ÿþ<html> <head> <title>BM-Science: News</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content= "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="description" content=""> <meta name="keywords" content= "eeg,meg,cognitive,activity,brain,activity,behavior,psychophysiology,twins,multiples,psychology,mind,consciousness,unconsciousness,mental,pattern,integrative,biological,signal,functional,states,information,processing,unified,internal,mechanism,integration,non-parametric,statistical,diagnosis,analysis,electrical,activity,advanced,models,quantitative,estimation,electrical,activity,algorithm,functional,co-operation,elementary,brain,areas,parameters,context,neurons,population,patients,tms,depression"> <link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="/cmn/bms.css"> </head> <body> <a name="top"></a> <!--#include virtual="/cmn/ssi_if-noframe.inc" --> <img src= "/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="10" width="1"> <table width="660" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="left"> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td width="180" align="center"><img src= "/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="80" width="1"><br> <img src="/cmn/image/021bms-logo-grey.jpg" width="140"> <br> </td> <td> <H1>The latest news: </H1><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="2" width="1"> <br> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> <tr> <td width=580 valign=top> <!-- table pos 1x1 --> </td> <td width=189 valign=top> <!-- table pos 1x2 --> </td> <td width=10 valign=top> <!-- table pos 1x3 --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width=580 align=center> <!-- table pos 2x1 --> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=580 bgcolor="#ffff99"> <tr> </tr> <tr> <td width=580 valign=top style='padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'> <br> <a name="n120130"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 30-Jan-2012 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B>  Top Hottest Article for 18 months, by  SciVerse ScienceDirect . </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> According to the rating  SciVerse ScienceDirect the article "<a href="/team/art61.pdf" target="_blank">Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space-time</a>" published by BM-Science researchers in the journal  Physics of Life Reviews , Volume 7, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 195-249, ranks between the 6th and the 17th position in the category of  Physics and Astronomy for the last 18 months (since June 2010 until the present date). </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n120102"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 02-Jan-2012 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> BM-Science researchers participate in the 2nd International Course on Neurorehabilitation (Italy). </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> BM-Science researchers will hold two Seminar sessions:  Functional Significance of EEG Oscillations and  Diagnostic and Prognostic value of EEG . The sessions will cover the diagnostic specificity of qEEG and its prognostic utility in clinical practice. The students will be given evidence on qEEG aided differential diagnosis, treatment selection and evaluation. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n111222"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 22-Dec-2011 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Season's Greetings: Wishes of Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> BM-Science wishes to all its partners and collaborators a prosperous New Year of 2012, professional achievements and health. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n111025"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 25-Oct-2011 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Research work of BM-Science received an award by the SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI NEUROLOGIA. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> Collaborative research work between BM-Science and the Foundation Institute San Raffaele - G. Giglio (FISRG), ITALY, was presented at XLII Congresso Della SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI NEUROLOGIA (Torino, Italy; October 22-25, 2011). The prize of  best presentation has been awarded. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n111010"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 10-Oct-2011 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> New approach to assess signs of (un)consciousness in patients of vegetative and minimally conscious state. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> Joint collaborative research work between BM-Science and the Foundation Institute San Raffaele - G. Giglio (FISRG), ITALY achieves promising preliminary results on a clinical trial for patients with severe brain damage. </p> <p> The results support the basic tenets of the theory of  Operational Architectonics of brain-mind functioning  earlier proposed by BM-Science researchers - and suggest that EEG operational architectonics analysis may provide objective and accurate means to assess signs of (un)consciousness in patients with severe brain injuries (See <a href="/team/art70_in-press.pdf" target="_blank">article-1</a>and <a href="/team/art71_in-press.pdf" target="_blank">article-2</a> ). </p> <p> BM-Science hopes that this methodological approach may complement the established  gold standard of behavioral assessment of these patients, as well as to guide the diagnostic and treatment processes. The study results have been published in four papers. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n110508"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 08-May-2011 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> BM-Science researchers present their work on the Study of Consciousness in a conference in Stockholm, Sweden. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> The research work on "<a href="/team/art70_in-press.pdf" target="_blank">Operational Architectonics of Consciousness</a>" has been presented at the International Conference: Toward a Science of Consciousness  TSC. Stockholm, Sweden; May 2-8, 2011. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n110429"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 29-Apr-2011 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> BM-Science researchers participate in the 1st International Course on Neurorehabilitation (Italy). </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> BM-Science researchers hold Seminar session:  Quantitative Electroencephalography (qEEG) and Functional Neuronal Networks in Clinical Practice . The session covers evidence on the diagnostic and prognostic utility of qEEG in clinical practice. The students learn that (1) qEEG has shown better predicting value for a diagnosis decision than a syndrome based diagnosis; and that (2) the information provided by qEEG analysis have additional utility beyond simply ruling out  organic brain lesions . </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n110214"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 14-Feb-2011 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Promising results for the treatment of depression. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> BM-Science and an UK based partner achieving promising preliminary results on a clinical trial for non-medicated treatment of medical-resistant depression. Through this study, BM-Science hopes to contribute to help to the improvement of the quality of life of the many affected by this disorder. </p> <p> The jointly developed treatment methodology utilizes quantitative balancing indexes of  Brain-Mind Operational Architectonics  developed by BM-Science researchers in the past years. </p> <p> The ongoing pilot clinical trial initiated in 2009 enters now its final phase is expected to be concluded during the present year. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n100628"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 28-Jun-2010 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Space and Time in the frame of human brain and mind: a recent review essay covering 15 years of research. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> The BM-Science researchers have recently published the paper "Natural world physical, brain operational, and mind phenomenal space-time "in the journal "Physics of Life Reviews" - an essay covering fifteen years of research in the fields. </p> <p> Concepts of space and time are widely developed in physics. However, there is a considerable lack of biologically plausible theoretical frameworks that can demonstrate how space and time dimensions are implemented in the activity of the most complex life-system  the brain with a mind. </p> <p> Critical analysis of research on the space time organization of the brain's activity pointed to the existence of so-called operational space time in the brain. At the same time, subjective (phenomenal) mental experience has also definitive spatial and temporal properties similar to many physical phenomena. The essay offers hypothesis that via the brain operational space time the mind subjective space time is connected to otherwise distant physical space time reality. For more, please read the full copy of the essay available online (<a href="/team/art61.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> ). </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n100306"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 06-Mar-2010 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> New potential methodology for the development of psychoactive drugs. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> "Alpha rhythm Operational Architectonics in the continuum of normal and pathological brain states: Current state of research" - a new paper by BM-Science researchers recently published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology (see <a href="/team/art60.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> ). <br /> The study provides an important glimpse at a methodology that is feasible in a search for focused pharmacological intervention; especially as psychoactive drug research has been turning toward more specific action while concurrently reducing side-effects and interactions. Authors provide a methodological and theoretical framework for a new field of experimental neuropathodynamics that is devoted to exploring the ways in which transient neuronal assemblies and their interactive hierarchical structures can be made to abandon the normal domain of flexible and adaptive behavior. Better understanding of the specific ways in which disrupted dynamics of different characteristics of neuronal assemblies and their functional connectivity may underlie neuro/psychopathology may also suggest new targets for therapeutic agents. Earlier (see <a href="/team/art34.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> ), the authors have proposed that the future of psychopharmacology lies in its ability to design specific psychotropic drugs, which can restore the normal temporal dynamics of disordered features of neuronal assemblies and disordered interactions among them. Such pharmacological agents potentially might be much more efficient than classical general compounds that are  blind to the actual dynamic properties of neuronal assemblies and functional relations among them. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n090312"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 12/13-Mar-2009 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> The theme  BRAIN AND MIND: A Unified Metastable Continuum presented at a multi-disciplinary workshop, in Germany. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> BM-Science participates in a Multi-disciplinary Research Workshop addressing the underlying mechanisms of advancement in cognitive processes. Our researchers presented a talk on theme  BRAIN AND MIND: A Unified Metastable Continuum where they outline the key aspects of both architectures of the phenomenal consciousness and operational brain functioning and shown the isomorphism relation between them through the shared notion of operation. Brothers Fingelkurts re-stated their work theory that brain operational architectonics and mind phenomenal architecture are the complementary aspects of the same metastable continuum. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n081125"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 25-Nov-2008 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> The article  Cortical operational synchrony during audio-visual speech integration sets trends in scientific publishing. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> The journal  Brain and Language chooses the article  Cortical operational synchrony during audio-visual speech integration published in Volume 85, Issue 2, May 2003, Pages 297-312 as <a href="/team/Latest_news_from_Brain_and_Language_Vol85-2.pdf" target="_blank">A KEY ARTICLE REFLECTING THE JOURNAL'S NEW DIRECTION</a> . </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n081025"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 25-Oct-2008 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Scientific article selected as the  Best Research Paper and its authors granted the Henry Guze Award. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> The Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis awards Dr(s). Fingelkurts with the <a href="/team/Henry_Guze_Award_2008_Fingelkurts.pdf" target="_blank">Henry Guze Award</a> for the article  Cortex functional connectivity as a neurophysiological correlate of hypnosis: an EEG case study published in Neuropsychologia, 2007, V. 45. No 7. P. 1452-1462. The article was selected as the BEST RESEARCH PAPER </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n080909"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 09-Sep-2008 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B>  EEG Temporal and Spatial Microstructure : Speech at the 14th World Congress of Psychophysiology, St Petersburg, 2008. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> Researcher Alexander Fingelkurts (Ph.D.) holds the speech <a href="/team/News_Symposium_Congress-IOP2008.pdf" target="_blank"> EEG Temporal and Spatial Microstructure </a> at the 14th World Congress of Psychophysiology, St Petersburg, 2008. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n080820"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 20-Aug-2008 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> The  Dream Catcher experiment </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> Researchers of BM-Science participate in the  Dream Catcher experiment held within the scope of the international collaboration project  Other minds: The Neurophilosophy and Neuroethics of Intersubjectivity. <br> By analyzing brain based data collected during sleep, the researchers try to reveal whether the subject was dreaming and what was the subject dreaming of. If the results are positive or passed better than chance, then the data (and the analysis result) must reflect  the phenomenal level of brain organization. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n080804"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 04-Aug-2008 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> BM-Science and Mind, Consciousness and Language Network (Italy) agree on a new joint collaboration </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> BM-Science and the Italian research network  Mind, Consciousness and Language have agreed to carry out a joint research project aiming to investigate brain operations underlying the production and comprehension of the meanings of words. <br> The results of this project are supposed to bring researchers closer in bridging the fundamental gap between brain and reflective mind, thus opening the road to important future technological applications in areas of human language and mind reading. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n080705"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 05-Jul-2008 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Our Lab is temporarily closed for the summer holiday: Enjoy the Summer! </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p>BM-Science Lab is closed between July 7th and July 21st. <br> We will resume our activity on Tuesday 22nd of July <br> We wish you a warm and pleasant summer!</p> <p><br></p> <a name="n080404"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 04-Apr-2008 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Finnish business magazine publishes an interview with BM-Science researchers </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> The second volume of Finnish business magazine Yrittäjä-lehti publishes an interview with the BM-Science co-heads of research.<br> The interview can be found <a href="/team/yrittajalehti2_2008.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> in page 60.<br> </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n080323"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 23-Mar-2008 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Public courses in Moscow and satellite cities in the frame of the "Educational Program" of BM-Science </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> Researches of BM-Science have held several courses for the public and specifically for child and primary school educators, paediatricians, and paediatric psychologists on "<b>Educating a child  From the moment of conception to adolescence.</b><i> What science and psychophysiology  in particular  can tell you and help you with this delicate task</i>". <br> <br> The course gives an overview over the development of the brain in the pre-natal phase and after birth as a basis for the emergence of cognitive functions. The development of the different psychological functions is analyzed in detail: perception, attention, memory, thinking, emotions, speech, psychological defense and temperament. The course also includes practical recommendations, while understanding these basic processes, to help parents and educators. Special attention was dedicated to the particular role of the phenomena of music and musical behaviour in education.<br> <br> BM-Science would like to thank the participants for their interested and enthusiastic participation. <br> </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n070901"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 01-Sep-2007 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B>BM-Science participates in the 14th World Congress of Psychophysiology, St Petersburg, 2008. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> Researchers of BM-Science participate in the organization of the symposium  Differentiation of Mentally-specific and Non-specific Brain Activations: Temporal and Spatial Scales in the frame of the 14th World Congress of Psychophysiology which will be held in September 08-13, 2008 in S. Petersburg, Russia. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n070610"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 10-Jun-2007 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> BM-Science intensifies its attention on social matters by starting a new educational program targeting the general public. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p>Due to a very low awareness and lack of valid knowledge by the general public concerning brain and mind scientific research and in order to dismiss myths that exist in society in the field of neuroscience, BM-Science establishes an educational program that includes public lectures, courses, seminars and publications accessible to the general public.</p> <p>The first public course takes place in Moscow during the current month of June. The courses focus the psychophysiology of children and children education.</p> <p><br></p> <a name="n070108"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 08-Jan-2007 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Psychoactive drug can restore the temporal characteristics of EEG and treat diseases. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> BM-SCIENCE advanced EEG analyses reveal an important finding in psychopharmacology (in press in International Journal of Psychophysiology). It was shown that methadone restores not only the composition of EEG oscillations and their percentage ration in the overall EEG but it also restores the temporal structure of the EEG signal. This latter aspect is of particular interest: </p> <p> It was recently suggested that a pathological process is a process where there is a change in the temporal dynamics from what is normal, rather than in the regularity or irregularity of those dynamics. </p> <p> More and more research (see <a href="/team/art34.pdf" target="_blank">review Fingelkurts et al., 2005</a>) emphasize that the majority of brain and psychiatric/mental problems are accompanied by a disruption in the temporal structure of brain activity, i.e. the temporal reorganization in the brain dynamics was indeed observed in opioid addiction. It was suggested that this type of temporal reorganization is a contributing factor to the disorganization syndrome in drug addiction and reward regulation (<a href="/team/art40.pdf" target="_blank">Fingelkurts et al., 2006</a>). </p> <p> Therefore, psychotropic drugs, which can restore the normal temporal structure of brain activity, are of particular interest. To our knowledge, this is the first study where the capability of methadone to restore the normal temporal structure of the brain s activity was explicitly demonstrated. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n060920"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 20-Sep-2006 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Studying the neural basis of consciousness: Participation in a multidisciplinary consortium. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p> BM-SCIENCE starts its participation in a Consortium for the Study of Consciousness. A multidisciplinary network will apply a number of methods in the study of consciousness, including philosophical argumentation, behavioral measurements, anesthesia, PET, TMS, and EEG measures in an attempt to reveal the neural basis of consciousness. </p> <p> An overall of 16 experiments will be run in this project. The results are expected to reveal the neural mechanisms of consciousness in unprecedented ways, constituting empirical tests of current neural theories and models of consciousness. The studies applying anesthetic agents may furthermore lead to practical applications involving objective physiological indices of anesthetic depth and new findings concerning the mechanisms inducing unconsciousness during anesthesia. At the philosophical level, the results can be seen as testing the viability of biological naturalism in the neuroscientific study of consciousness. The philosophical implications will be evaluated separately in theoretical/philosophical papers and the project will arrange a neurophilosophical symposium to encourage interaction between neuroscience and philosophy in Finland, and to promote the open discussion of the philosophical problems shared by neuroscientists. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n060905"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 05-Sep-2006 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> The 10th Jubilee Multidisciplinary International Conference of Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry "Stress and Behavior" (St-Petersburg, Russia, May 16-20, 2007) . </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> Like in earlier editions of the event, and as a renewed support and recognition to its merit, BM-Science promotes the 10-th Jubilee Multidisciplinary International Conference of Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry "Stress and Behavior" - <a href="http://rus-neuroscience-soc.bm-science.com/stress-and-behaviour/" target="_blank">http://rus-neuroscience-soc.bm-science.com/stress-and-behaviour/</a>. <p><br></p> <a name="n060520"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 20-May-2006 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> A summary of five years of research at BM-Science - both applied and theoretical work  can be found in a chapter of a book recently published. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <p>Neuroscience has lacked consistent theories and methods for understanding the mechanisms through which the brain orchestrates the symphony of perceptions, thoughts, and actions. </p> <p> The recently published work covers the issue and introduces "The Operational Architectonics Theory of Brain and Mind Functioning" which consists of a framework for mapping and understanding important mechanisms of cognition and eventually consciousness.</p> <p>For more, please read the full copy of the book chapter available online <a href="/team/chapt3.pdf">here</a>. </p> <p><br></p> <a name="n060321"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 21-Mar-2006 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Completion of EEG study on Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> It was found that the right and left hemisphere have different ranges of remote operational synchrony consistent with the different involvement of the hemispheres in the semantic representatives of depression. <p><br></p> <a name="n051212"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 12-Dec-2005 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> A longitudinal research program on opioid addiction was finalized </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> BM-Science has completed the analysis of EEG data in the frame of a longitudinal research program on opioid addiction conducted in BioMag Laboratory. The aim of this program was to explore the actual parameters of EEG (composition of brain oscillations and their temporal behaviour, local and remote functional connectivity) in current opioid addicts entering the hospital unit for withdrawal and evaluation for one-year methadone treatment. Results of the analysis will be published in 6 scientific publications in internationally recognisable scientific journals. <p><br></p> <a name="n051106"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 06-Nov-2005 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Public lecture at The House of Arts (HAUS DER KUNST, Munich) in the frame of the exhibition <i>"Siblings in Art"</i> </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> Researches of BM-Science have participated in the exhibition "Siblings in Art" (HAUS DER KUNST, Munich) with a public lecture on "Giftedness, Twins and Visual Art". The lecture tries to answer such questions as: Why ordinary individuals cannot draw naturalistic scenes unless they are taught the tricks and schema to do so, even though their brains obviously possess all of the necessary visual information required to draw and perform the calculations necessary to label three-dimensional objects? Why gifted people can do this without special education? What is so special in the brain of gifted people? Which situations in the real life may course conditions favourable for development and realization of giftedness? <p><br></p> <a name="n050611"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 11-Jun-2005 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Collaborative research agreement renewed with BioMag Laboratory - FINLAND. </b><br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> Important results have been recently achieved in the study of chronic opioid addiction. The BioMag Laboratory and BM-Science agree on further extend and deepen the conducted studies. <p><br></p> <a name="n050610"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 10-Jun-2005 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> Significant findings in the characterization of the hypnotic state with and without hallucination, as altered states of consciousness. </b>. <br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> The findings are a result of sucessful collaborative research between the The Consciousness Research Group, Department of Philosophy, University of Turku-FINLAND, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and BM-Science. <p><br></p> <a name="n050501"></a> <li STYLE="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt"> 1-May-2005 <br><img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> <B> The 9th Multidisciplinary International Conference of Biological Psychiatry "Stress and Behavior" (St-Petersburg, Russia, May 16-19, 2005) </b>. <br> <img src="/cmn/image/spacer.gif" height="5" width="1"><br> As a modest contribution, BM-Science offers some of its web-publishing IT-resources as a symbolic recognition for high value and quality of the event for the scientific community - already in its 9th year -, as well as a recognition for the enournous systematic effort of its organizers setting it up. <p><br></p> <p><i>(This log has started in April-2005)</i></p> <p><br></p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width=189 valign=top> <!-- table pos 2x2 --> </td> <td width=10 valign=top style='width:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'> <!-- table pos 2x3 --> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width=481 valign=top style='width:361.1pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'> <!-- table pos 3x1 --> </td> <td width=189 valign=top style='width:5.0cm;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'> <!-- table pos 3x2 --> </td> <td width=10 valign=top style='width:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'> <!-- table pos 3x3 --> </td> </tr> </table> <p><a href="#top"><img src="/cmn/image/arrow_top.gif" border="0"></a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>