The Great Western 4 Brain Stimulation Workshop was held 6 March
2013 at the
INNOVATION Centre at Carpenter House, a University of Bath
building located in the centre of Bath near the Bath Spa Rail
Station.
The goal of the workshop was to initiate and facilitate
communication and potential collaboration between groups in the
region that share interests in brain stimulation techniques. The
Department of Psychology at Bath has received funding recently to
acquire transcranial electrical stimulation equipment, hosted in
the Proulx Crossmodal Cognition Lab, but available for
collaborative use with other interested groups.
The day featured a keynote talk by Roi
Cohen Kadosh (Experimental Psychology, Oxford), who
discussed transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and
transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS). There was also a
featured talk by Christopher
Allen (Psychology, Cardiff) on transcranial magnetic
stimulation (TMS). There were also representatives from Magstim and Linton Instrumentation (the
distributor of Biopac Systems) who demonstrated their equipment
and answered questions during breaks and lunch.
Michael Proulx was the
primary organizer of the workshop. I would like to thank Jon
Brooks (Clinical Research and Imaging Centre, Bristol) for
his assistance in organizing the workshop, and the funding
provided by the EPSRC and the University of Bath.
