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We are delighted to announce the upcoming Global Brain Consortium (GBC) Annual Meeting from September 6th to 8th, 2024, held in Chengdu, China. This event is in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Electroencephalogram (EEG) by Hans Berger. There are two modalities for this event, in-person and virtual. Please follow the link for more information.

Dr. Michael Breakspear delivered the Vera Gross lecture on The Wave-Particle Theory of Brain Dynamics. This lecture was held in conjuction with the annual assembly of the Global Brain Consortium on September 6, 2024. Dr. Breakspear is a Psychiatrist and Neuroscientist researching the principles of brain function in health and in mental illness. Professor Breakspear leads the Systems Neuroscience Group – a team of psychiatrists, physicists, psychologists and neuroimaging scientists at the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Australia. He uses computational modelling to study the generative processes underlying bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia and in healthy ageing. Follow the link to YouTube to watch the recording.

qEEG tools in CBRAIN presented at OHBM 2024, Seoul, Korea on July 8th, 2024. Developed as part of the Global EEG Norms project of the Global Brain Consortium, this project takes advantage of the computer resources available at Brain Compute Canada. Follow the link to see this course which includes steps on how to prepare data and run qEEG facilities on CBRAIN.

This event was held in Seoul, Korea on June 23rd, 2024, from 9am to 5:30pm KST. Featured speakers were Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Maria Bringas-Vega, Alan Evans, and Qing Wang. Follow the link to find out more.

This virtual meeting was held on May 23rd, 2024, at 11am EDT. This event featured presentations by Alan Evans, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Jorge Bosch-Bayard, Christine Rogers, Sid Segalowitz, Philippe Albouy, Sarah Lippé, and Faisal Mushtaq. Follow the link to YouTube to watch the recording.