Neuroimaging Techniques Help Identify Brain Alterations in Patients with Epilepsy

An international research consortium used neuroimaging techniques to analyze the brains of more than 3,800 volunteers in different countries. The largest study of its kind ever conducted set out to investigate anatomical similarities and differences in the brains of individuals with different types of epilepsy and to seek markers that could help with prognosis and treatment.

Participants in the…

Virtual Reality, Videogames and Robots as Tools in Physical Rehabilitation

Technologies originally designed for entertainment, such as electronic games, gesture recognition sensors and virtual reality (VR) goggles, can make rehabilitation sessions more enjoyable and effective as well as help patients with motor limitations recover at least part of their autonomy.

Two projects with this aim were presented at the end of March during the 4th BRAINN Congress, held at the…

New Tool Could Facilitate Search for Disease-causing Genetic Variants

Scientists affiliated with the Brazilian Initiative on Precision Medicine (BIPMed) are working in partnership with Seven Bridges, a multinational that specializes in biomedical data analysis, to build a new tool that could facilitate the identification of disease-causing genetic variants.

The novelty was presented at a workshop held at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo Stateon…

ABCérebro: uma TV para aprender neurociência

No ar desde 2013, o ABCérebro é um programa de TV para divulgação de conhecimento científico sobre o cérebro humano criado pelo Centros de Pesquisa, Inovação e Difusão (CEPID) Instituto de Pesquisa sobre Neurociências e Neurotecnologia (Brainn na sigla em inglês) e pelo programa Cooperação Interinstitucional de Apoio à Pesquisa sobre Cérebro (CInAPCe) ‒ os caras são criativos pra siglas ‒ sob…