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COST Action B27 Electric Neuronal Oscillations and Cognition (ENOC) MONITORING PROGRESS REPORT (23.05.2005 – 31.12.2007) Chair: Jordan Pop-Jordanov Presented by: Silvana Markovska-Simoska. EU/ESF, Brussels.
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COST Action B27 Electric Neuronal Oscillations and Cognition (ENOC) MONITORING PROGRESS REPORT (23.05.2005 – 31.12.2007) Chair: Jordan Pop-Jordanov Presented by: Silvana Markovska-Simoska COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
EU/ESF, Brussels B27: << ELECTRIC NEURONAL OSCILLATIONS AND COGNITION >> (ENOC) www.manu.edu.mk/costb27 Chair:J. Pop-Jordanov,MK Vice Chair: J. Gruzelier, UK DC Rapporteur: H. Stodkilde-Jorgensen, DK COST Countries: 20 AT, BG, HR, DK, EE, FR, DE, IE, IS, IT, LT, NO, PL, SER, SI, ES, CH, TR, UK Other countries: 7 CA, CU, JP, NZ, RU, TU, US WG 1: Theoretical Considerations WG 2: Diagnostics and Treatment WG 3: Experimental studies Economic Dimension: € 24 Million Duration: 2005-2009 COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
Objective The main objective is to increase the knowledge of the electric neuronal oscillations correlated to memory and attention as the basis for neuronal regulation aimed at enhancing the human performance and health. COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
Management Committee Members: 35+8 Profile:multidisciplinary Meetings: I − Brussels, May 05 II − Istanbul, Sept. 05 III – Skopje, May 06 IV – Swansea, Sept. 06 V – Florence, March 07 VI – Göttingen, Oct. 07 COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
STSM • Applications 15 • Realized 10 • To be completed 2 • Renounced 1 • Postponed 1 • Rejected 1 COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
Results WG1: Theoretical Considerations • EEG signal analysis (17 teams/8 countries) Extended and newly developed methods and codes • Chaos synchronization (9/5) Improved models for description of neural dynamics COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
WG2: Diagnostics and Treatment Advancedmethods of biofeedback, neuro-feedback and qEEG for research and clinical treatment of: • ADHD (13/6) • Other cognitive disorders (12/10) COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
WG3: Experimental Studies Improvements of knowledge on:memory, attention, perception and executive functions (17/13) Approaches: local, cellular network and systems Tools: EEG, ERP, single cell recordings, local field potentials, neurochemistry, and event‑related desynchronisation/synchronisation COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
Interactions between WGs New models ADHD EEG Signal Analysis Other Chaos Synchronization Better diagnostics and treatment Experimental Studies on Human Cognition EEG Database New evidence ▬ collaboration; ▬data mining; ▬expected outputs COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
Early – stage Scientists • Members in all WG teams • Active participation in WG meetings • STSM (10) • Co-authors in publications • Two MCMs (recently) COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
Dissemination of Results Action-related Publications Multi-country 30 (16 in Int. J.) Multi-team 88 (45) Single-team 167 (71) COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
Conferences and Workshops Istanbul*, Sept. 2005, Parallel WGs Meetings (29 presentations) Skopje, May 2006, WGs Joint Seminar (23) Swansea, Sept. 2006, Joint WGs Meeting* (21) Florence, March 2007, Joint WGs Meeting (22) Göttingen, Oct. 2007, Joint WGs Meeting (35) * In conjunction with European Society for Applied Neuroscience (SAN) COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
www.manu.edu.mk/costb27 COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
Scientific and Technical Cooperation Emerged research project granted by other sources (FP6, Foundations, Governments): • Joint multicountry projects 7 • Individual group projects 15 COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
Transfer of Results • Models and softwares – packed in the open source MATLAB library (AT, MK, TR) • Web based data banks (FR, LT) • Evaluation criteria transferred to other clinics and academia (EE, MK, RU, UK) • A new open access journal (PL) • Exhibitions (UK) • International Monographs – Nova Biomed ScI, Springer (MK, LT) • Open seminars for larger scientific community (all) • Press and electronic media (all) COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
25 20 15 10 5 0 MAY '05 NOV '05 NOV '06 NOV '07 COST Non-COST Participating COST countries and non-COST institutions COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
Man-power COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008
Inter-actions Cooperation • Members of B27 (from MK, PL and RS) are recently nominated in MCs of other four Complementary Actions in three Domains • A National Neuro-COST Committee is established (MCMs of CA from MK) COST DC BMBS Meeting, Berlin, March 2008