Department News

Hayes, Abedi featured in video about Alzheimer’s research collaboration

Northern Light Health produced a video titled “When Memory Fades” about its Alzheimer’s Research Program that involves collaboration with the University of Maine and The Jackson Laboratory. “What if disruption of sleep was the earliest sign of neurodegeneration,” asks Marie Hayes, UMaine psychology professor and co-founder of Activas Diagnostics with Ali Abedi, professor of electrical and computer […]

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APAGS 2020 Psychological Science Research Grant Awarded

Clinical Ph.D candidate, Colin Bosma, has been awarded a competitive 2020 Psychological Science Research Grant from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students for his proposal, “Do Digital Behaviors Describe Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation? Using Smartphone Data to Characterize Physiological and Subjective Responses to Sadness.” The intent of this APAGS-sponsored grant is to fund […]

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Music Training Boosts Cognitive Function and Well-being

For older adults, music training boosts cognitive function and well-being according to a new study led by Rebecca MacAulay, assistant professor of psychology, and Philip Edelman, assistant professor of music education. The study asked whether it was feasible to teach older adults without prior music training how to read music and play the recorder using […]

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Patented Innovation

The University of Maine was recently issued a patent for a device that detects brain injury by measuring sleep movement patterns. This technology will be licensed by Activas Diagnostics, a UMaine spinoff company. The invention is a fitted mattress sheet equipped with more than a dozen sensors that gather information about sleep-wake and respiratory patterns […]

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