<div dir="ltr">Roberto, great point. Have we gone too cerebro-centric ? Shall we replace BrainHack by NeuroHack ?? Only time will tell.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Pierre Bellec, PhD<br><div>Researcher / Chercheur, Research Centre of the Montreal Geriatric Institute</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-03-30 5:19 GMT-04:00 rbrto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robertotoro@gmail.com" target="_blank">robertotoro@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
sounds good!<br>
<br>
in addition to the brain and the spinal cord, there's also the enteric<br>
nervous system (for the gut feelings?). Anyone for a guthack? that way<br>
we would have it all covered :D<br>
<br>
"The enteric nervous system consists of some one hundred million<br>
neurons, one thousandth of the number of neurons in the brain, and<br>
essentially equal to the one hundred million neurons in the spinal<br>
cord. The enteric nervous system is embedded in the lining of the<br>
gastrointestinal system, beginning in the esophagus and extending down<br>
to the anus."<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
roberto<br>
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On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Pierre Bellec<br>
<<a href="mailto:pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca">pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear neurobureau,<br>
><br>
> I have been contacted by Dr Paul Summers, who is organizing an interesting<br>
> spin of the brainhack concept: spinal cord hack. It's going to be a<br>
> satellite of ISMRM and, as the name indicates, is like brainhack but for<br>
> spinal cord. I have copied the summary of the event below. Dr Summers would<br>
> like the post to be added to <a href="http://brainhack.org" target="_blank">brainhack.org</a>, as well as the neurobureau site<br>
> / FB page. From every discussion I've had so far, it seemed that everybody<br>
> liked the idea of having a variety of spin-off of the brainhack concept<br>
> (which was itself a spin-off of generic hackatons), and include them in<br>
> <a href="http://brainhack.org" target="_blank">brainhack.org</a> as much as possible. Please get in touch if you have<br>
> comments/concerns about this initiative. Best,<br>
><br>
> Pierre<br>
><br>
> Spinal Cord Hack 2014<br>
><br>
> To follow close on the ISMRM meeting in Milan, we are inviting<br>
> participants to the first spinal cord hacking event. This half day event<br>
> will take place near the conference venue on Friday May 16th, 2014 with<br>
> the support of the International Spinal Research Trust. Our priorities are<br>
> to introduce the many challenges facing spinal cord MR imaging researchers<br>
> to coders and researchers with the interest and skills to pursue<br>
> solutions. Following a look at the software solutions currently available<br>
> and their limitations, the participants will have the chance to get down<br>
> to it in smaller groups to hack and discuss the future of spinal cord MRI.<br>
> The work themes are expected to touch on, but are not limited to: motion<br>
> correction of low feature images, functional - structural registration,<br>
> group space generation and atlasing, defining practices for existing<br>
> tools, setting image quality requirements for spinal cord fMRI, DTI and<br>
> other I's,<br>
> validation of statistical assumptions in the context of spinal cord fMRI,<br>
> SEEP - BOLD bun fight, and damning or damned by physiological noise.<br>
><br>
> If interested in participating, contributing data, code or other, please<br>
> contact <a href="mailto:paul.summers@unimore.it">paul.summers@unimore.it</a>.<br>
><br>
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