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Institution Name: The New School for Social Research
Principal Investigator: Wendy D’Andrea
Location: New York, USA
Dates: June 2024 – June 2027
Project name/title: Affective Neuroscience, Trauma, and Intervention
Brief description: This grant supports research that focuses on the differences between acute trauma, such as an auto accident or single-incident assault, and chronic trauma, such as sustained physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Dr. D’Andrea’s Trauma and Affective Psychophysiology Lab investigates how information processes, especially attention and cognition, are impacted by prolonged trauma exposure and re-shaped through therapeutic interventions.
Institution Name: Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich
Principal Investigator: Philipp Stampfli
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Dates: December 2021 – January 2025
Project name/title: Investigating the effect of normal frequency-band and infra-low frequency neurofeedback on functional brain connectome
Brief description: To explore the effects of frequency and Ifra-low frequency neurofeedback on brain hemodynamics by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Institution Name: Ubuntu Center for Peace
Project Leaders: Jean Bosco Niyonzima and Patricia L. Gerbarg
Location: Rwanda
Dates: October 2023 – December 2025
Project name/title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Integrated Community-based Social Healing Model on Trauma and Common Mental Disorders in the Post-genocide Rwanda General Population.
Brief description: This study explores the extent to which a community-based social healing model–integrating breath-centered body-mind practices, collective narrative, and local rituals–reduces the impacts of trauma, including PTSD, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and intimate partner violence, and improves productivity, quality of life, children’s school attendance, and food security.
Institution Name: Universitatea Lucian Blaga din Sibiu
Principal Investigator: Gabriela Marcu
Location: Romania
Dates: October 2023 – December 2025
Project name/title: The Safe Coping and Openness to New Life for Residential Adolescent Population (SCORE)
Brief description: This study explores two components of neurofeedback: 1) whether an individual protocol (based on qEEG and symptoms) is more effective than a standard protocol (T4-P4) in improving executive functioning and reducing other PTSD symptoms in adolescents exposed to chronic childhood trauma and 2) the neurophysiological and behavioral markers for exposure to chronic childhood trauma.
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