Mental health: from the laboratory to the clinic
Adam Radomsky is a professor of psychology in Concordia’s Faculty of Arts and Science and director of the Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Laboratory. He and postdoctoral fellows Martha Giraldo O’Meara and Shiu (Kelvin) Wong apply new and unorthodox approaches to altering psychological variables in order to measure their impact on fear and anxiety disorders.
Drop by 4TH SPACE on September 30 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for a hands-on demonstration of how their work is helping to treat anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder and improve treatment outcomes of cognitive behavioural therapy.
Play the pain
As part of the display zones, visitors are invited to engage with the media spa that runs until October 17. Learn how communication and information technology can be used to alleviate certain health concerns.
Play the Pain is an upcoming two-day program that runs on October 1 and 2.
Khalili-Mahani is the lead scientist behind Play the Pain, which is a gamified version of a pain diary. It enables chronic pain patients to actively participate in researching their own discomfort by tracking and evaluating their emotions and sensations and then presenting them with non-pharmacological treatment options.
Public Scholars Showcase
On October, 3, Concordia’s 2019 public scholars Naghmeh Bandari, Heather Herriot, Amir Molaei and 2018 public scholar Milan Valyear will discuss their latest health-related research. Their topics range from innovations in surgical robots to pathways to successful aging.
Health Talks: Accelerating health: what’s technology’s role
Health Talks brings together graduate students and faculty from six labs to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about preventive health and technology. Their research spans a range of topics, from the possibilities of synthetic biology to the contributions of engineering to cardiology.
Speakers include:
- Muthukumaran Packirisamy, Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design and Innovation;
- Bahareh Behboodi, graduate student, IMPACT Lab: Image Processing and Characterization of Tissue
- Lyes Kadem, director, Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Lab
- Brittany Intzandt, graduate student, Vascular Imaging Lab
- Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, Concordia University Research Chair in Sleep, Neuroimaging and Cognitive Health
- Kathy Mu, graduate student, International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition team
Visit the 4TH SPACE website to learn more about the upcoming Creative Arts Therapies and Innovations in Health programs at Concordia.