Researchers of UNATC IL Caragiale participated in a bilateral meeting between 5 to 7 of September at the famous Kavli Institute for System Neuroscience, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. The center is famous for the discovery of grid cells for which May-Britt and Edvard Moser which awarded the Nobel Prize in 2014 for their discovery .
STAD project investigates how social interactions and autobiographical recollections in real and virtual space could contribute to improving memory and well-being for persons affected by Alzheimer’s disease. The two teams collaborated on analyzing data from EEG and 7 tesla fMRI recordings in a virtual-navigation task aimed at observing interactions between spatial and social memory neural substrates and function.
With this occasion The PI Ioana Carcea gave the talk:” Social Transmission of Social Behavior” for the Kavli Institute Translational Neuroscience Group.
The Doeller Group uses neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate brain systems that support learning, memory, and decision-making. Recent work in the Doeller Group has focused on the entorhinal cortex, the part of the brain where grid cells reside. In comparing data from human MEG recordings to electrophysiological recordings of grid cells in rodents, the group found a “grid-like” signal in the MEG recordings during a visual exploration/tracking task.Their discovery demonstrates that “grid coding” applies not only to spatial navigation tasks, as originally described, but may also play a critical role in other behaviors such as visual exploration or locomotion. UNATC group at CINETic studies the potential of Theatre, Film, and other Immersive Environments to generate well-being, emotional regulation, and cognitive improvements.
Alzheimer’s Disease is primarily characterized by progressive memory loss that eventually leads to spatial disorientation, wandering, and incapacitated daily activities. The aim of STAD research project is to develop an intervention based on theater and drama therapy for alleviating memory loss, anxiety, aggression and other psychiatric symptoms that manifest in Alzheimer’s disease.
STAD – Social Transmission of Cognitive and Emotional States in the Care of Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
Project Promoter: National University of Theatre and Film “I. L. Caragiale” from Bucharest, Romania
Project Partner: Kavli Institute for System Neuroscience, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
EEA-RO-NO-2018-0606 (Contract No7, May 31th 2019)
