It is a part of every waking moment of our lives. But whenever scientists have tried to study it, consciousness has slipped through their fingers. Will we ever understand why we have it and how […]
Category: Interview
“We made the patients become a dolphin swimming in the ocean”
“What is a guy like you doing in a place like this?” Simply put, that’s what we were curious to find about american scientist John Krakauer, from Johns Hopkins University. Since 2014, has […]
“We had a behavior that could be measured as a physical property”
Did some genes evolve to “tell” a little desert mouse whether to dig a big or a small burrow, and whether to equip it with an emergency exit? Did other genes evolve to […]
“I was always curious about how the small details add up to form the world we are living in”
(Legendado em português) Sabine Renninger still remembers the day she had her first samples under the microscope in school. The possibility of expanding her view of the world and zooming into the unknown […]
“The immune system is needed for repair and lifelong maintenance of the brain”
Two decades ago, it was anathema to go against the established idea that the nervous system doesn’t need the immune system at all for its protection or repair. But Michal Schwartz, who pioneered […]
“The most fun has always been the thinking part”
(Disponível em português) Marta Moita is a Principal Investigator at the Champalimaud Research, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon. Her lab focuses on unraveling how animals use cues from conspecifics to guide their own […]
Interview with Richard Hahnloser
Richard Hahnloser leads the Birdsong Group at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich. His lab performs theory-driven systems neuroscience to investigate brain functions that can be characterized by a computational goal encompassing […]
Interview with Adriano Aguzzi
Adriano Aguzzi is based at the Institute of Neuropathology, University Hospital of Zurich. His lab focuses on understanding the pathogenetic mechanisms involved in neurodegenerative diseases using scrapie as a disease model. Another main […]
Interview with Albino Oliveira-Maia
Albino Oliveira-Maia studied Medicine at the University of Porto and obtained his PhD at Duke University Medical Center in the USA. He is currently a resident in psychiatry and mental health at Centro Hospitalar […]
Interview with Joaquim Alves da Silva
Joaquim Alves da Silva, 32, has interrupted his clinical work to enroll in a PhD research project in neuroscience. However, he still teaches Psychiatry at Faculdade de Ciências Médicas in Universidade Nova de […]