Capturing brain changes across the lifespan: Implications for affective control and wellbeing
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Reading
Department Name: Sch of Psychology and Clinical Lang Sci
Abstract
United Kingdom
People |
ORCID iD |
Carina Van Reekum (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Tupitsa E
(2023)
Heart rate variability covaries with amygdala functional connectivity during voluntary emotion regulation.
in NeuroImage
Tupitsa Emma
(2021)
HEART RATE VARIABILITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH AMYGDALA-OCCIPITAL CORTEX CONNECTIVITY STRENGTH
in PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Morriss J
(2019)
Multimodal evidence for delayed threat extinction learning in adolescence and young adulthood.
in Scientific reports
Van Reekum CM
(2018)
Aging is associated with a prefrontal lateral-medial shift during picture-induced negative affect.
in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
Description | The funding financed an international workshop. The workshop focused on how two developmental stages - adolescence and older age - may be particularly vulnerable to loss of affective and cognitive control with consequences for well-being, and how structural brain development interacts with changes in brain function. This workshop was at the forefront of discussing both conceptual and methodological developments to further the study of developing brains and the consequences for the implementation of affective and cognitive control, topics gaining increased interest in science, health care, and society. We were fortunate that these internationally renowned researchers accepted our invitation: Prof Richie Davidson, UW-Madison, USA; Prof BJ Casey, Cornell University, USA; Prof Paul Whalen, Dartmouth College, USA; Prof Heidi Johansen-Berg, Oxford University, UK; Prof Håkan Fischer, Stockholm University, Sweden, and Prof Tom Nichols, Warwick University, UK. |
Exploitation Route | The presentations and formal and informal discussions that took place as part of the workshop have led to interactions and collaborations between researchers in the US, UK and Sweden, and will lead to grant submissions formulated as part of the workshop. Furthermore, discussions that took place as part of Day 2 of the workshop have informed analytic approaches that require further development and have been tested on a multimodal brain imaging project funded by the BBSRC and linked to this workshop (BB/J009539/1). This workshop has directly led to two visits abroad, one by Dr Jayne Morriss to Prof BJ Casey's lab at Weil Cornell Medical College, and one by the PI to Prof Richie Davidson's lab at UW-Madison to work on brain imaging data as part of the Midlife in the US (MIDUS) project (see "Collaborations"). Outputs reporting findings related to these visits are currently published or under review. Links made during this workshop has led to a collaboration with Dr Michiko Sakaki and has led to being a named collaborator on a grant awarded to Dr. Yong Min Hooi (Sunway University, Malaysia) by the Ministery of Education, Malaysia, as part of the Long Term Research Grant Scheme. |
Sectors | Education,Healthcare,Other |
URL | https://sites.google.com/site/readingemotions/pastmeetings/2014 |
Description | Successful ageing: Evidence-based interventions to delay ageing-related decline |
Amount | RM4,034,400 (MYR) |
Organisation | Ministry of Education Malaysia |
Sector | Public |
Country | Malaysia |
Start | 12/2019 |
End | 11/2024 |
Title | Data sharing via OpenNeuro - a free and open platform for sharing of brain imaging data, including MRI |
Description | The MRI data collected as part of BBSRC-funded projects are now available via OpenNeuro |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | These data have been downloaded 19 times (3 March 2020). |
URL | https://openneuro.org/datasets/ds002366/versions/1.0.0 |
Description | MIDUS |
Organisation | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Department | Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | As part of the Midlife in the US (MIDUS) project, members of the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging are involved in data collection of structural and functional MRI and resting state EEG brain data. I have been granted access to the MRI and EEG data and I am involved in the analysis of these data. Thus far, a paper reporting FMRI findings has been submitted for publication. |
Collaborator Contribution | Profs. Carol Ryff and Richard Davidson have granted me access to the raw data, which are not yet part of a publicly available database. I collaborate with researchers in their teams on these data, as well as other researchers who contributed publicly available data to MIDUS. |
Impact | A manuscript reporting the findings is currently under review. |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Michiko's collaboration |
Organisation | University of Reading |
Department | School of Psychology and Clinical Language Science |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Dr. Michiko Sakaki and I are collaborating to add a second wave of structural brain and cognitive performance data to the data collected as part of my BBSRC award. As such, we are taking an important step to creating a database of longitudinal structural brain and cognitive performance data from older adults, for whom we already had cognitive performance data in the University of Reading's Older Adult Research Panel. |
Collaborator Contribution | My colleague, Dr Michiko Sakaki, has been awarded a research grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (21600000 JPY) which in part supports this collaboration. |
Impact | A research grant awarded to my colleague, Dr Michiko Sakaki. |
Start Year | 2016 |