Rui Costa received on June 10th, the National day of Portugal, Camões and the Portuguese Communities, the Honorific order of Portugal – Antiga, Nobilíssima e Esclarecida Ordem Militar de Sant’Iago da Espada, do Mérito Científico, Literário e Artístico.

CNP researchers form a partnership with Open Ephys: an open-source company pioneering the future of electrophysiological recordings.

Open Ephys was founded with the goal of facilitating the work of neuroscientists by providing them with solutions to acquire high-quality, affordable equipment. According to Open Ephys: Our ultimate goal is to create a completely open-source platform for recording neural signals and analysing them in real time.

CNP researchers develop a game that explores the scientific system

EMBARGO July 7th 2014

Imagine you are facing a forked road. Would you turn left, or right? How does your brain translate your decision into movement?

When we turn to the right or to the left, it is the opposite hemisphere of the brain that controls this type of movement, known as contraversive movements. Within the hemisphere, the basal ganglia, and the striatum in particular, a deep region in the brain, where two neural circuits are know to operate, the direct and the indirect pathway, have been shown to be involved in the generation of these movements.

Rui Costa receives the 2014 Louis-Jeantet Young Investigator Career Award.

This award aims to facilitate the work of Rui Costa on the neurobiology of action, for which he had received an ERC Starting Grant in 2009.

Did you know that the CNP has one of the highest percentage of people that travel to work by bicycle in Lisbon?

Pedais.pt has conducted a survey about bicycle commuting across Lisbon and chose the CNP as one of the outstanding spots.

Tiago Marques, an INDP student in the CNP Cortical Circuits Laboratory finished Ironman in Zurich in 11’40’‘!

A new study reveals surprising similarities between the way mammals and flies eat.

What and how we eat is a crucial determinant of health and wellbeing. Model organisms such as fruit flies have provided crucial insights into how our brain decides what and how much to eat. But until now it was not clear how similar eating was in fruit flies and mammals.

In the recent Ar | Respire Connoso event – Mapping the Unknown, three different aspects of how theories help us to understand reality were explored: Historical – Giacomo Rizzolatti spoke about the idea of Mirror Neurons; Theoretical – Zachary Mainen discussed how more or less expansive theories contribute to the mapping of knowledge; E