Anthoula Mantis
Sessions in which Anthoula Mantis attends
- Acute Effects of Urolithin A on Mitochondrial Respiration in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells of ApoE-/- Mice
- Background: During atherosclerotic plaque development, vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) undergo dedifferentiation, resulting in a synthetic, les...
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- White matter microstructure associated with functional connectivity changes following short-term learning of a visuomotor sequence
- Efficient neural transmission is crucial for optimal brain function, yet the plastic potential of white matter (WM) has long been overlooked. Growi...
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- Cellular senescence is similar between regional adipose tissue depots in individuals with obesity and type 2 diabetes
- Background: Cellular senescence, cell growth cycle arrest, is a marker of cellular aging. Obesity is considered a disease of accelerated aging as i...
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- Sex differences in cerebrovascular reactivity and cerebral blood flow across the lifespan
- Evidence consistently demonstrates that aging is associated with declines to cerebrovascular health. Sex distinctions have been identified as well,...
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- Art-based Rehabilitation Therapy (ART) for Sensorimotor Recovery Post-stroke: A Pilot Study
- Post stroke, ~85 of survivors present with upper limb (UL) contralateral hemiparesis (Dobkin, 2003). There has been a sufficient amount of literatu...
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- Loneliness and sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study
- Although social distancing directives are important public health measures to reduce the spread of...
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- Body Composition and Morphological Asymmetries in University Level Soccer Players
- Context: While soccer is considered a lateral dominant sport, few studies have examined if limb dominancy leads to asymmetries in body composition ...
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- Heart Rate Recovery & Oxygen Recovery Kinetics in Individuals with Comorbid Insomnia and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Before and After Exercise alone or in combination with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia
- Background: Recovery kinetics following cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) have yet not been described in people with OSA and comorbid insomni...
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- The Child Focused Injury Risk Screening Tool (ChildFIRST) - Normative Values, Correlations, and Sex Differences for a group of Children aged 8-12.
- Childhood obesity and physical inactivity are growing problems across Canada, so the concept of ph...
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- Measurement of Centre of Pressure using the Wii Balance Board in Older Adults with Simulated Visual Impairment
- Postural stability is a complex skill dependent upon the coordination of motor, sensory and cognitive systems (Woollacott & Shumway-Cook, 2002)...
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- In Vivo Investigate the Effect of the Lactate on the Apoptosis, Necrosis, and Survival of the of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
- Background: Different exercise intensity has a various effect on the immune system. Lactate is one...
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- The Belief in Health Benefits of Digital Play Modulates Physiological Responses to Games Played for Cognitive Benefits
- Background: To create games that target older adults' interests in engaging in cognitively-boosting activities is a rising trend [1,2]. But, the no...
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- The Potential of Probiotics in Preventing Diet-Induced Mitochondrial Dysfunction
- According to the oxidative stress theory, reactive species are key drivers of inflammation and cardiovascular disease (1). The electron transport c...
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- Investigating Remotely Delivered Strategies that Promote Physical Activity Participation in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Scoping Review
- The effects of physical inactivity among older adults have been established as a "public health crisis" because of their heightened risk of cardiov...
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- Body composition asymmetries in university ice hockey players and their implications for lower back pain and lower limb injury
- Introduction: Right to left asymmetries in body composition has been examined across many sports, suggesting possible implications for lower back p...
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9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Opening remarks
- 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | 15 minutes
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Student poster presentations
- 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 30 minutes
- The following posters will be presented:11:00am-11:05amThe Potential of Probiotics in Preventing Diet-Induced Mitochondria...
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Clinical translation of diffuse optical methods
- 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM | 45 minutes
- Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) are two established techniques which allow monitoring brain health ...
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2:45 PM
2:45 PM
- Student poster presentations
- 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 30 minutes
- The following posters will be presented:2:45pm-2:50pmThe Child Focused Injury Risk Screening Tool (ChildFIRST) - Normative...
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Sleep and cognitive health: neural mechanisms and clinical perspectives
- 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | 15 minutes
- Sleep is important for memory consolidation and cognitives performances during the day. There is increasing evidence that brain o...
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9:15 AM
9:15 AM
- Children, Teens, Sleep, and School
- 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | 45 minutes
- This talk will discuss sleep of children as they transition to teens in the context of research that examines associations between brain systems...
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10:45 AM
10:45 AM
- Student poster presentations
- 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | 30 minutes
- The following posters will be presented:10:45am-10:50amThe Belief in Health Benefits of Digital Play Modulates Physiologic...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Sexual dimorphism in clock gene function in the striatum
- 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM | 15 minutes
- Circadian clock genes are widely expressed in mammalian brain. Despite considerable knowledge about the role of these genes in the generation of...
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9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Quantifying connectivity: Applications across the lifespan
- 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | 15 minutes
- Regional brain function is determined by its local structure and connectivity. I will present work from our lab that strives to quantify connect...
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10:45 AM
10:45 AM
- Student poster presentations
- 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | 30 minutes
- The following posters will be presented:10:45am-10:50amMeasurement of Centre of Pressure using the Wii Balance Board in Older Adu...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Targeted executive function training to improve mobility and cognition in older adults
- 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM | 15 minutes
- Safe mobility is vital to the functional independence of older adults. Executive functions such as working memory updating and dividing attention p...
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9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Rock your talk
- 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 2 hours
- An innovative workshop aimed to help attendees develop effective presentation skills. Colleen brings a unique actor’s perspective to communicati...
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1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- PERFORM multidisciplinary research
- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 2 hours
- Join us to learn about the multidisciplinary research taking place at the PERFORM Centre from Concordia’s top scientists. The student scientific...
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