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May 2013

Louise Marshall and Archy de Berker have started their lab rotations!

Sven will speak at the Aalto TMS symposium in Helsinki on the 17th.

April 2013

Sven to give the keynote lecture at this year's British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience meeting in Nottingham, on "Action selection"


Feb 2013

New paper "Combined neurostimulation and neuroimaging in cognitive neuroscience: past, present and future" accepted for publication in Annals of the New York Academy of Science, by Bestmann S & Feredoes E


Jan 2013

Miriam's paper ""Variability of human cortico-spinal excitability tracks the state of action preparation" by Klein-Flugge M, Nobbs D, Pitcher J, Bestmann S has been accepted in the Journal of Neuroscience


Jan 2013

Book chapter "Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and Neuroimaging: Novel Ways of Assessing Causal Relationships in Brain Networks" by O'Shea, Thut and Bestmann, has been published in "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation" of the Frontiers in Neuroscience Series, Eds. Miniussi, Paulus, Rossini.

Joe's new paper accepted in the Journal of Neuroscience: "Punishment induced behavioural and neurophysiological variability reveals dopamine-dependent selection of kinematic movement parameters" by Galea J, Ruge D, Buijink A, Bestmann S, Rothwell JC.


Dec 2012

14th Departmental Christmas party!!!! Don't plan anything the day after!

7th Sven attends the 1st Annual meeting of the Young Academy of Europe (http://www.yacadeuro.org/index.htm)

Nov 2012

New paper entitled "Muscle and timing-specific functional connectivity between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the primary motor cortex" accepted in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, by Hasan, Galea, Casula, Falkai, Bestmann, Rothwell.

Bastian Soehnchen from Maastricht University joined our lab for 9 months

Oct 2012

Sven will attend this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans. He will present Miriam's poster "Variability of cortico-spinal excitability tracks the preparatory state of human motor cortex"Poster number 890.15, MM3**, Wednesday 3-4pm

26-29th Reatreat time. This year in the lovely Pyrenees mountains!!!!!!

23rd Sven will give a lecture at the Donders Centre in Nijmegen, on "Mechanisms for turning decisions into actions"

4th Sven will speak at the Foundation of Human Social Behaviour seminar series, University of Zurich, about "Mechanisms for turning decisions into actions"


Sept 2012
17-20th Sven to give two lectures at the III International Symposium on Neuromodulation, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

New paper accepted in the Journal of Neuroscience, entitled "Left dorsal premotor cortex and supramarginal gyrus complement each other during rapid action reprogramming" by Hartwigsen, Bestmann, Ward, Woerbel, Mastroeni, Granert, Siebner


August 2012
16-17th Sven is speaking at the "Motivation and Action" ESF workshop, in Copenhagen. His talk is entitled "Decisions for valuable actions shape action representations"


June 2012
Sven will talk on "Dopamine and Action Sequences" at the first Free Energy Principle workshop, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, London.


May 2012
12-13th Magstim Neuroscience Conference and Workshop will take place in Oxford. For details, please click here


Miriam's paper "Time-dependent changes in human cortico-spinal excitability reveal value-based competition for action during decision processing", by Klein-Flugge M, Bestmann S has been accepted in Journal of Neuroscience

April 2012

20-21st: See our joint UCL-JHU workshop "Unresolved questions in motor control"

Programme and registration are here: http://ucljhu.eventbrite.com/

March 2012

Dorothea Haemmerer from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development has joined our lab for 6 months.


November 2011

Sven and Miriam will be attending this years Society for Neuroscience Conference in Washington, DC.

New paper accepted in Journal of Neuroscience - "Action reprogramming in Parkinson's disease: response to prediction error is modulated by levels of dopamine", by Galea J*, Bestmann S*, Beigi M, Jahanshahi M, Rothwell JC. * equal contribution

New paper "Dopamine, affordance and active inference", by Friston, Shiner, Fitzgerald, Galea, Adams, Brown, Dolan, Moran, Stephan, and Bestmann accepted in PLoS Computational Biology.


October 2011

New article "Relationship between physiological measures of excitability and levels of glutamate and GABA in the human motor cortex" by Stagg, Bestmann, Constantinescu, MorenoMoreno, Allman, Mekle, Woolrich, Near, Johansen-Berg, and Rothwell accepted in Journal of Physiology

New paper "Corticomotor representation to human arm muscle changes following cervical spinal cord injury" by Freund, Rothwell, Craggs, Thompson, Bestmann now in press in European Journal of Neuroscience


September 2011

New Post-doc, Alessandro Tomassini, has started in our lab, funded through an ERC Starter grant.

New paper "Active inference, attention, and motor preparation" by Brown, Friston, and Bestmann published in Frontiers Psychology

25-29th Sven, Ana and Friederike will be attending the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) in Mallorca, Spain


July 2011 

1st Friederike and Ana will be presenting posters at the UCL Neuroscience Symposium


June 2011

24-25th Sven and Miriam will be attending the "The 2nd North America Meeting on Neuroimaging and Brain Stimulation" in Quebec City, Canada. Sven will speak about concurrent TMS and fMRI.
The meeting will take place just before the annual Human Brain Mapping meeting (OHBM), which will also be in Quebec

26-30th Sven and Miriam will be attending HBM in Quebec City, Canada. Miriam is presenting in the Symposium on "Decision Making" on Monday 27th (5:30-7:00pm, #2156) and her poster is #368WTh (Wed 29th-Thu 30th)


May 2011

26th Sven is giving a seminar on action selection and biased competition at the Laboratory for Clinical Neuroscience Centre for Biomedical Technology, Madrid, Spain


April 2011

29th April-1st May Workshop "Sixth Scientific Workshop on "Combining brain Imaging techniques" at which Sven will present

Helen Barron started her rotation in our lab as part of her 4 year MRC-funded PhD (until June 2011)


March 2011

24th-25th Sven will talk at the "Scientific workshop on multimodal transcranial magnetic stimulation in the study of brain and cognition" meeting, in Helsinki, Finland (Programme here)

18th Sven to speak at the "55. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Klinische Neurophysiologie und Funktionelle Bildgebung" in Muenster, Germany (Programme here)


November 2010

See us at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego:

16th - Friederike to present her poster "Independent contribution of GABAa and GABAb mediated inhibition during action preparation in man". 10-11AM. Poster number: 592.3

15th - Miriam to present her poster "Dissociating action-linked decisions from abstract value-based decisions in intra-parietal cortex" 11-12AM, Poster number: 401.12/LLL33

14th - Sven to speak at the mini-Symposium "Functional Modulation of the Primary Motor Cortex: From Animal Models to Clinical Applications". Speakers are Andy Jackson, Giacomo Koch, Monica Perez, Matthias Wahl, Zhen Ni, and Sven Bestmann

October 2010

29th - Sven to give a talk at the 29th International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology, Kobe, Japan (Programme here)

8th - Sven will speak at the "Recent Advances in Brain Stimulation" meeting in Montreal, Canada (Programme here)


September 2010

16-19th - Miriam will be at Neuroscience Student Conference in Split, Croatia


August 2010

Friederike will visit the lab of Lawrence Maloney in NYC for a period of three months. Her trip is sponsored through a Bogue Fellowship.

See also our Special Issue on "Cognitive Control, Uncertainty, and the Brain" in Frontiers Human Neuroscience


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