Pavel Goldstein

ICS supports Impact360 Colorado Citizenship Tour

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 16:28:11 +0000

ICS supports Impact360 Colorado Citizenship Tour Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/23/2018 - 10:28

Impact360 is a youth development collaborative that provides life skills, health & wellness support, and academic support to Denver’s low-income, minority students from 6^th grade through age 24. One of the academic support programs is college-preparation college campus visits.

On July 10 high school students from Impact360 toured the Institute of Cognitive Science Intermountain Neuroimaging Consortium to learn about neuroimaging research and adolescent brain development, then participated in a workshop with Pavel Goldstein, ICS post-doctoral researcher and others through the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab.

Impact360’s core values of integrity, commitment, perseverance, inclusivity mirror those of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and we are proud to support an organization that believes that “socioeconomic status should not determine individual potential” and is “creating pathways to (student) independence and choice”.

Intermountain Neuroimaging Consortium and Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab's Pavel Goldstein connect Denver high school students with brain science with tours, information, and workshops.

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CANLab Partners with cliexa® for Multidimensional Pain Tracking Research

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 18:33:38 +0000

CANLab Partners with cliexa® for Multidimensional Pain Tracking Research Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/09/2018 - 11:33

cliexa® Partners with the University of Colorado Boulder's Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab (CANLab) for Multidimensional Pain Tracking and Predictive Analytics Research.

cliexa, Inc., which offers a suite of mobile platforms for chronic disease management, announces its collaboration with CU Boulder’s CANLab and Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS). cliexa will collaborate with CANLab’s team, headed by Professor Tor Wager, as they lead in multidimensional pain tracking and predictive analytics research.

CU Boulder jointly filed a provisional patent with cliexa for the multidimensional objective pain concept with CANLab. The CANLab focuses on identifying a particular pattern of brain activity, which is diagnostic of physical pain. cliexa-Ease’s mobile platform hosts the research concept and is being used to further develop CANLab’s existing pain studies. cliexa-Ease will deliver an exclusive pain assessment model, which, in collaboration with CU Boulder, anticipates commercialization by mid 2018.

Mehmet Kazgan, founder and CEO of cliexa, explains how they are excited about the partnership with Wager’s CANLab because of its “leading research studies for multidimensional pain tracking.” He also describes how “working with neuroscientists at University of Colorado Boulder is taking [the cliexa platform] to the next level of objectifying patient outputs with multiple reference points.”

Professor Wager highlights how the collaboration will “expand our ability to understand how emotion affects pain in daily life.” Dr. Pavel Goldstein, the scientific lead of the project, adds the partnership will provide both “an incredible opportunity to establish a platform for researching chronic pain conditions” and “important feedback to pain patients and their clinicians with unique information about patient health.”

http://www.cliexa.com/2018/03/cliexa-partners-institute-cognitive-science-university-colorado-boulder/

About Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab

Professor Tor Wager leads CANLab, which is housed by CU Boulder’s Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) and the Psychology and Neuroscience Department. CANLab uses machine-learning to develop fMRI-based biomarkers for clinically relevant outcomes, such as pain. It subsequently tests how psychological factors influence these biomarkers. The lab also engages in collaborative, translational research, which incorporates brain systems-level analyses into the study of clinical disorders, including PTSD, depression, schizophrenia, and chronic pain.

Learn more about the CANLab at https://canlabweb.colorado.edu

About cliexa
The mobile platform technology developed by cliexa enables patients to track their chronic disease activity by quantifying symptoms using scientifically-proven and clinically-validated scoring models. cliexa delivers quantified disease activity and medication adherence through patient reported outcomes through real-time integration to electronic medical records, which streamline processes and increase efficiency in population health management.

Learn more about cliexa at www.cliexa.com

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Holding Hands Synchs Loved Ones' Brains: CANLab

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 22:21:27 +0000

Holding Hands Synchs Loved Ones' Brains: CANLab Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/02/2018 - 15:21

Pain can decrease with synchronized breathing, heart rate and brain wave patterns.

From CU Boulder: Reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not only will your breathing and heart rate synchronize with theirs, your brain wave patterns will couple up too, according to a new study.

The study, by researchers with the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Haifa and published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this week, also found that the more empathy a comforting partner feels for a partner in pain, the more their brainwaves fall into sync. And the more those brain waves sync, the more the pain goes away.

"We have developed a lot of ways to communicate in the modern world and we have fewer physical interactions," said lead author Pavel Goldstein, a postdoctoral pain researcher in the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at CU Boulder. "This paper illustrates the power and importance of human touch."

The study is the latest in a growing body of research exploring a phenomenon known as "interpersonal synchronization," in which people physiologically mirror the people they are with. It is the first to look at brain wave synchronization in the context of pain, and offers new insight into the role brain-to-brain coupling may play in touch-induced analgesia, or healing touch. Goldstein came up with the experiment after, during the delivery of his daughter, he discovered that when he held his wife's hand, it eased her pain.

"I wanted to test it out in the lab: Can one really decrease pain with touch, and if so, how?"
He and his colleagues at University of Haifa recruited 22 heterosexual couples, age 23 to 32 who had been together for at least one year and put them through several two-minute scenarios as electroencephalography (EEG) caps measured their brainwave activity. The scenarios included sitting together not touching; sitting together holding hands; and sitting in separate rooms. Then they repeated the scenarios as the woman was subjected to mild heat pain on her arm.

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A Lover's Touch Eases Pain as Heartbeats, Breathing Sync

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 13:44:19 +0000

A Lover's Touch Eases Pain as Heartbeats, Breathing Sync Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/26/2017 - 07:44

Fathers-to-be, take note: You may be more useful in the labor and delivery room than you realize.

ICS's Dr. Pavel Goldstein recently published work on “interpersonal synchronization,” the phenomenon in which individuals begin to physiologically mirror the people they’re with.

The study of 22 couples, found that when an empathetic partner holds the hand of a woman in pain, their heart and respiratory rates sync and her pain dissipates. Dr. Goldstein came up with the idea after witnessing the birth of his daughter, now 4.

“My wife was in pain, and all I could think was, ‘What can I do to help her?’ I reached for her hand and it seemed to help,” he recalls. “I wanted to test it out in the lab: Can one really decrease pain with touch, and if so, how?”

Read more at CU Boulder Today: A lover's touch eases pain as heartbeats, breathing sync

ICS's Dr. Pavel Goldstein recently published work on “interpersonal synchronization,” the phenomenon in which individuals begin to physiologically mirror the people they’re with.

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