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Personal data: eBRAIN-Health

Important information for the participants in the research projects with codes PSI2009-14415-C03-01 and PSI2012-38375-C03-01, conducted between 2009 and 2015 at the Hospital Clínico San Carlos and the Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (LNCyC) of the Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB).

In 2022, the Center for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (C3N) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), formerly LNCyC, joined the eBRAIN-Health project, supported by Horizon Europe and led by Prof. Dr. Petra Ritter (https://ebrain-health.eu/home.html). This project aims to establish a distributed research platform for modeling and simulating complex brain processes, with a particular emphasis on the protection of sensitive data. Additionally, it is linked to the EBRAINS initiative (https://www.ebrains.eu/), an open research infrastructure that centralizes data, tools, and computing facilities for brain research.

The C3N intends to share the data from the aforementioned projects within the eBRAIN-Health framework, with the objective of advancing knowledge on the brain processes associated with Alzheimer’s disease. This data sharing will take place through EBRAINS, ensuring compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and national law through the signature of the appropriate data-sharing agreements to safeguard the participant’s rights.

This use will be exercised under Article 9(2)(g) of the GDPR. Under the seventeenth additional provision of Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on Personal Data Protection and the guarantee of digital rights, the reuse of personal data for health and biomedical research is considered lawful and compatible when, having obtained consent for a specific purpose, the data is reused for purposes or research areas closely related to the scientific field of the original study.

Therefore, in compliance with Article 13 of the GDPR, the intention to reuse this data for the aforementioned purpose is publicly communicated here. Specifically, the participants are informed that:

  • They can exercise their right of access, rectification, or cancellation by reaching out the data controller (Fernando Maestú: fmaestuu@ucm.es) or the Data Protection Officer of the UCM (dpd@ucm.es).
  • Data will be shared through EBRAINS, following a pseudonymization procedure, and ensuring full compliance with the GDPR. The use of the data will be conducted with technical and functional separation between the research teams and those overseeing pseudonymization, with specific security measures adopted to prevent re-identification and unauthorized access by third parties.
  • They may withdraw their consent at any time, without affecting any processing that may have been carried out previously, provided that the exercise of such right does not concern the results of the research.
  • The research has the prior favorable report of the Research Ethics Committee.

Finally, the C3N would like to express its gratitude to the participants for their selfless collaboration. It is through contributions like theirs that advancements are achieved in scientific knowledge.

Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop (IWS) 2024

High-density dry-electrode EEG in LEO spaceflight

Here you can find the contact information of the authors of the projects our group presented in the “Human Research Program Investigators’ Workshop” on February, 13th 2024. We also provide the PDF version of the porters, in case you wan to look at them in a deeper detail.

Thank you for showing interest in our work!

Project’s PIs

Michael E. Funke (Michael.E.Funke@uth.tmc.edu)
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child and Adolescent Neurology & Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology.
Medical Director, MHH Magnetic Source Imaging.
McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Presented poster:
PDF file Brief review of EEG utilization in human spaceflight.

Fernando Maestú (fmaestuu@ucm.es)
Full Professor. Department of Experimental Psychology. School of Psychology.
Director of the Center for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience.
Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Patrique Fiedler (patrique.fiedler@tu-ilmenau.de)
Professor, Data Analysis in Life Sciences group.
Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Informatics. Faculty of Computer Science and Automation.
Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany.
Presented poster:
PDF file EEG signal quality and noise characteristics in spaceflight.

Project’s Associate Researchers

Ricardo Bruña (ricbruna@ucm.es)
Assistant Professor. Department of Radiology, Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy. School of Medicine.
Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Center.
Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Presented posters:
PDF file Dry EEG for functional connectivity assessment in sensor space.
PDF file Reliability of a high-density dry-EEG cap to estimate functional connectivity in sources space.

Pablo Cuesta (pablo.cuesta@ucm.es)
Associate Professor. Department of Radiology, Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy. School of Medicine.
Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Center.
Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Presented poster:
PDF file Brain spectral power alterations associated with head-down tilt bed rest position.

Sandra Pusil (spusil@ucm.es)
Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Center.
Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Presented poster:
PDF file Different EEG alpha power profiles during spaceflight missions – Preliminary results.

Adrián Quivira Lopesino (aquivira@ucm.es)
Research Associate. McGovern Medical School.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Presented poster:
PDF file Power comparison between data from head-down tilt bed rest and during spaceflight.

María Sevilla García (masevi05@ucm.es)
Research Associate. McGovern Medical School.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Presented poster:
PDF file Functional connectivity comparison between head-down tilt bed rest and microgravity during spaceflights.

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