Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (CNBS)
Optimizing and applying noninvasive brain stimulation to health care and research

Training & Education

Education also is an important part of our mission. The CNBS is an integral part of the NIH-supported Research Training in Cognitive Neurology Program, a joint venture of the Behavioral Neurology Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. The program spans up to three years and consists of a combination of course work in clinical resrearch, cognitive neuroscience, brain mapping techniques, transcranial magentic stimulation, clinical training in cognitive and behavioral neurology, and hands on research. The course work takes place at the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, The Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Youville Hospital, Dartmouth College, and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. For more information click here.

Intensive Course in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

CNBS offers a one-week long intensive course in non-invasive brain stimulation three times per year: in February, July, and October. The Mini-Fellowship is conducted in small groups with formal teaching sessions and ample practical exposure offering a unique opportunity for hands-on learning of the basic principles, standards of use, and potential applications of TMS in clinical neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry. At the end of the course participants will have learned and directly experienced how to determine motor threshold, how to record motor evoked potentials, how to conduct cortical mapping, silent period, input-output curve, and paired-pulse TMS studies, and how to safely apply repetitive TMS. Participants will have also learned how to design TMS studies, write TMS protocols and interpret findings of TMS studies. To participate in the TMS training course, please send a registration form with payment by mail. Contact information is available on the registration form.  Click here to download the registration form.