News

2026

  • Oct 2026 · Paper: Momi et al., Biological Psychiatry. Excitation-inhibition balance and fronto-limbic connectivity distinguish TMS treatment outcomes in refractory depression. More
  • Sep 2026 · Paper: Momi et al., Molecular Psychiatry. Neurophysiological signatures of Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy in treatment-resistant depression. More
  • Jul 2026 · Preprint: Tian et al. on unifying transcranial focused ultrasound and TMS plasticity effects with calcium-dependent plasticity theory. More
  • Apr 2026 · Paper: Ismail et al., Nature Communications. Developmental disinhibition gates language lateralization in childhood. More
  • 2026 · JG gives a keynote at the Brain Connectivity Workshop (Nîmes, France) and an invited talk at OCNS (Halifax, Canada).
  • 2026 · JG leads the organization of the inaugural fNIRS-Toronto meeting.

2025

  • Dec 2025 · JG talk at the Fields Institute Workshop on Multiscale Modelling and Emergence in Neural and Cognitive Sciences, which he co-organized.
  • Oct 2025 · JG talk on concurrent fNIRS-EEG at the West-fNIRS conference (Western University), which he co-organized.
  • Sep 2025 · Kevin Kadak successfully defends his PhD. Congratulations Dr. Kadak!
  • Aug 2025 · Sorenza Bastiaens successfully defends her PhD. Congratulations Dr. Bastiaens!
  • Aug 2025 · Preprint: Bastiaens et al. on corticothalamic mechanisms of regional and ageing variations in resting alpha. More
  • Jul 2025 · Paper: Griffiths & Kadak, Clinical Neurophysiology. Towards a mathematical theory of rTMS-induced neural plasticity. More
  • Jun 2025 · Preprint: Kadak et al. on alpha rhythm subharmonics and theta burst stimulation. More
  • Jun 2025 · OHBM 2025, Brisbane: we run the Neural Field Theory for Whole-Brain Modelling educational course, co-organize the symposium Brain Network Modelling for Human Brain Mapping, and JG speaks on the history of neural field theory. Course
  • Apr 2025 · JG’s Fields Institute Introduction to Mathematical Neuroscience lecture series wraps up. All lectures are online. Lectures
  • Apr 2025 · Three papers out in one week: Momi et al. in Nature Communications (More), Morshedzadeh et al. in Sleep (More), and Bastiaens et al. in PLoS Computational Biology (More).
  • 2025 · JG leads the organization of the 19th BrainModes conference in Toronto, and co-leads the Fields Institute Thematic Program on the Mathematics of Neuroscience.
  • 2025 · We co-organize a symposium on mathematical modelling of brain-stimulation-induced plasticity at the 6th International Brain Stimulation Conference (Kobe, Japan).
  • 2025 · JG invited talks at the University of Cambridge, City University of London, the Whistler Scientific Workshop, and QIMR Berghofer (Brisbane).

2024

  • Dec 2024 · Parsa Oveisi successfully defends his Master’s thesis. Congratulations Parsa!
  • Sep 2024 · Shreyas Harita successfully defends his PhD. Congratulations Dr. Harita!
  • Jun 2024 · OHBM 2024, Seoul: we run the Whole-brain, Connectome-based Models of Brain Dynamics educational course and co-organize the symposium Advancements in Brain Stimulation Modeling, with talks from JG and Davide Momi. Course
  • May 2024 · Andrew Clappison successfully defends his Master’s thesis (University of Ottawa). Congratulations Andrew!
  • Mar 2024 · Taha Morshedzadeh successfully defends his Master’s thesis. Congratulations Taha!
  • Mar 2024 · Preprints: Harita et al. on inhibition and resting-state fMRI negative correlations (More), and Oveisi et al. on HD-DOT TD-fNIRS reliability (More).
  • 2024 · JG invited talk at the Center for Neural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University.

2023

  • Jul 2023 · OHBM 2023, Montreal: we run our first OHBM educational course, Whole-brain, Connectome-based Models of Brain Dynamics, and co-organize a symposium on connectome-based modelling of brain stimulation. Course
  • Apr 2023 · Paper: Momi et al., eLife. TMS-evoked responses are driven by recurrent large-scale network dynamics. More
  • Apr 2023 · Paper: Mazza et al., PLoS Computational Biology. In-silico EEG biomarkers of reduced inhibition in depression. More
  • 2023 · Davide Momi presents our TMS-EEG modelling work at the 5th International Brain Stimulation Conference (Lisbon) and the Whistler Scientific Workshop.
  • Jan 2023 · JG invited talk at The Royal Ottawa speaker series.

2022

  • Oct 2022 · Editorial: Griffiths, Shen & Gleeson, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics research topic on neuroinformatics of large-scale brain modelling. More
  • Jun 2022 · Paper: Harita et al., Frontiers in Psychiatry. Mapping inter-individual functional connectivity variability in TMS targets for depression. More
  • May 2022 · Preprint: Griffiths et al. on deep-learning-based parameter estimation for neurophysiological models. More
  • 2022 · Book chapter: Griffiths et al., Whole-Brain Modelling: Past, Present, and Future. More
  • 2022 · We co-organize the 3rd Canadian Computational Neuroscience Spotlight and the 7th Brainhack Toronto.

2021

  • Sep 2021 · Frank Mazza successfully defends his Master’s thesis. Congratulations Frank!
  • 2021 · We co-organize a symposium on connectome-based network modelling of brain stimulation at the 4th International Brain Stimulation Conference (Charleston, USA), and JG speaks at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society symposium on computational M/EEG modelling.
  • 2021 · We co-organize the 2nd Canadian Computational Neuroscience Spotlight and the 6th Brainhack Toronto.

2020

  • Dec 2020 · Paper: Griffiths et al., Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. A connectome-based corticothalamic model of state- and stimulation-dependent rhythms. More
  • 2020 · JG invited talk at the OCNS annual meeting (virtual) on modelling rTMS-induced EEG alpha suppression in depression.
  • 2020 · We co-organize the 1st Canadian Computational Neuroscience Spotlight and the 5th Brainhack Toronto.

2019

  • 2019 · The Whole-Brain Modelling Group opens at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, CAMH.
  • 2019 · Book chapter: Griffiths & Lefebvre on dynamic and control-theoretic perspectives on periodic brain stimulation. More
  • 2019 · JG invited talk at the OCNS annual meeting (Barcelona).