Sotirios Douklias

Dr. Sotirios Douklias graduated in 2001 from the Pedagogical Department of Primary Education of the University of Patras and in 2002 continued his postgraduate studies at the University of Essex in the UK in the field of Cognitive Neuropsychology.

He obtained his PhD in 2006 as a fellow of the University of Essex in Cognitive Evolutionary Neuropsychology. He has been a member of the Research Council of the British Psychological Society (2004-2005) and from 2008 to 2010 he worked at the Department of Psychology of the University of Cyprus as a Visiting Lecturer in Cognitive Neuropsychology

He has also been a trainer of the Pedagogical Institute on Learning Difficulties and Developmental Disorders, as well as a keynote speaker at Training Seminars of the Departments of Primary and Secondary Education of the Ministry of Education.

From 2008 to 2016 at the University of Nicosia, at the European University of Cyprus, but also at the Cyprus University of Technology, teaching courses such as Neuropsychology, Perception and Attention, Psychology of Language and Reading, Learning Difficulties, Cognitive Psychology and many other courses.

He has presented at numerous international conferences, as well as at seminars and University days in Greece, Cyprus and abroad and has published in international scientific journals and chapters of scientific books.

In recent years he has been teaching as a lecturer at the Hellenic Open University and is an instructor at the Cyprus Police Academy.

Since 2010 he is the Director of the Noesis Neurofeedback Center and the first to apply the Neurofeedback method in Cyprus to intervene in a multitude of disorders, such as attention deficit disorder, anxiety disorders, depression, brain damage and neurological disorders.

Professional training

• Advanced Professional Clinical Summit for Neurofeedback Practitioners EEG Info, Berg (Munich), Germany
• QEEG and Evoked Potentials Course HBImed Brain Diagnostics, Berg (Munich), Germany
• Quantitative EEG Analysis and Brainfeedback Training Institute, Florida, USA Neurofeedback Clinical Applications Training
• Introduction to functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Aston University & University of Birmingham Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Magnetic Encephalography (MEG) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
• Electroencephalography (EEG), Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Center for Brain Science (CBS) Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) training University of Essex

Research interests

• Quantitative EEG Analysis Methods and Clinical Applications
• Neurofeedback and Neuroregulatory Techniques in Neuropsychological / Neurological Disorders
• Clinical Electroencephalography and Neuroimaging in clinical practice
• Evoked Potentials (ERPs) and Neurotherapy
• qEEG and interventional methods with Neurofeedback in neuropsychological disorders
• Impairments of reading functions in neurological patients
• Construction and weighting of diagnostic tools for cognitive disorders
• Cognitive and linguistic latent factors influencing the reading and spelling performance of poor and proficient readers in the Greek language
• Evolutionary dyslexia in the Greek language - Cross-linguistic comparison of dyslexia characteristics
• Syntactic awareness and rapid naming of stimuli in developing readers

Professional Membership

• International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR)
• American Psychological Association International Affiliate (APA)
• Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR)