SAN 2011 Book of Abstract

SAN2011 |5-8 May | Thessaloniki| Greece SOCIETY OF APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE
CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND BOOK OF ABSTRACTS SAN2011 MEETING Editors Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Manousos A. Klados
Ana B. Vivas, Costas Pappas and John H. Gruzelier
Editors:
Panagiotis D. Bamidis, Manousos A. Klados
Ana B. Vivas, Costas Pappas and John H. Gruzelier Technical Assistance:
Chrysa Lithari
ISBN: 978-960-243-679-9 Publisher: Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Medical School, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki Welcome Note T
he Society of Applied Neuroscience (SAN) has pleasure in welcoming you to
its 3rd biennial meeting, 5-8th May, 2011, held in Greece's second, and
ancient coastal city Thessaloniki. The meeting is hosted by Professor
Panagiotis Bamidis of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Dr Ana
Vivas of the South-East European Research Centre, Greece. The meeting has
the support of the Northern Greece Psychological Society, the Hellenic
Society of Biomedical Engineering, and the Hellenic Society of
Neurophysiology.
SAN is a nonprofit membership organization devoted to advancing
neuroscientific knowledge and its innovative applications by empowering
both scientists and practitioners in serving the public by optimising self-
regulatory brain function. It promotes an integrated approach involving
neural, cognitive and behavioural levels of analysis. In advancing
integrative neuroscience, novel applications include neurofeedback (EEG,
fMRI, NIRS), autonomic nervous system biofeedback, brain-computer interface
(BCI), neuro-rehabilitation, transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS),
virtual reality feedback, vagus nerve stimulation, electro-cranial
stimulation, audio-visual stimulation, etc.
Thus its foremost scientific aim is to foster and educate an integrative
approach across the range of methodologies in applied neuroscience, rather
than focussing on a single methodology. For the practitioner ,application
domains cover clinical treatment, education and optimal performance. SAN
promotes evidence-based practice in order to optimise functions in both
health and disease. The previous two meetings in Swansea and Seville were
held in collaboration with the E U COST B27 initiative Electrical Neuronal
Oscillations & Cognition, as was a workshop in Dubrovnik. This ENOC action
has now ended and this is the first meeting solely under SAN's auspices.
It is also the first meeting that fulfils SAN's aims of offering a wide
range of applications and methodologies in applied neuroscience, coming
together in a three-track programme, and so denotes the growing maturity of
the Society. It remains for me to thank and congratulate you for the
excellent calibre of the science in the response to the call for
presentations, and to thank most sincerely my Greek hosts and colleagues,
and to wish you a most enjoyable meeting.
John Gruzelier
President, Society of Applied Neuroscience.
Conference Chairs Panagiotis D. Bamidis
Ana B. Vivas
John Gruzelier Programme Committee Martijn Arns
Olga Bazanova
Niels Birbaumer
Rien Breteler*
Jose Leon-Carrion
Ivan Cox*
Dirk de Ridder
Berrie Gerrits*
Andreas Ioannides
Doerte Klein*
Juri Kropotov
Silvana Markovska-Simoska*
Antonio Martins-Mourao*
Andreas Muller*
Sorinel Oprisan
Crista Neuper
Lesley Parkinson*
Miriam Reiner
Beverley Steffert*
Ute Strehl
Tanju Surmeli*
Eric Vermetten
Bo von Scheele*[1] Organizing Committee Elvira Massoura
Nikos Laskaris
Maria Albani
Stratos Kosmidis
Ioannis Antoniou
Leontios Hadjileontiadis
Lazaros Triarchou
Madga Tsolaki
Costas Pappas
Christos Papadelis
Anastasios Economides
Antonia Ypsilanti Local Technical Committee Manousos Klados
Chrysa Lithari
Christos Frantzidis
Charalambos Styliadis
Alkinoos Athanasiou
Christos Moridis
Vasillis Terzis Table of Contents Table of Contents 9
KEYNOTES 10 PHANTOM PERCEPTIONS: THE ANALOGY BETWEEN PAIN AND TINNITUS. 10
APPLICATIONS OF EEG-BASED BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACES FOR THE CONTROL OF
ELECTRONIC DEVICES 10
BRAIN PLASTICITY BASED TRAINING PROGRAMS - THEORY, DATA, AND PRACTICE 11 INVITED SPEAKERS 12 MULTIMODAL VIRTUAL REALITY AND ENHANCEMENT OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE 12
CURRENT INTERPRETATION OF ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM ALPHA ACTIVITY. 12
REAL-TIME EEG-BASED PERSONALIZED DIGITAL EXPERIENCE 13
MEMORY IN THE LOWER SENSES 13
AROUSAL REGULATION AS A PATHOGENETIC FACTOR IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS 14
LEARNING THEORY PRINCIPLES IN NEUROFEEDBACK 14
BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES FOLLOWING EEG BIOFEEDBACK (EEGBF) 15 WORKSHOPS 16
SINGLE CASES & INTEGRATIVE THERAPY [FRI 1:50-3:30 TIMBER HALL A] 16 THREE SINGLE CASE STUDIES 16
NEUROFEEDBACK TREATMENT IN A PATIENT WITH ADHD AND ODD 16
TINNITUS TREATMENT WITH NEUROFEEDBACK: A CASE STUDY. 17
OPTIMIZING TREATMENT EFFICACY 17 AGEING BRAIN AND TRAINING: NEUROSCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE [SAT 9:45-12:45 TIMBER
HALL A] 18 COGNITIVE AND PHYSICAL TRAINING FOR PREVENTION OF COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THE
ELDERLY: PRELIMINARY DATA OF THE LONG LASTING MEMORY EUROPEAN PROJECT 18
USABILITY OF A COGNITIVE (GRADIOR) AND PHYSICAL TRAINING PROGRAM BASED IN
NEW SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES IN PATIENTS WITH MILD DEMENTIA, MILD COGNITIVE
IMPAIRMENT AND HEALTHY ELDERLY PEOPLE: LONG LASTING MEMORIES PRELIMINARY
FINDINGS. 19
COGNITIVE TRAINING, PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
NEUROSCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES & FIRST EVIDENCE FROM THE LLM PROJECT 19
AGING AND DEMENTIA - FIRST RESULTS FROM BIOMARKER AND INTERVENTION
RESEARCH 20
DEVELOPMENT OF NEURAL FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY OVER THE LIFESPAN 20
NEW NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MARKER FOR MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT PROGRESSION TO
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE 21 EFFECTIVE CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS OF EEG [SAT 9:45-3:25 TIMBER HALL B]
22 USING BIVARIATE SURROGATES TO LATERALIZE THE EPILEPTIC FOCUS 22
ESTIMATION OF THE CORTICAL ACTIVITY FROM SIMULTANEOUS MULTI-SUBJECT EEG
RECORDINGS DURING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS 23
ESTIMATING TRUE BRAIN CONNECTIVITY FROM EEG/MEG DATA INVARIANT TO
COORDINATE TRANSFORMATIONS 23
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF INSTANTANEOUS CAUSALITY ON FREQUENCY DOMAIN
CONNECTIVITY MEASURES 24
EFFECTIVE CONNECTIVITY IN PARTIAL EPILEPSY: MODULATION BY TRANSCRANIAL
MAGNETIC STIMULI 24
BRAIN CONNECTIVITY IN CHILDREN WITH COGNITIVE DEFICITS AND CSWS 25
FUNCTIONAL NETWORK ANALYSIS REVEALS DIFFERENCES IN THE SEMANTIC PRIMING
TASK 25 BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACES (BCI) [SAT 9:45-3:25 DOCK SIX HALL] 26 SWITCHING KALMAN FILTERS FOR BCI DATA SEGMENTATION 26
WILD PHOTOSHOOT: APPLYING OVERT AND COVERT ATTENTION 26
COMMON SPATIAL PATTERNS USING ANALYTIC SIGNALS FOR EEG-BASED BCIS 27
MOTION-BASED ERP SPELLERS IN A COVERT ATTENTION PARADIGM 28
FROM VISUAL TO TACTILE SPELLER 28
NATURAL STIMULI FOR AUDITORY BCI 29
THE TNO TACTILE P300 BCI 30 NEUROFEEDBACK AND QEEG IN ADHD: NEW DEVELOPMENTS [SAT 2:00-3:25 TIMBER
HALL B] 31 MANIA AND ADHD: COMMON SYMPTOMS, COMMON PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, COMMON THERAPY?
31
NEUROFEEDBACK FOR ADULT ADHD: INVESTIGATION OF THETA/BETA TRAINING 32
THE EFFECTS OF QEEG-BASED NEUROFEEDBACK IN ADHD 32 SYMPOSIA 33
CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME [THU 11:05-12:45 TIMBER HALL A] 33 PSYCHOMETRIC DIFFERENTIATION OF SLEEPINESS AND FATIGUE 34
WAKING BRAIN RHYTHMS IN CFS: IMPLICATIONS FOR A MODEL OF CNS DYSFUNCTION
35
TIRED OF BEING INACTIVE: CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DYSFUNCTIONS EXPLAIN
EXERCISE INTOLERANCE IN CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME 35
NON-RESTORATIVE SLEEP AND UNREFRESHING MORNING AROUSAL IN CFS: JUST TIRED
OR PRESENTING DISORDERED SLEEP? 36 UNLOCKING CREATIVITY THROUGH NEUROSCIENCE [THU 11:05-12:45 DOCK SIX HALL]
37 FMRI/EEG 37
NEUROFEEDBACK & THE PERFORMING ARTS 38
COGNITIVE STIMULATION AND CREATIVITY TRAINING 39
BRAIN MAINTENANCE OF CREATIVE THINKING 39 SCHIZOPHRENIA [FRI 9:40-10:30 TIMBER HALL A] 40 THE HETEROGENEITY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA: THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH. 40
WHAT IS UNIQUE AND COMMON IN PHYSIOLOGY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND ADHD: THE ERP
STUDY. 41
SCHIZOPHRENIA AND THE EFFICACY OF QEE