TWINNIBS aims to strengthen the Institute for Medical Research – IMR’s research and innovation (R&I) as well as research management and administration capacities and to develop it into a prospective leading partner in international consortia that can attract strategic investments and R&I funding. TWINNIBS will promote interest in neuroscience research in Serbia and the region, and help to advance it, focusing on the multidisciplinary field of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS). NIBS is a set of techniques for transcranial (non-invasive) modulation of the activity in the specific brain areas and the large-scale brain networks to which they contribute. This is an innovative approach to neuroscience research and, ultimately, clinical treatment of a wide spectrum of neuropsychiatric conditions. TWNINIBS will be a coordination and support tool for IMR to bring NIBS research in Serbia to a new level by partnering with leading European R&I institutions from Denmark, Italy, Germany and Austria. TWNNIBS will include a comprehensive set of cooperation and coordination activities to strengthen the scientific and technological capacities of IMR, including short term mobility, virtual and in-person short term expert visits, workshops and boot-camps. A series of collaborative small-scale projects will be conducted with the personalisation of NIBS as an overarching theme. TWINNIBS will strengthen the IMR research management and administration capacities and foster organizational changes. The Centre for NIBS as well as R&I Project Management Unit will be established within the IMR. TWINNIBS will have a substantial scientific, economic/technological, and societal impact towards outcomes specified in this topic as well as a long-term impact on the R&I in the European space, with a special focus on the Western Balkans region. To realise the full potential of the TWINNIBS project a comprehensive set of communication, dissemination, and exploitation measures will be implemented.

The project is a mobility network aimed at exchange of knowledge and tools across cognitive neuroscientists and students at Univeristy of Zagreb and University of Rijeka (Croatia), University of Belgrade and University Novi Sad (Serbia), University of Klagenfurt (Austria), University of Sarajevo (BiH), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), University of Montenegro (Montenegro), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Jagiellonian University (Poland)

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Bjekić, J., Živanović, M., & Filipović, S. R. (2021). Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Memory Enhancement. Journal of Visual Experiments, 62681. doi: 10.3791/62681Bjekić, J., Živanović, M., Paunović, D., Vulić, K., Konstantinović, U., & Filipović, S. R. (2022). Personalized Frequency Modulated Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Associative Memory Enhancement. Brain Sciences, 12(4), 472. doi:http://10.3390/brainsci12040472

The project sets to explore the neural underpinnings of consciousness through large scale muliticenter studies that focus on collecting MRI data alongsied wide spectrum of behavioural outcomes to build predictive models for normal and pathological cognitive functioning. The colleboration is organized in seven groups: WG1 Neuroarchitectural mapping, WG2 Statistical methods, WG3 – Conscious perception, WG4 Metacognition, WG5 Consciousness, learning, and memory, WG6 – Clinical measures of consciousness, and WG7 – Large-scale data collection – coorinating large sacle data collection sites in Aarhus (Denmark), Krakow (Poland), Brno (Czech Republic), Chiba (Japan) and Cardiff (UK).

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The project seeks to improve our understanding of aphasia as it relates to predictors and prognosis, intervention effectiveness and social impact and re-integration for people with aphasia. It works to increase the availability and validity of multilingual assessments and outcome measures relating to aphasia. In this way the collaboration supports international research activities and increase the availability of clinical tools for people with aphasia who do not speak English and their healthcare professionals. The project gathered scientist form over 30 countries to work within six main groups: WG1 Aphasia Datasets; WG2 Aphasia assessment and outcomes; WG3 Prognosis and predictors of recovery; WG4 Effectiveness of interventions; WG5 Societal impact; W6 Cognition. One of the major outcomes so far has been the development of multilingual aphasia measurement instruments and recommendations for measurement of outcomes in adults with post-stroke aphasia (ROMA) within aphasia treatment studies.

The project was established to facilitate the development of a comprehensive and internationally agreed-on assessment toolkit for older adults targeting the various subtypes of dementia and various aspects of pain, including pain diagnostics, cognitive examination and guidelines for proper assessment. The collaboration created a clinical bedside tool for pain assessment in patients with dementia and cognitive impairments (PAIC). The PAIC tool is aimed to be adapted and validated for use across Europe in order to facilitate common research and to be used in clinical/health care settings.

Second language learners often produce language patterns resembling those of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). The overlap among the features of bilingual and impaired language lead to methodological and clinical confusion, which this Action aimed to resolve in
order to improve language assessment. The project gathered scientist form over 20 countries to work within four main groups: WG1: Syntax and inferences with morphology and semantics; WG2 Narrative and discourse; WG3 Lexical and phonological processing; and WG 4 Executive functions. One of the major outcomes of the collaboration was the development of Cross-Linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS – CLTs), that is now available in 15 languages.

LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) is a computerzed text analysis program that calculates the degree to which various categories of words are used in a text, and can process texts ranging from e-mails to speeches, poems and transcribed natural language in either plain text or Word formats. The Serbian verison of the dictionary (LIWCser) was based on LIWC2007 but it is higly compatible with LIWC2015 as it includes more than 12000 words indexed in over 80 psychologically-relevant categories.