This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 707730.
Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center hosts Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellowship supported by the European Commission.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 707730.
The Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center is hosting a pioneering new study that aims to elucidate the processes of brain function in healthy individuals at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The project is utilizing the modern technology of neurofeedback which allows participants to see the activity of their brain in real time and learn to control it. The study holds promise for the future prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and is going to be the first large scale study of neurofeedback processes, investigating for possible associations with biomarkers and other biological data.
This project, called Multi-regional Neurofeedback for the Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease (NPAD), has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 707730. The grant is bringing Stavros Skouras, a promising international cognitive neuroscientist, to work in close collaboration with the scientific director and the neuroimaging unit of the Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center to design an interactive task like a video game that is controlled by the participants’ brain activity inside the magnetic resonance tomographer.
Dissemination of the project:
- 3rd February 2018: Our MSCA-IF fellow, Stavros Skouras, talked at the ‘MCAA Annual Conference and General Assembly’ in Leuven, Belgium.
- 1st December 2017: Stavros Skouras, was offered a “meritorious abstract award” and two posters of the NPAD project were presented at the ‘Real-time functional imaging and neurofeedback conference’ in Nara, Japan.
- 28th November 2017: Stavros Skouras was selected to participate in ‘MEP-scientist pairing scheme’ in Brussels, Belgium.
- 24th November 2017: Stavros Skouras, won a “best poster award” for his presentation of the NPAD project at the ‘1st International Conference on Cognitive Reserve in the Dementias’ in Munich, Germany.
- 29th September 2017: Stavros Skouras talked about the NPAD project at the European Researchers Night in Athens (tweet in Spanish here)
- 26th September 2017: Stavros Skouras, participated with a video presentation of the NPAD project in the ‘EU4facts conference’ in Brussels, Belgium.
- 19th July 2017: Stavros Skouras presented his work towards functional biomarkers for preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease at the AAIC 2017
- 16th June 2017: First phase of NPAD data acquisitions completed (click here to see the tweet in Spanish)
- 2017: The NPAD project was featured in the BBRC Annual Report (page 13)
- 2016: The NPAD project was featured in the BBRC Annual Report (page 17)