(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 […]

(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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
(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. […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(Disponível em Português) Learning and performance can be enhanced by locomotor activity in mice, concludes a new study. A new study, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience by a team from the Champalimaud Centre […]