OVERVIEW
Psychology researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas’ Center for BrainHealth are performing simultaneous brain scans on pairs of young adult subjects to examine activity patterns for signs that indicate strong social interactions during group intervention.“”
“Hyperscanning is a great tool for looking at real-time, dynamic interactions between individuals. I think we can learn a great deal by applying it in this manner and asking the right questions.”
- Francesca Filbey, PhD
Bert Moore Chair in BrainHealth, Center for BrainHealth
Professor of Psychology, UT Dallas
Dr. Francesca Filbey MS’97, the Bert Moore Chair in BrainHealth and professor of psychology in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, is a co-principal investigator on the project, which will analyze the effectiveness of a therapy called group motivational interviewing (group MI) for youths struggling with alcohol use to help bolster and support behavior change, reducing their alcohol use. The research is supported by a five-year, $1.17 million grant (5R01AA030678) from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health. Filbey and her team will take advantage of the resources of the Sammons BrainHealth Imaging Center to conduct the hyperscanning experiments, which allow researchers to collect simultaneously the neurological activity of two people while they interact. Read the full coverage at the UT Dallas New Center
