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10th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS and 15th
NATIONAL of CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

MONASTERIO SAN MARTÍN PINARIO
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (SPAIN)
16-19 NOVEMBER, 2017 
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 		Fernando Barbosa
University of Porto
PORTUGAL
1 English
Clinical Psychologist with more than 10 years of clinical practice, advanced specialization in Neuropsychology and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Neuroscience). Professor at the University of Porto, Portugal, with teaching positions in subjects related to Neuropsychological Evaluation, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, and Cognitive and Affective Neurosciences. Coordinator of the Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology of the University of Porto, with research interests concerning social cognition in normal and abnormal brain conditions, as well as the emotional processing and its interference in decision making. COST and Horizon 2020 expert in the neuroscience field. Founding member of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, and member of the Task Force on Clinical Neuropsychology of the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations.

INVITED SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT
Psychobiology of aging: Basic and clinical perspectives
The sustained increase in life expectancy is causing Western societies to confront a wide variety of age-related health problems. Some of these problems refer to changes in neurocognitive functioning, arising from the aging brain. Therefore, it is important to study these neurocognitive changes in greater detail, namely identifying affected and preserved domains, examining their relations with the psychobiological mechanisms of the aging brain, and also analyzing individual differences in these processes. In this symposium, we will present findings from two studies that were conducted with the aforementioned objectives. In addition, cognitive neuroscience has provided psychobiological means of intervention in the aged brain, with promising results regarding several cognitive functions. The Neurofeedback technique will be discussed in this symposium as one of such tools, and the results of two studies suggesting its effectiveness to delay the harmful effects of brain aging on cognitive functioning will be presented.