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Mihalis Doumas

Dr

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5323-6258

  • Room 02.518 - David Keir Building

    United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

20052019

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Personal profile

Particulars

I completed my undergraduate (1999) and masters degrees (2001) in Sport and Exercise Science in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. I moved to the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham where I did my PhD (2001-2005) and then to Belgium to work as a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven, initially funded by a university project (2006-2008) and then by a research fellowship from the research foundation of Flanders (2008-2011). Since August 2011 I am a Lecturer in Psychology at Queen’s.

Research Interests

I am interested in the way sensory information (visual, vestibular and proprioceptive) and cognitive resources are used to control movement. My current work focuses on postural control by assesing sensory integration and cognitive resource allocation in this process in neurotypical, atypical and clinical populations including young and older adults, adults with autism, Parkinson's disease and major depression. The methods I use include posturography, motion capture, brain stimulation (TMS, tDCS) and neuroimaging (fNIRS).

Teaching

I teach in two undergraduate modules and I supervise Undergraduate, Masters and PhD students

PSY2064 Perception and Psychobiology

PSY3098 Ageing: Mind, Brain and Behaviour

 

Other

Programme Director, MSc in Psychological Science (Conversion) 

I supervise the following PhD students

Primary supervisor

Rebekah Knox

Anna Carapellotti

Charlotte Hennah

 

Second supervisor

Theofilos Valkanidis

James Stafford

Teresa Gomes Arrulo

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Projects

R1067PSY: The role of cognition in older adults' postural adaptation and sensory reweighting

Doumas, M.

01/08/2011 → 31/12/2014

Project: Research

Research Output

Slowed sensory reweighting and postural illusions in older adults: the moving platform illusion

Craig, C. & Doumas, M., 11 Feb 2019, In : Journal of Neurophysiology. 121, p. 690 –700 11 p.

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    Putting proprioception for balance to the test: Contrasting and combining sway referencing and tendon vibration

    Doumas, M., Valkanidis, T. C. & Hatzitaki, V., 19 Oct 2018, In : Gait and Posture.

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    The role of gender in the association between personality and task priority in older adults’ dual-tasking while walking

    Agmon, M., Armon, G., Denesh, S. & Doumas, M., 02 Jan 2018, In : BMC Geriatrics. 18, 1, p. 1-8

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    Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Shows Minimal, Measure-Specific Effects on Dynamic Postural Control in Young and Older Adults: A Double Blind, Sham-Controlled Study

    Craig, C. E. & Doumas, M., 18 Jan 2017, In : PLoS ONE. 12, 1, 21 p.

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    Cognitively and socially induced stress affects postural control

    Doumas, M., Morsanyi, K. & Young, W. R., 14 Nov 2017, In : Experimental Brain Research. 10 p.

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    Activities

    International Congress of Physiotherapy 2020 "Sensory Integration in Physical Therapy: From Perception to Treatment "

    Mihalis Doumas (Invited speaker)
    08 Feb 2020

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

    File

    External Examiner, PhD viva voce, Fuengfa Khobkhun, Liverpool John Moores University.

    Mihalis Doumas (Examiner)
    04 Sep 2019

    Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination

    Luis Augusto Teixeira

    Mihalis Doumas (Host)
    Jun 2019 → Jun 2021

    Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor

    Public presentation, Belfast Parkinson's UK support group. 'Postural control in healthy and clinical populations: Focus on Parkinson’s'

    Mihalis Doumas (Invited speaker)
    15 May 2019

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

    Invited talk, RIDC NeuroMat, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Title' Sensory integration in balance control: Effects of healthy ageing and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)'

    Mihalis Doumas (Invited speaker)
    16 Apr 2019

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

    Press / Media

    Capturing Grace documentary screening

    Mihalis Doumas & Anna Carapellotti

    01/05/2019

    1 Media contribution

    Press/Media: Other

    Impact

    Contribution to BBC Radio Ulster series: Science and Stuff, part 2, How Music Works

    Mihalis Doumas (Participant), Anna Carapellotti (Participant)

    Impact

    Improving motor and non-motor symptoms in people with Parkinson's disease through dance

    Mihalis Doumas (Participant), Anna Carapellotti (Participant)

    Impact