Join your colleagues from around the world for a wide variety of learning opportunities in 2025 and 2026. Registration is free for IBIA and affiliated organization members and $25 for non-members. We look forward to welcoming you to the 2025 & 2026 IBIA Webinar Series. All webinar registrants will receive a recording of the webinar several days after the live event.
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Upcoming Webinars
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Recent Webinars
A Mechanistically Informed tDCS Intervention to Restore Behavioural Responsiveness in Disorders of Consciousness
Speaker: Davinia Fernández-Espejo, PhD
Date and Time: January 21, 2026, 11 AM ET
Organized by Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group.
Session Summary:
It is now well accepted that a significant percentage of patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC) are aware despite the lack of external responses contributing to their clinical diagnosis. Even when some of these patients retain a high level of cognitive functioning, there are limited therapeutic options to improve their long-term outcomes. In this webinar I will present a proposed mechanistic hypothesis to explain this ‘cognitive motor dissociation’ and how we have used it to develop a non-invasive brain stimulation intervention to restore external responsiveness in PDOC patients.
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Fear Avoidance and Persisting Symptoms after Concussion
Speakers: Noah Silverberg, PhD, R.Psych, ABPP-CN
Date and Time: November 13, 2025, 1 PM ET
Organized by Concussion-mTBI Special Interest Group.
Session Summary:
In the days after concussion, sensory stimulation and over-exertion can trigger symptom flair-ups. These episodes can be scary and avoiding them is adaptive. However, if avoidance behaviour becomes excessive, generalized, and prolonged, it can interfere with concussion recovery and perpetuate fear. This talk will review theory and evidence for fear avoidance as a risk factor for persisting symptoms following concussion and approaches to treating excessive avoidance.
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Presentation of Prolonged DOC Center’s International Map Project, First Results and Future Directions
Speaker: Simona Ferioli, MD
Date and Time: November 5, 2025, 9 AM EDT
Organized by Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group.
Session Summary:
This webinar will present the findings of the Disorders of Consciousness Program Project that created an international map of centers of care for prolonged DOC, which was launched in 2022 with the help of many DOC SIG members. The recently published results of the project’s first phase along with the first version of the map will be discussed.
More info on this specific project and the interactive map can be found here on the IBIA Website: click here.
Registration - DoC WebinarSensorimotor Disruption and ACL Injury Susceptibility After Concussion: A Female-Specific Neuromechanical Model
Speakers: Melissa Anderson, PhD and Abby Baldwin, PT, DPT
Date and Time: October 8, 2025, 12 PM EDT
Organized by Concussion-mTBI Special Interest Group.
Session Summary:
Dr. Anderson and Dr. Baldwin will discuss the increased risk of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in female athletes after sport-related concussions (SRC), focusing on the neurophysiological and biomechanical factors that contribute to this higher risk. They will also review an intervention study they conducted to strengthen the deep neck flexors with a collegiate women's soccer team.
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A Perspective to Assessing Subjective Experience in Patients with a Disorder of Consciousness
Speaker: Jitka Annen, MSc, PhD
Date and Time: October 1, 2025, 9 AM EDT/3 PM CEST
Organized by Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group.
Session Summary:
In this webinar, there will be a brief overview of the current state-of-the-art approaches for assessing patients with disorders of consciousness. One of the most pressing open questions remains whether—and in what way—these patients are capable of feeling. Although this challenge may seem insurmountable in non-communicating individuals, the webinar will outline several potential avenues, particularly those involving brain–body interactions, that may offer a starting point. As will be discussed, some approaches could refine diagnostic accuracy, others may provide insights into patients’ subjective experiences, and still others might inspire new, more holistic treatment strategies.
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Machine Learning Applications for Disorders of Consciousness Diagnosis and Prognosis in Paediatrics
Speaker: Erika Molteni, MSc, PhD
Date and Time: June 18, 2025, 12 PM EDT
Organized by Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group.
Session Summary:
This contribution examines and discusses the current state of machine learning (ML) employment in paediatric Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) research. ML has proven valuable in the research on DoC for diagnostic classification, prognostic staging, and endotyping in adults and elderlies. However, the use of ML for DoC research in paediatrics is still in its nascent stage. This contribution begins with a brief review of the existing literature, and highlights the few advancements made in ML research for the diagnosis and prognosis of paediatric DoC. In the second part, some technical considerations are discussed, specific to the future use of ML in paediatric DoC research. The discussion encompasses challenges related to data availability and collection, as well as the choice of model architectures. Then, considerations are made on the role transfer and active learning techniques can play, and on the importance of bias mitigation. A short summary concludes with practices suggested for future employment of ML in this field. This presentation has two main goals: firstly, to promote critical thinking regarding the vast potential and specific limitations of ML applications in paediatric DoC research, and secondly, to encourage the mindful utilization of ML to enhance patient care to the fullest possible extent.
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