Mind blanking is a distinct mental state
31 January 2023A new paper co-authored by Action researchers has just been published in PNAS: “Mind blanking is a distinct mental state linked to a recurrent brain profile of globally positive connectivity during ongoing mentation”.
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Can mindfulness prevent nightmares?
12 December 2022A significant number of studies explored and proved the psychological benefits of mindfulness. Mindfulness-based therapy has been found to reduce anxiety and mood problems in clinical populations successfully. As it turns out, mindfulness might also help to prevent nightmares, a new study says.
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Does MRI mapping represent the brain structure one-to-one?
26 October 2022We tend to think that MRI brain mapping simply represents the brain structure. “It’s a substantially more complex relation, and it’s never one-to-one representation”, explains dr Chen Song, the first author of “Linking human behaviour to brain structure: further challenges and possible solutions”. The paper has just been published in “Nature Review Neuroscience”.
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The Neural Architecture of Consciousness Summer School in Krakow has come to an end.
07 October 2022The Neural Architecture of Consciousness Summer School in Krakow has come to an end. Its participants had the opportunity to work with the best scientists worldwide. We talked to Dr. Renate Rutiku about the school, science and… spaghetti.
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MRI and EEG (Kraków site) data collection finished!
07 October 2022The EEG and MRI (Kraków site) teams have just completed the collection of the data for the Action. It was a tremendous collaborative effort between the Institute of Psychology (Jagiellonian University), and LOBI (Laboratory of Brain Imaging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology). Meet Katarzyna Hat, a PhD student at the Institute of Psychology JU who guided us through the MRI logistics, science and magic behind the Action.
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Grant awarded to support COST Action CA18106 genetics
23 June 2022Assistant professor Dr Per Qvist receives €270,000 grant from the Lundbeck Foundation allowing collection of biosamples, molecular extraction, and generation of genotyping and metabolomics profiles within the Action.
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News on Renate's Grant from NAWA
20 April 2021The success of our Action stands on shoulders of the Action members. Let us introduce one of the key figures behind data collection endeavour – Renate Rutiku.
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Data Collection Finishes at Aarhus University
31 March 2021Data collection at the Action Data Collection Site at Aarhus University has been completed!
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Follow Cost Twitter
01 March 2021While the data is still being collected, you follow us on TWITTER. We will keep you updated about our recent developments!
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News on Kraków
21 January 2021As a new year present to you, we are happy to announce that data collection at the Krakow site has kicked off and we have successfully completed the full assessment of our first batch of participants.
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Krakow Starts Data Collection
04 January 2021We are happy to announce that data collection at the Krakow site has kicked off, and we have completed the full assessment of our first two participants. Despite corona-related restrictions, we will now move along with data collection at a steady pace and hopefully increase throughput soon, once things open up again.
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Interview with Action Chair Dr Kristian Sandberg
01 November 2020The proposer and chair of our Action – Kristian Sandberg - has been interviewed for the COST media! Kristian has given a fascinating interview discussing Action aims and goals in the broader context of the current consciousness studies.
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First Cost Meeting
05 April 2019We started of with a fruitful meeting of the COST Management Board in Brussels.
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