Dear All, I am pleased to announce that the next official SPM course covering fMRI/MRI/VBM will take place in London: Thursday 14th May to Saturday 16th May 2015. The course is organised by the Methods Group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging ("the FIL"), where SPM is developed. The three-day course will be divided into theoretical sessions covering experimental design and statistical inference and practical sessions in which SPM12 will be used to analyse exemplar data sets. This course is suitable for both beginners and more advanced users, with topics including image pre-processing, the general linear model (GLM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM). The course is held directly after the SPM for MEG/EEG course, which will be 11th -13th May at the same venue. Registration opens 9th March and places are strictly limited. If you would like an email reminder when registration opens, please add your email address here - https://spmcourses.typeform.com/to/W3VGTK . The programme for the course is below. Best, Peter. Peter Zeidman, PhD Methods Group Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging 12 Queen Square London WC1N 3BG [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Programme (provisional): Thursday 14th May 08:45 - 09:15 Registration and Coffee 09:15 - 09:30 Introduction to the Course 09:30 - 10:00 Overview of SPM 10:00 - 10:30 Pre-processing for fMRI - Theory 10:30 - 11:00 Pre-processing for fMRI - Demo Coffee 11:30 - 12:00 The General Linear Model 12:00 - 12:45 Contrasts and Classical Inference Lunch 13:45 - 14:15 Group Analysis 14:15 - 15:00 Random Field Theory & Alternatives Tea 15:30 - 16:15 Segmentation and VBM - Theory 16:15 - 17:00 Segmentation and VBM - Demo 17:00 - 18:00 "Questions and Answers" Clinic Friday 15th May 09:30 - 10:15 Experimental Design 10:15 - 11:00 Event-related fMRI - Theory Coffee 11:30 - 12:15 Event-related fMRI - Demo 12:15 - 13:00 Bayesian Inference Lunch 14:00 - 15:00 Dynamic Causal Modelling for fMRI Tea 15:30 - 16:30 DCM for fMRI - Advanced Topics 16:30 - 17:15 DCM for fMRI - Demo 17:15 - 18:00 "Questions and Answers" Clinic 18:30 - Social Event Saturday 16th May PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS 9:30 - 10:00 Introduction; Allocation of Groups 10:00 - 15:30 Parallel session in small groups covering: fMRI analyses (several groups depending on attendees' level of knowledge), Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM) and Dynamic causal modelling (DCM). Coffee 16:00 - 17:00 Workshop feedback presentations