| Association for Convulsive Therapy | 5/1998 |
Holly Lisanby, MD, writes: Several TMS-related talks were scheduled for the 8th Annual Association for Convulsive Therapy meeting - more details here. |
| Biological Psychiatry | 5/1998 |
The ISTS held a 'meeting within a meeting' at Biological Psychiatry (details here). |
| European Winter Conference on Brain Research | 3/1998 |
Walter Paulus writes: The 18th European Winter conference on Brain Research ran from Saturday March 7th to Saturday March 14th in St. Maurice in France. If anyone has any information from this conference, please forward it to the site author. |
| World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering | 9/1997 |
TMS featured in the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at Nice, France (September 14-19, 1997). |
| TMS conference: Switzerland | 3/1997 |
The second international TMS conference was held in Interlaken, Switzerland between August 11th-15th 1997. The program covered TMS basics, safety, psychiatric and neurological applications, physics and data analysis, and future directions; more details are available here. |
| Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Symposium | 5/1997 |
At the recent RANZCP 32nd congress in Sydney, a brief symposium on TMS and psychiatry was held on day 3. Speakers were Dr Colleen Loo, Professor Perminder Sachdev (Prince Henry Hospital), Professor Simon Gandevia (Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute), Professor Saxby Pridmore (Royal Hobart Hospital) and Matthew Kirkcaldie (University of Tasmania). |
| Technical workshop: Amsterdam | 10/1996 |
On October 30th 1996, a technical workshop on advances in magnetic stimulation was held in conjunction with the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The workshop, organized by Jan Nilsson and Ferdinando Grandori, comprised a full day program spanning neurophysiology, theoretical considerations and computational modelling of TMS. Details of the conference programme and a book published in conjunction with the workshop are available here. Photos of the conference are available from Risto Ilmoniemi's web-site (careful, it's quite an image-heavy page). |
| Puerto Rico | 1996 |
The 1996 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in Puerto Rico featured a "Study Group" (informal symposium) on TMS. If anyone has details of the meeting or its proceedings, please drop me a line! |
| Safety workshop: Bethesda | 6/1996 |
A small international meeting was held in Bethesda, Maryland on June 5th, 6th and 7th this year. Its purpose was to discuss safety issues related to research and clinical use of TMS and rTMS. A report on the conference by Saxby Pridmore is available here; a comprehensive article by Dr Eric Wassermann, based in part on the conference, is in preparation. |
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