Aristea Ladas

Dr. Ladas earned her PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2013, focusing on neuroplasticity and the effects of bilingualism on attention across the lifespan. She served as scientific coordinator in the Long Lasting Memories project (European Commission), researching neuroplasticity in older adults, and contributed to additional EU-funded projects. She has also collaborated with the University of Almeria, Spain, as a researcher.

Currently, Dr. Ladas is an Assistant Professor at the University of York Europe Campus. She is a Researcher at the Neuroscience Research Center (NEUREC) and a Research Associate at the South East European Research Centre (SEERC), within the Cognitive Neuroscience Research Cluster. She is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) with the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), and a member of the ACM Student Chapter. She has experience working with children with autism and learning difficulties, further informing her research and teaching practices.

• Introduction to Psychology
• Topics in Psychology
• Sensation and Perception
• Philosophy of Science and Ethics
• Interdisciplinary Psychology
• Child Development
• Reasoning & Critical Thinking for Psychologists
• Contemporary Issues in Educational Psychology
• Research Project Workshops.

My main research interest is the study of large-scale brain networks (consciousness & creativity), in neurotypical & neurodiverse populations, using neuroscientific methods during sleep, while combining the field of philosophy to better understand them. Sleep and involved cognitive functions, specifically Emotion Regulation, is a research interest that flows naturally from this! In addition, I am interested in neoplasticity and dopaminergic mechanisms of emotion and behavior . These research interests of mine range mainly in the context of cancer and addictions.

ORCID profile: Research, scholarship, and innovation activities

Redžepagić, S. & Ladas, A. I. (in press). Prospective Memory, Sustained attention and Response Inhibition in Poly-substance Dependants stable on Methadone-Replacement Treatment. Substance Use & Misuse.

Krachtis, A., Karkala, A., Frantzidis, C. A., Gkivogkli, P. T., Ladas, A. I., Strollo, F., & Kourtidou-Papadeli, C. (2022). Arterial Stiffness Alterations in Simulated Microgravity and Reactive Sledge as a Countermeasure. High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension, 29(1), 65–74. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40292-021-00486-2

Vivas,A. B., Chrysochoou, E., Ladas, A. I., & Salvari, V. (2020). The moderating effect of bilingualism on lifespan cognitive development. Cognitive Development, 55, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100890.

The efficacy of the differential outcomes procedure as a cognitive intervention in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease. Vivas, A. B., Ypsilanti, A., Ladas, A. I., Kounti, F., Tsolaki, M., Estevez, A. F. (2018). Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 13, 1-7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00364.

​Vivas, A. B., Ladas, A. I., Salvari, V., & Chrysochoou, E. (2017). Revisiting the bilingual advantage in attention in low SES Greek-Albanians: does the level of bilingual experience matter?. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32:6, 743-756, DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1271442

Bamidis, P. D., Fissler, P., Papageorgiou, S. G., Zilidou, V., Konstantinidis, E. I., Billis, A., S., et al. (2015). Gains in cognition through combined cognitive and physical training: dosage and severity of neurocognitive disorder matters. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 7. doi:  10.3389/fnagi.2015.00152.

Ladas, A.I., Carroll, D.J. & Vivas, A. B. (2015). Attentional processes in low-socioeconomic status bilingual children: are they modulated by the amount of bilingual experience? Child Development, 86, 557-78. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12332.

Frantzidis, C., Ladas, A. I., Vivas, A. B., Tsolaki, M. & Bamidis, P. D. (2014). Cognitive and physical training for the elderly: evaluating outcome efficacy by means of neurophysiological synchronization. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 93,1-11.

Ladas, A. I., Frantzidis, C., Bamidis, P. D. & Vivas, A. B. (2014). Eye blink rate as a biological marker of Mild Cognitive Impairment. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 93, 12-16.

​Billis, A. S., Konstantinidis, E. I., Zilidou, V., Wadhwa, K., Ladas, A. & Bamidis, P. D. (2013). Biomedical Engineering and elderly support. International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare, 2, 21-37.

Semertzidou, A., Frantzidis, C. A.,  Ladas, A.,Karagianni, M., Tsolaki, M. &  Bamidis, P. D. (2012). How aging affects emotional processing? Neurophysiological evidence using passive emotion evocative stimuli selected from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS). International Journal of Psychophysiology, 85, 408-409.

Ladas, A. I., Vivas, A. B., Frantzidis, C., & Bamidis, P.(2011). Spontaneous blink rate as a biological marker of dopamine function in old adults with mild cognitive impairment. Neuroscience Letters, 500, Supplement 1, e45

Frantzidis, C., Semertzidou, A., Ladas, A. I., Karagianni, M., Lithari, C., Kyrillidou, A., Grigoriadou, E., Klados, M. A., Vivas, A. B., Kounti, F., Tsolaki, M., Pappas, C., & Bamidis, P. (2011). Detecting neurophysiological alterations during Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia using wavelet-based energy computation and a Mahalanobis Distance classifier. Neuroscience Letters, 500, Supplement 1, e53

Bamidis, P.,  Frantzidis, C., Kyrillidou, A., Ladas, A. I., Grigoriadou, E., Billis, A., Konstantinidis, E., Zilidou, V., Mouzakidis, C., Semertzidou, A., Karagianni, M., Vivas, A. B., Tsolaki, M. (2011). Cognitive training, physical exercise and information technology: Neuroscientific challenges and first evidence from the LLM project  Neuroscience Letters, 500, Supplement 1, e6