Conference Speakers:
This is a temporary and partial list of presenters and the topic of their presentations, symposiums, workshops, and demonstrations. The names order is randomal.
The information and the list will be updated here once a week. 40 days prior to the conference opening the official program and the final list of speakers will be published here, together with the conference schedule.
Among our presenters:
Gerry Leisman,
Professor of Neuro- and Rehabilitation Sciences and Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences the University of Haifa and Director, The National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences, Israel.
“I” and “Thou”: Neurocognitive-Motor Interaction in the Development of Individuation
Since the early 1970s he has promoted consciousness as a scientifically tractable problem, and has been particularly influential in arguing that a fundamental understanding of consciousness can be approached using the modern tools of neurobiology and understood by mechanisms of theoretical physics, having developed biomedical applications of continuum theory. He has also been influential in examining mechanisms of self-organizing systems in the brain and nervous system applied to cognitive functions.
Stephen Grossberg,
Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and a Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. Director, Center for Adaptive Systems at Boston University
The Resonant Brain: How conscious seeing, hearing, feeling, and knowing regulate movement
Grossberg is a founder of the fields of computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, and neuromorphic technology. His work focuses upon the design principles and mechanisms that enable the behavior of individuals, or machines, to adapt autonomously in real time to unexpected environmental challenges. This research has included neural models of vision and image processing; object, scene, and event learning, pattern recognition, and search; audition, speech and language; cognitive information processing and planning; reinforcement learning and cognitive-emotional interactions; autonomous navigation; adaptive sensory-motor control and robotics; self-organizing neurodynamics; and mental disorders.
John Ratey,
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
The Positive Impact of Physical Activity on Cognition
He is the coauthor of the books Driven to Distraction, Answers to Distraction, and Delivered from Distraction. He is also the author of Shadow Syndromes. In 2001 he published the book A User’s Guide to the Brain, in which he describes the human brain as a flexible muscle, which works on a “use it or lose it” basis. He is the author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (2008), which describes the positive benefits that exercise can have for people with ADHD. In 2014 he coauthored the book Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization.
Robert Melillo,
Director, National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences, S. Gilbert Arizona, Professor Neuroscience, National University of the Health Sciences, Chicago, Illinois.
Parallels in brainstem, motor and autonomic development and their relationship to hemispheric integrative function
Dr. Melillo is an internationally known lecturer, author, educator, researcher and clinician in developmental neuroscience, rehabilitation, neuropsychology and neurobehavioral disorders in children. He is also an expert in nutrition with more than 20 years of clinical experience.
Symposiums, Workshops, Presentations –
and their Presenters:
Influence of personality, peer pressure and sex on cognitive-enhancing drug use among athletes
Ayobami A Adesina
Effectiveness of Feldenkrais method in multiple sclerosis symptoms
Triantafillia Reziti
The effect of thinking in motion intervention versus CogniFit on motor and cognition in older adults. A randomized clinical trial
Shiri Embon-Magal
Some specific movements initiated by the therapist have a deep influence on patient’s cognitions: Developing healing, emotional intelligence and resilience to stress through “static moving”, create à basic sensory field to have access to primal feelings of happiness
Michèle S Quintin
Unlocking potential and enhancing learning abilities through movement-based programs in the early years
Jane Williams
Multiple sclerosis: Correlation between infection and antibiotic treatment
Seema Mahesh
(Loco-) motion and cognition
Anton Fuerlinger
Psychomotricity in vestibular dysfunction therapy (VDT): A collective health question
Paulo Bastos
A new approach to rehabilitation and chronic pain: The role of somatic movement education in a residential program for rheumatic patients
Bibiana Badenes
Changes in body image among patients with depression in dance movement therapy groups
Päivi Pylvänäinen
Effects of Tai Chi experiences and skill on the brain white matter structure
Jing Xian Li
(Symposium) The Science of Tai Chi
Jing Xian Li
Movement and cognition at the laboratory of somatic for architecture and landscape
Maria Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez
Alice in wonderland: Motor imagery and movement in conceptual and theoretical learning processes
Maria Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez
Cognition under examination: Illusionism, lateral thinking and somatic
Jaime Polanco
Effect of Tai Chi practice on dual-tasking performance and its underlying mechanism
William WN Tsang
Breath and body awareness in somatic movement practices augments awareness of self and others
Bonnie Gintis
Dancing the connected body: Exploration of bipedalism to artistic expression through the Lens of Anatomy Trains
Laurice D Nemetz
Tai Chi Chuan practice decreases functional connectivity in default mode network: Evidences from both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies
Li-Zhen Chen
Movement as a key to unlock cognitive resources in individuals diagnosed with major neurocognitive disorder
Donna Newman-Bluestein
Kinetics and kinematics of the lower extremity during performance of two typical Tai Chi movements by the elders
Nok-Yeung Law
The impact of a somatic movement intervention on interoceptive ability and stress resilience among flight attendants exposed to second-hand smoke
Peter Payne
Overcoming movement limitations through interoception in somatic movement practices: Pioneers’ case studies and current applications among cancer survivors
Martha Eddy
Recovery of cognitive functions during multidisciplinary rehabilitation after severe traumatic brain injury
José León-Carrión
Embodied cognition: A case of Indian classical music (Vocal) and Indian classical music (Instrumental) with reference to time perception, attention and personality
Sandip Bhaise
Effect of mudra and visual-motor imagery on visual-motor integration functioning and time-based and event-based prospective memory in patients with social anxiety disorder
Sandip Bhaise
Embodied cognition: A case of Indian classical music (Vocal) and Indian classical music (Instrumental) with reference to time perception, attention and personality
Sandip Bhaise
Symposium–Cultivating neuroplasticity through interoception in somatic movement practices: Evolving research methods
Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell and Mardi Crane-Godreau
Moving to a decision: Movement pattern analysis (MPA)
Laurie Cameron1
Dance movement as a tool for educating individuals with autism
Joanne Lara
Dance movement as a tool for educating individuals with autism: Theoretical and practical principles of applied neuroscience and educational theory
Joanne Lara
Dance movement as a tool for educating individuals with autism: Theoretical and practical principles of applied neuroscience and educational theory
Joanne Lara
Adapted tango and rehabilitative dance modalities: A primer for application in people with movement disorders
Madeleine E Hackney
Symposium: Motor-cognitive interaction: The role and measurement of engagement
Madeleine E Hackney
Partnered dance exercise is a cognitively demanding, mentally stimulating movement conversation and anyone can do it
Madeleine E Hackney
Using motor learning principles to examine the application of skill progression medical tests to facilitate balance re-gaining after a stroke
Iris Lopez,
Symposium–Cultivating neuroplasticity through interoception in somatic movement practices: Evolving research methods
Elisabeth Osgood-Campbell and Mardi Crane-Godreau
Differences in intelligence performance for students with and without ADHD in elementary school
Yung-Wen Tang
Absent N200 and P300 in pontomesentephalic junction lesion
Fernanda V Moraes
Transcranial magnetic stimulation: Monitoring of a patient submitted to intervention after ischemic stroke
Fernanda V Moraes
Neuromodulation by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): Effective cognitive rehabilitation after a stroke
Fernanda V Moraes
Neuroinhibitory modulation training and dance for symptom management in a 36-year-old female dancer with generalized dystonia: A case study
Joaquin Farias
Human gait movement patterning and movement re-education
Madeline Black
An autobiography
Ulrika Sandén
Brain injury: A cage of glass and making a micro gliacell orchestra play
Ulrika Sandén
Bodily writing: A studio-based research practice for interpreting data
Alexia Buono
Chronic itch-scratch behaviour is a cognitive phenomenon mediated through neuroendocrine receptors
Chan KT Michael
Cognitive imagery and corresponding movement to help Parkinson’s patients fluidity, stability and balance
Donna Brooks
Special movement complex for rehabilitation among children on autistic spectrum
Sergey Masloboev
LUCIE-The Lund University Checklist for Incipient Exhaustion: A useful tool for clinical screening of incipient work-related exhaustion
Artur Tenenbaum
Developmental motor re-education for children with special needs and disabilities: A new holistic model of learning
Yuji
The amygdala and the present experience of now in relation to movement and art
Mogens Davidsen
Extracts from ‘conversations with dystonia – parts one and two’: A demonstrative choreography in the application of neuroplasticity and integrated dance
Suzie Birchwood
Biomechanics and psychomechanics of movement in dance, sport and health programs from the point of view of logic of six dimensional coordinate system
Marina Lobova
Evaluating the impact of dance activities for people in different stages of dementia
Trish Vella-Burrows
Feasibility and usability of a video game-based multicomponent training for older adults and its effects on motor functions, cognition and brain activity
Manuela Omlin
Effects of dance movement therapy on cognitive, physical and psychosocial functioning in elderly with early dementia
Rainbow TH Ho
Playing the piano with movement intelligence — a revolution-ary approach
Doug Boltson
The cognitive role of spatial diagrams in the theater
Irit Degani-Raz
Postural balance and muscle activity changes under additional load among children
Paulina Tomal
The somatic education approaches to auto-pedestrian collision injury rehabilitation: Why fluid, casual and unflappable works
Stephanie Artz
Molecular education: Endogenous brain derived neurotrophic factor stimulation following Quadrato Motor Training
Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan
Improved reading and increased brain derived neurotrophic factor following Quadrato Motor Training: The case of dyslexia
Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan
Creativity and coordination among sensorimotor training experts
Antonio De Fano
Spatial memory, stress hormones and anxiety are affected by exercise training
Eli Carmeli
Direction modulation of muscle synergies in a hand-reaching task
Sharon Israeli
Validating the correlation between movement and language through the lens of adult attachment status
Talia B Shafir
Motor control during overground walking: An fNIRS study
Lutz Schega
Sensory integration and the perception of movement: Body midline crossing in Capoeira and gymnastics in children with special needs
Rosaura Camacho-Olguín
The effect of cotton pads impregnated with amber suspension on collagen and elastin
Inga Lyashenko
The integration of Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals with physical therapy in treating a patient with chronic pain, PTSD and military sexual trauma
Nina Kaufman
Six mind-body instructional strategies for movement programs and research
Catherine Rosasco-Mitchell
Eye movement as an indicator of cognitive difficulty.
Cezary Biele
Multitherapy as an allied in the treatment of dyslexia and acquired dyslexia (specific learning disorder with impairment in reading)
Anna Lou Olivier
Toy library allied to learning, reassessment twenty years after the implementation of the method
Anna Lou Olivier
Micro-movement, gesture and body cues that accelerate individual and couple psychotherapy treatment
David Mars
From me to we: Self embodiment as a tool for developing kinesthetic empathy within group dynamics
Milca Leon
Professional modern dancers who become physical therapists as a second career: A phenomenological inquiry into their experiential understanding of the body and movement
Ione Beauchamp
Heal your brain. Reclaim your life
Susana Stoica
The soma-social effects of movement in empathy
Vincent YW Long
The brain and sensorimotor intelligence
Vincent Di Norcia
Vestibular dysfunction as a complication of diabetes mellitus. How may the Feldenkrais method help?
M Jesús Jiménez
Vestibular and balance training with the Feldenkrais method
M Jesús Jiménez
Therapeutic efficacy of yoga in individuals with varied traumatic stress histories
Kintla Striker
Posture-gesture mergers: Integrated body actions that reveal decision-making style
Daniela Wancier
A high-intensity multi-component agility intervention improves Parkinson’s patients’ clinical and motor symptoms
József Tollár
Intensive agility training followed by a two year long agility maintenance program slows the progression of Parkinson’s disease
József Tollá
The evolution of apparent motor action pattern of the operator of a complex system
Shan Fu
A new philosophy of man and humanism
Hans LM Dassen
Childhood cognition and standing balance in mid to later life: Longitudinal evidence from a British birth cohort
Joanna M Blodgett
The mediating and moderating role of tinnitus’s perception relationship between biological factors and development of psychological problems in male female tinnitus patients
Muhammad Aqeel
EEG reactivity to auditory motor-command stimuli in permanent vegetative-state patients putatively predicts clinical outcome
Oded Meiron
What do we see during action observation? Memory encoding, retention, and retrieval of the whole-body movement sequences
Shiau-Chuen Chiou
Moving while singing: How internal cues can improve walking for older adults and people with Parkinson disease
Elinor C Harrison
An evaluation of the left-hand grip force modulation in right-handed healthy subjects and right-sided hemiplegic stroke patients
Ronaldo L da Silva
Expertise and strategic thinking in dance-making: The application of strategies for diversifying dance designs
Maya Gavish
Alpha and beta sensorimotor oscillations reflect the activation of motor and semantic information during motor planning
Francois Foerster
Movement, interaction, play: Three paintings as embodiments of empathy, conversation and entrainment in motion
Gerburg Garmann
Working with post traumatic stress disorder: Integrating body
Liza Palchan
Cognition-enhanced physical exercises to improve academic learning skills in elementary school children
Lynne Kenney
ymposium: Executive Function in Motion: Assessment and Training in Children and Adults
Bell Morris
A longitudinal analysis of ALF resident wandering using ultra wideband real-time location services (RTLS): Results of a yearlong study
William D Kearns
Foraging for movement patterns: A choreographer’s quest
Ana Rita Fonseca
Dance in autism spectrum disorder: A blinded randomized clinical trial
Caroline Souza-Santos
Walking, entrainment and social synchronization: A participatory workshop
Elaine Westwick
Traversing the succession of space to place to home: A kinesthetic comprehension of the body as it forms an epistemology of space
Sarah Matzke
Effects of ReWire movement method on quality of life issues in adults with cerebral palsy: A pilot study
Nina Martin
The Resonant Brain: How conscious seeing, hearing, feeling, and knowing regulate movement
Stephen Grossberg
Motor Proficiency—Not Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity—is Related to Executive Function Skills in Early Childhood
Michael T. Willoughby
Psychological resilience and mindfulness as protective factors to maintain mental wellbeing after spinal cord injury
Jace S Pincock
Natural selection as a physical force imposing symmetry across brains in evolutionary and phenotypic detail
Ajibola Folaranmi
Do we need eyes to see or is vision enough?
Michal Huber-Rotschild
Dynamic neuro-cognitive imagery (DNI) training improves mental imagery ability, motor symptoms and non-motor function in individuals with Parkinson’s disease
Amit Abraham
An inquiry into mental imagery across the spectrum of human capabilities
Amit Abraham
Applied Natya (dance) therapy: Integrating science and arts for mental health through Bharata’s Natya Shastra
Dimple Kaur
Leading dance sessions for special students
Sean Ziv