In a study published last week in the scientific journal PLoS One, researchers at the CNP establish the effect of serotonin on sensitivity to pain.

Champalimaud Foundation opens its doors for another school year.

Since the inauguration of the CCU in 2011, the CF has kept an open door policy – welcoming pre-scheduled school visits to the building on a monthly basis. The CNP plays a key role in these tours, as high school students are guided by CNP members and receive presentations by CNP Principal Investigators.

Raízes da Curiosidade– Roots of Curiosity: Coming up this November!

A project designed by CNP researchers and coordinated by the Cultural Centre of Belem (CCB) results in a performance that explores the meeting point between art and science.

Researchers discover the neural basis of confidence and its effect on decision-making in rats.

Our confidence in what we know guides our behaviour in both trivial and crucial situations. For example, deciding whether to keep waiting for the bus depends on your confidence that the bus will arrive, and your decision to cross a busy road depends on your confidence that no cars are coming. These decisions rely on the consideration: how sure am I that my expectations are correct?

Researchers discover neurones that predict the timing of spontaneous decisions.

You’re waiting at a bus stop, expecting the bus to arrive any time. You watch the road. Nothing yet. A little later you start to pace. More time passes. Maybe there is some problem, you think. Finally, you give up and raise your arm and hail a taxi. Just as you pull away, you glimpse the bus gliding up. Did you have a choice to wait a bit longer? Or was giving up too soon the inevitable and predictable result of a chain of neural events?

CNP workshop explores what can two or many brains do that one cannot.

Máxima Magazine recruited CNP principal investigators to take a step for equality while wearing high heels.

Dia da Deliberação | Deliberation Day was a collaborative event between CNP researchers, members of the science outreach initiative, Ar | Respire connosco, and the Portuguese Government.

The event was held at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown auditorium, in Lisbon during the afternoon of October 25th, as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Carnation Revolution.

A new study published this week in Nature Neuroscience, by INDP student David Raposo, reveals that behavioral multitasking is reflected in the activity of a specific area in the brain.

Classically, it is thought that single neurons encode single functions. This is particularly true in primary sensory areas where sensory inputs, such as tone or colour, are represented by specific categories of neurons. But what happens with higher brain functions, like decision-making, which require integration of different types of information?

Last Friday, CNP welcomed 65 participants from 11 different countries to the Workshop Improving Zebrafish Husbandry towards better research and animal welfare.

This workshop was organised by the Fish Platform and aimed at promoting the scientific and technical discussion on the development of advanced husbandry procedures and concepts in zebrafish, an emergent and exponentially-growing animal model in biomedical research. The audience was mainly comprised by researchers, facility managers and technicians.