What if we could actually see what individual neurons do in real time inside a living brain?

CNP researchers, Michael Orger and Sabine Renninger, tell all about how this is now possible to “Futuro Hoje” from SIC newscast.

Out of the 278 research projects that applied to the 2012 BIAL Foundation call only 27% of the projects were granted and CNP received 6 of these grants.

Congratulations to Joseph Paton, Adam Kampff, Catherine French, Michael Orger, Eugenia Chiappe and Ekaterina Vinnik.

Lisboa – Para pesquisadores brasileiros, a opção de estudar e trabalhar em Portugal vai além da facilidade de ter o mesmo idioma. As condições dos laboratórios, o acesso a recursos e a facilidade de contato com cientistas da União Europeia têm levado muitos brasileiros a se fixar em terras lusitanas.

Source: Agência Brasil

Evidence from previous studies has shown that the dorsal medial striatum is necessary for goal-directed actions while the dorsal lateral striatum is necessary for habitual actions. What was not known, and this new study published by Rui Costa in Nature Communications reveals, is that the orbital frontal cortex (OFC), is critical for shifting between these two types of actions.

A group of 25 students from the “Semester at Sea” ship visit, a study-away program for university students run by the University of Virginia-USA visited the CCU on August 16th.

Can forgetting take on a physical form?

Inbal Israely, a principal investigator at the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme shows, in a study just published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE, what are the mechanisms that mediate the shrinkage and disappearance of neuronal spines.

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After a month and a half of featuring online, the videos of Invest in Our Future – Invest in Science recieved hundreds of votes, dozens of Shares and lots of comments. Here are a couple of highlights:

The Champalimaud Foundation is one of the highlights of the summer issue of EMBO encounters, a magazine from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

“Life sciences in Portugal: progress despite recession” is the title of a text, published in issue 24 of EMBO encounter, dedicated to the Portuguese research private sector, where it is recognized “the potential (of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) to become a world-class research institute”.

Larry Young, a social neuroscience professor and investigator, was invited by Susana Lima’s Lab to talk about his latest research and book “The chemistry between us: love, sex and the science of attraction” in a CNP Colloquium and at a public SeminAr event.

Larry Young’s SeminAr “The Chemistry between us” was the inspiration for this piece just published in Visão magazine. Read the full article here (in PT).

Eugenia Chiappe, explains to Nova Gente magazine the advantages of using the fly to understand how the brain reacts to external stimuli

Read the full article here (PT)