In the presentation, I will introduce the research and recent findings of our team in the field of measuring brain biopotentials. It turns out that these psychobiological signals reflect ongoing information processing, human states, and sometimes even some of our ...

The treatment of mental health problems is related to how psychopathology is diagnosed. As people rarely fit into a single diagnostic category in terms of their symptoms and mental disorders often co-occur, alternative models have been developed alongside traditional categorical ...

Which illnesses are more common among people with low well-being? Are these associations causal? Let’s go one step back and look at the causes of well-being, such as a person’s physical environment, income, occupation, unemployment, educational and social resources, experience ...

Mental health and wellbeing is not just an individual condition, but is shaped by a combination of social relationships, structural health support and community functioning, among other factors. A problem- and diagnosis-centred approach to mental health focuses too much on ...

Despite considerable progress in modern biosensors, significant limitations remain in terms of robustness and reusability, primarily due to the use of biologically derived recognition receptors, which are inherently labile and often lack chemical and thermal stability. As a result, replacing ...

Mare presents results from research conducted in Estonia about factor influencing individual and institutional satisfaction in Estonia. We learn, if satisfaction with health care system is indeed satisfaction with healthcare and what shapes individual life satisfaction.

Wellbeing is both a state and a trait. That is, some of the wellbeing variance is within people (change), some between people (stability). Which source of variance is larger? And why does this matter?

Why does the issue of school choice tend to spark near-hysterical reactions every spring in Estonia, a country committed to the comprehensive school model? How can school places be distributed in a knowledge society that values diversity of choice — ...

Brain signals recorded with electroencephalography (EEG) may look like random noise at first glance, yet within this “noise” lies valuable information about our mental state. To uncover it, we develop and apply a variety of EEG markers. In the seminar ...

Well-being sciences are classically associated with the fields such as psychology, public health and social sciences. This is also reflected in the structure of EstWell, where the majority of research groups are representatives of these fields. However, innovation has more ...

Luiz Pessoa (University of Maryland) is a leading figure in both psychology and neuroscience. His research has meticulously dismantled the traditional separation of cognitive and emotional processes in the brain, laying the groundwork for integrated human neuroscience. In this talk, ...

The annual grand gathering of the members and friends of the Centre of Excellence for Well-Being Sciences EstWell Annual Conference Programme* *Sessions marked with ENG are held in English; all others are in Estonian. The programme may have changes. 25 ...