During a Mental Rotation Task; Parameters for Individually Adapted Neurofeedback Training.
Stig Hollup, Alexander Olsen, Knut Hestad, Juri Kropotov

Inverse mapping solution of MUAPs overlays by an intelligent system using surface electromyogram.
Firoozabadi, S.M.P.,  Maghooli, K,. Badie, K.

Bi-polar and tri-polar TENS effects on the fractal parameters in human H-reflex.
Amirhossein Kazerani Farahani, S.M.P. Firoozabadi, Giti Torkaman,   Alireza Sarmadi

Controlled study of neurofeedback with novice singers.
Joe Leach, Kate Bulpin, Shama Khan, Alexander Rass, Tomas Chammoro-Premuzic, Claire Nelson, John Gruzelier.

Frontal midline theta during the aiming period of rifle shooters.
Michael Doppelmayr, Finkenzeller, T.

A controlled comparison of Johrei versus self-hypnosis/visualization training for early stage HIV.
Akira Naito, Tannis Laidlaw, Bryan Bennett, Prabuddha Dwivedi, Don Henderson, John Gruzelier

Comparison of quantitative and model-based EEG spectral measures.
von Albada, S.J., Rennie, C.J., Robinson, P.A.

Source Specific Analyses of Gamma Power and Evoked Activity in Picture Perception.
Roman Freunberger, Wolfgang Klimesch, Paul Sauseng

Time structure of EEG-based cursor control in a brain-computer interface (BCI) using machine classification methods.
Baljon, P.L., Shomaker, L.

Effects of transcutaneous electrical acupuncture on cognitive event related potentials in normals.
Chen, M.J.L., Chen, C.P.C., Wu, T., Tang, S.F.T.

End-tidal CO2 based visual feedback method in therapy of respiratory disturbances in stuttering, Bogdan Adamczyk, Krzysztof Zielinski, Marek Darowski.
Barbara Stankiewicz

Reduction of noise annoyance by breathing manoeuvres.
Patricia Bellinghausen

16.45 - 17.45 SAN AGM

18.00
Departure Gower Peninsula Sightseeing and Dinner

Monday, 18 September

9.00 – 10.00 Keynote:

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): A new old tool in neurotherapy.
Juri Kropotov
Chair Barry Sterman

10.00 – 10.30
Break

10.30 – 12.35 Sessions [2 in parallel]

10.30 – 12.25 Symposium: Characterising Subtypes

Chair Tanju Surmeli

10.30 – 10.55
Transcend the DSM using Phenotypes (30 min)
Jay Gunkelman

10.55 – 11.20
Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (LORETA) in Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
Leslie Sherlin, Thomas Budzynski,  Helen Kogan Budzynski,  Marco Congedo

11.20 – 11.45
A QEEG-based tool for differential assessment of functional outcome in acquired brain injury: A validation study.
Jose Leon-Carrion, Jesus Damas Lopez, Juan Francisco Rodriguez, Maria del Rosario Domínguez Morales

11.45 – 12.10
Sleep states, autonomic control and psychoemotional status
Giedrius Varoneckas

12.10 - 12.35
QEEG Prediction of the Evolution of Dementia in Normal Elderly.
Leslie Prichep, James Halper,  E. Roy John.

10.30 – 12.35 Symposium:  EEG and Cognition

Chair Jordan Popjordanov

10.30 – 10.55
Neural correlates of cognitive performance.
Michael Doppelmayr, Wolfgang Klimesch

10.55 – 11.20
Theta circuitry and implications for peak performance.
John Gruzelier

11.20 – 11.45
Oscillatory phase synchronization: A brain mechanism of memory matching and attention
Paul Sauseng, Wolfgang Klimesch, Walter R. Grube, Niels Birbaumer

11.45 – 12.10
Bispectral analysis of the EEG: what does it add to the state versus nonstate debate in hypnosis?
Adrian Burgess and Helen Crawford

12.10 – 12.35
Physical properties of the thalamocortical neurons that are optimal for mental health and cognitive performance.
David L. Robinson

12.35 – 14.00
Lunch

SAN Council/Committee

14.00 – 15.45 Sessions [2 in parallel]

15.15 – 15.45
Break

Symposium:  Treatment I.

Chair Jay Gunkleman

14.00 – 14.25
Theta/low-beta neurofeedback protocol for rehabilitation of severe acquired brain injury patients.
Francisco Rodriguez, Jose Leon-Carrion, Jesus Damas Lopez, Maria del Rosario Domínguez Morales,  Juan Manuel Barroso Martin

14.25 – 14.50
Multimodal micro-progress in longtime treatment with a stroke patient with semiparesis – a single case study.
Doerte Klein

14.50 – 15.15
Transcranial magnetic and intracranial electrical stimulation for phantom perception suppression.
Dirk De Ridder, Lien Van Der Kelen, Edwin Verstraeten, Gert De Mulder, Stefan Sunaert, Silvia Kovacs,  Paul Van de Heyning

15.15 – 15.45
Neurofeedback treatment for chronic pain
Mark Jensen, Caroline Grierson, Veronika Tracy-Smith, Stacy Caron, Siegfried Othmer

14.00 – 15.45
Symposium: Virtual Reality& Consciousness.

Organiser Mel Slater

Presence in Virtual Reality
Mel Slater

Understanding Perception and Consciousness Through Virtual Reality
Maria V. Sanchez Vives

Using a Brain Computer Interface in Highly Immersive Virtual Reality
Doron Friedman


15.45 – 16.15
Break

16.15 – 17.35 Rountable

Clinical-Academic Research Coordination.
Coordinator David Vernon
Doete Klein, Lesley Parkinson, Beverley Steffert, Lynda Thompson

19.30 –  22.00
Conference Dinner

Tuesday, 19 September

9.00 – 12.45 Sessions [3 in parallel]

9.00 - 10.00 Keynote:

Clinical Applications of QEEG-guided treatrment.
E. Roy John presented by James Halper


10.00 – 10.30
Break

10.30 – 11.30 Roundtable.sLORETA - Tomographic Analysis and Feedback. 
Coordinator Leslie Sherlin
Discussants Marco Congedo, Juri Kropotov.

 10.30 – 11.45 Symposium I: Treatment II.

Chair Mark Jensen

10.30 – 10.55
Hypnotic Analgesia for Chronic Pain in Persons with Disabilities
Mark Jensen, Marisol Hanley, Joyce Engel, Joan Romano, Joseph Barber, Diana Cardenas, George Kraft, Amy Hoffman, Dave Patterson

10.55 – 11.20
QEEG-Neurometric analysis guided neurofeedback treatment in schizophrenia : 40 case studies.
Tanju Surmeli

11.20 – 11.45
Electrical somatosensory stimulation for tinnitus: More cross-modal inhibition?
Dirk De Ridder, Elsa van der Loo, Silvia Kovacs, Stefan Sunaert, Paul van de Heyning


Symposium II: New Practitioner Methodology
Chair Martijn Arns

10.30 – 11.00
Real-life neurofeedback: a catalyst of regular neurofeedback approaches through classical conditioning in task-related environments.
Michiel Klein Nijenhuis, Martijn Arns, John Rijpma, Rien Breteler

11.00 – 11.30
The usability of Tele-neurofeedback: procedures, conditions and results.
Rien Breteler, Sabine de Ridder, Anne de Monsuwe, Martijn Arns.

11:45 – 12:45 Keynote

The Pause that Refreshes:  EEG Rhythms and Learning.
Barry Sterman
Chair Niels Birbaumer

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