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Horea Oltean, PhD.

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Horea Oltean, PhD.

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Interese de cercetare:

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Ruben Nechifor – Research

Research Interests:

  • Various fMRI and Clinical MRI studies for different psychopathologies and clinical pathologies
  • Develop and implement new pulse sequences and new protocols for improving the existing/standard techniques and protocols of fMRI and Clinical MRI in order to obtain a better and earlier image signature of tissue microstructure.
  • Perfusion and Diffusion MRI studies on cancer tumours with specific mutation status and their correlation with tissue histopathology and with different associate psychological profiles.
  • Assess the differences between relapses and pseudo-relapses tumours on the brain in correlation with the tissues histopathology and the associate psychological profile using various MRI techniques.
  • Explore various prognostics related with progression-free survival and overall survival of various tumour types in comparison with their histopathology and the observed psychological profiles.
  • Various fMRI and Clinical MRI studies for appraising the psychological and clinical features, their correlation with tissues histopathology and various psychological profiles and for assessing the outcome responses to various/new psychotherapies and clinical therapies.

Projects & Grants:

  • Technical Expert Clinical MRI Equipment within the project POC/448/1/1/127725 – High Field Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging Infrastructure – INSPIRE, 2022 – 2023
  • COST Action CA18206, Glioma MR Imaging 2.0, 2019 – 2023, www.glimr.eu

Principal Investigator in the following grants:

  • Assessing the neural correlates of highly religious christian, moderate religious christian and nonreligious belief through fMRI and structural MRI analysis, The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of OXFORD, John Templeton Foundation, 2021 – 2023 https://cee.ianramseycentre.ox.ac.uk/grants?fbclid=IwAR2tegIWrvICjHkDc1pb0d6Vra0ITrFXli3x8gxNPRSRdHkxEIhH9l59rv0
  • The importance of imaging analysis in tumour pathology in the Oro – Maxillo – Facial territory, Babeș – Bolyai University in partnership with Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj – Napoca, România, 2021 – 2022
  • Developing novel biomarkers starting from default diffusion MRI data, Babeș – Bolyai University Grant, GTC 35277/18.11.2020, 2020 – 2022
  • Advanced MRI and fMRI at STAR – UBB, Advanced Fellowship Inter UBB, Oct – Nov. 2020.
  • The neurobiological effects in terms of brain activity and network connectivity of rational versus irrational belief explored through fMRI, Babeș – Bolyai University Grant, 2019 – 2021  
  • Social jetlag, sleep deprivation and their correlates in relation with brain structure and brain activity assessed through resting – state fMRI, Babeș – Bolyai University in partnership with Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj – Napoca, România, 2019 – 2021

Anca Dobrean – Research

Research Interests:

  • Evidence based assessment
  • Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Children and Adolescents 
  • Child anxiety, ADHD
  • Parenting

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Simona Stefan – Research

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Research Interests:

  • Anxiety disorders – mechanisms and treatment
  • Efficacy of psychological treatments
  • Schema therapy and third wave interventions
  • Psychology of interpersonal relations

Projects & Grants:

2020-2022: project director UBB, 35288/18.11.2020– “Schema focused therapy for transdiagnostic worry” (Babes-Bolyai internal grant) 2018-2019: Fulbright Grant, Council for International Exchange of Scholars/Institute of International Education (IIE/CIES) and the Romanian – U.S. Fulbright Commission, 665/25/06/2018 – Positive Emotion Dysregulation and Behavioral Avoidance in Relation to Social Anxiety and Depression Symptoms 2019 – 2021: project director of PN III –P1 – 1.1 – TE – 2016 – 1054, (grant earned in competition by Ioana Cristea, Ph.D.) 2016-2017: project director UBB, 31814/23.03.2016 – “Care-avoidant versus care-seeking illness anxiety – etiological mechanisms” (Babes-Bolyai internal grant) 2012 – 2014: project director PN-II-RU-PD-2012-3-0168 -,, Explaining irritable bowel syndrome – the role of worry and worry-related constructs” (UMF Iuliu Haţieganu, Cluj – Napoca) 2013 – 2017: PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1797 – Promoting active aging – a computerized platform for cognitive training and rehabilitation (ActiveCORE) (project member) 2015 – 2017: PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-1316 – Moderators of treatment response to cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression; what works best and for whom (project member) 2015 – 2017: PNI-II-RU-TE-2014-4-0490 – A randomized clinical trial for investigating the efficacy of a smartphone application for mammary biopsy symptom management: Bio h-app (project member) 2008 – 2014: Grant awarded by the Albert Ellis Institute, New York, „Rational emotive and cognitive-behavior therapy versus Cognitive therapy versus Acceptance and commitment therapy in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (project member)

Silviu Matu – Research

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Razvan Predatu – Research

Research Interests:

  • Emotion regulation difficulties and their role in various psychological disorders (depressive and anxiety disorders, sleep disorders).
  • Negative beliefs about emotions and their role in (meta)emotional functioning.
  • Cognitive-behavioral interventions to optimize performance (cognitive-behavioral coaching) and technology-based interventions.

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Radu Șoflău – Research

Research Interests:

  • Assessing the effectiveness of psychological interventions for mental disorders;
  • Identifying risk and resilience factors for mental disorders;
  • Investigating confounders and effect modifiers.

Projects & Grants:

  • Investigating the relative effectiveness of psychological interventions for psychosis;
  • Testing the relative effectiveness of ACT and CBT interventions for depressive symptoms.

Oana David – Research

Research Interests:

  • Personalized technology-based interventions for stress management and emotion regulation

Projects & Grants:

Current grants directed

1.     June 2022-June2024 – Director, Grant Grant PED Experimental Demonstrative Projects, Title REThink ACADEMY: Helping universities to effectively care for the mental health of college students in the digital age, UEFISCDI (548.000 RON;

2.     January 2021 – december 2023 – Director, Grant PCE, REThink Emotions:Game Based Online Assessment of Emotion-Regulation Abilities And Personalised Prevention Of Emotional Disorders In Children and Adolescents, UEFISCDI (1.197.556 RON, PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2170)

3.     August 2020 – August 2022 – Director, Grant PED, REThinkWELL: An integrative evidence-based platform for the prevention of emotional disorders in children and adolescents, UEFISCDI (550.000 RON; PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-3837)

4.     2020-2023, Coordinator of the National Consortium in Romania (BBU and other three universities) affiliated to the WHO World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) Initiative and coordinated by Harvard Medical School. Full title: WellbeingAcademy-CaringUniversities – National Consortium Student Mental Health Needs Assessment Survey.

5. 2021-present, National coordinator, WellbeingAcademy-CaringUniversities –  Student Mental Health Support Interventions at PsyTech-Babes-Bolyai Psychology Clinic BBU.

Other grants

February 2021 – present Consultant, Digital media use and socio-emotional development of toddlers: vulnerability and protection, director Dr. Marie Danet, Associate professor at University of L’Ille.

June 2014-July 2017 –  Project Director, Joint Applied Research Projects PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4, project title: REThink: Evidence-based therapeutic online game for child and adolescent mental health, National Council for Scientific Research (300.000EUR).

 June 2014-2017, Researcher, Grant Dcombat: A Computerized Preventative and Therapeutic Intervention for Depression, Programme “Research within Priority Sectors”- implemented under the European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism 2009-2014, Grant coordinated by Babes-Bolyai University, Partners: CheckWare AS; Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

March 2013 – September 2014, Expert mental health and coaching, Grant EduCare FP7, European Commision.

March-September 2012, Researcher, iSofie-Internet based Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder in Romania, Coordinator: Babes-Bolyai University, Partner Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweeden.

Diana Nechita – Research

Research Interests:

  • Self-conscious emotions and their relationship with psychopathology
  • Naturalistic interventions in the context of eating disorders
  • Self-compassion as a protective factor in psychopathology
  • Evidence-based psychological interventions

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Daniel David – Research

Research Interests:

  • The role of cognitive mechanisms, both explicit (e.g., autobiographical
    memory) and implicit (e.g., implicit memory/learning; priming) in generating subjective/emotional (cognition-emotion relation), behavioral, and psycho-physiological human responses
  • Evidence based psychotherapy, with a focus on clinical trials, with multilevel analyses, concerning (1) outcomes (i.e., efficacy and/or effectiveness); (2) theory/mechanisms of change (both psychological and neurobiological); and (3) economical aspects (e.g., cost-effectiveness, cost-utility)
  • The use of technological developments in clinical psychology/ psychotherapy (i.e., virtual/augmented reality therapy; robotherapy)

Projects & Grants: (selection):

  • European Commission II: DREAM Development of Robot-Enhanced therapy for children with AutisM spectrum disorders (2014 – 2018) (coord. partener)
  • Education for Care – EDUCARE, 527360-LLP-2012-IT-GRUNDVIG-GMP, Leonardo da Vinci (coord. partener)
  • CNFIS, Fond de dezvoltare instituțională:  CNFIS-FDI-2019-0351 Susţinerea cercetării de excelenţă la Universitatea Babes-Bolyai la centenar 1919-2019 (director)
  • SEE Fonduri Structurale: 4NORM-ality Îmbunătățirea Serviciilor Corecționale în România prin Implementarea Principiului Normalității 2019 – 2022 (coordonator partener)
  • MCI, PNIII-1.2PDI-PFC-C1-PFE-404 – Infrastructura strategică la Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai în contextul dezvoltării de tehnologii noi și emergente 2018-2020 (director)
  • UEFISCDI, PNIII – P4 – Cercetare fundamentală și de frontieră, PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016 -Înţelegerea şi modelarea structurilor spaţio-temporale ale inegalităţilor şi polarizării în relaţie cu caracteristicile psihologice – STIP, 2018-2022 (director)
  • UEFISCDI Parteneriate SWARA: Mobile System for Rehabilitative Vocal Assistance of Surgical Aphonia, 2014 – 2016 (coord. partener)
  • CNCSIS Grant PNCDI-MEdC: Rolul psihoterapiei cognitiv-comportamentale în tratamentul chirurgical parodontal: un studiu clinic controlat, 2009-2011, (director)
  • CNCSIS Grant CEEX-MEdC (Capacităţi): O Platformă de Psihoterapie Prin Realitate Virtuală., 2007-2009 (director)
  • CNCSIS Grant CEEX-MEdC (Proiecte complexe): Eficacitatea psihoterapiei versus medicaţiei non-stimulante în ADHD la copiii cu vârsta între 6 şi 11 ani; Un studiu clinic controlat multicentric, 2006-2009 (director)
  • CNCSIS Grant CEEX-MEdC (Grant postdoctoral): Psihoterapii validate ştiinţific, 2006-2008 (director)
  • CNCSIS Grant tip A: Psihoterapie versus medicaţie în tratamentul tulburării depresive majore; Un studiu clinic randomizat, 2004-2007 (director)