(Disponível em Português) Current thinking about Alzheimer’s disease is that neuronal cell death in the brain is to blame for the cognitive havoc caused by the disease. But a new study suggests that neuronal death […]
Author: Ana Gerschenfeld
Perder neurónios pode por vezes não ser assim tão mau
(Available in English) O consenso actual sobre a doença de Alzheimer é que a morte de neurónios no cérebro é responsável pelo caos cognitivo causado pela doença. Mas um novo estudo sugere que a […]
Florian Engert: “If you say computers will never beat a human… you’re going to lose”
Will we ever understand the brain? Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence? Will Humankind be surpassed by machines? Harvard neuroscientist Florian Engert shares his views on these matters. If you happened to walk by […]
Two seemingly opposing forces in the brain actually cooperate to enhance memory formation
(Disponível em Português) The brain has a way to keep nervous activity in check as we learn new things and consolidate memories. Otherwise, it would gradually “saturate”, losing its ability to store any information at […]
Duas forças aparentemente opostas colaboram para promover a criação de novas memórias no cérebro
(Available in English) O cérebro tem uma forma de controlar a actividade nervosa garantindo que, à medida que aprendemos coisas novas, consolidamos as nossas memórias. Se assim não fosse, acabaria por ficar “saturado”, perdendo […]
Doris Tsao, the woman who cracked the code the brain uses to recognize faces
How can our brain discriminate and identify a particular face among a virtually infinite number of extremely similar faces? Doris Tsao has solved this enigma. In one of his most famous clinical tales, The Man […]
Life of PI: The young woman who decided she could – and would – do science for a living
(Note: the PI, or principal investigator, is the research group leader) In 1996, when she was a young graduate student in biotechnology, Luísa Vasconcelos realized she wanted to do neuroscience research for a living. […]
A serotonina acelera a aprendizagem
(Available in English) Por que é que os tratamentos com antidepressivos como o Prozac funcionam melhor quando aliados a terapias cognitivo-comportamentais, que promovem a aprendizagem de comportamentos positivos nos doentes deprimidos? Um novo estudo […]
Serotonin speeds learning
(Disponível em Português) Why do treatments with antidepressants like Prozac seem to work better when combined with behavioral therapies, which promote the learning of positive behaviors by the depressed patient? A new study suggests […]
Life of PI: In search of the rules that govern the social life of living cells
(Note: the PI, or principal investigator, is the research group leader) For years, Eduardo Moreno has been unraveling how competition for survival between cells in an organism plays out to make it develop healthily […]