Program Booklet 2023
Venue: ICe Auditorium
December 7th
08:00
Welcome/Registration
09:00
Opening words
Organizing Committee
09:15
Brain Institute’s Chair Address
Kerstin Schmidt/Maria Bernardete
09:30
Lecture 1
Vision and Illusion at the crossroads- perceptual grouping mediated by callosal connections
Kerstin Schmidt
10:00
Lecture 2
“Don’t panic, just breathe: exploring respiration-coupled brain oscillations during anxiety”
Ana Luiza Alves Dias (Tort Lab)
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Students flash talks 1
11:30
Lecture 3
“Auditory event-related potentials in tinnitus and models of psychosis”
Katarina Leão
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00
Micro-courses 1: EEG in humans.
Dráulio Araújo (Professsor, Brain Institute) and Daniel Brandão (Bioinformatician and IT Analyst, Brain Institute)
Micro-courses 2: Local field potential analysis with open source tools.
Rodrigo Santiago (Ph.D., Computational Neurophysiology of Brain Institute) and Lucas Caiã (Ph.D. Student, Computational Neurophysiology of Brain Institute)
15:30 – 16:00
Posters/Coffee Break
16:00
Lecture 4
“Postnatal mice zika virus infection as a model for the infection during the human third trimester“
Jhulimar Doerl (Sequerra Lab)
16:30
Lecture 5
“Skin conductance changes after participation in a Capoeira initiation program based on a global approach to teach motor skills”
Patrick Coquerel (Ribeiro Lab)
17:00
Cultural activity
December 8th
09:00
Keynote Lecture 1
On the network responsible for paradoxical (REM) sleep generation
Pierre-Hervé Luppi, PhD
10:00
Students flash talks 2
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break/Posters
11:00
Lecture 6
“Visual entrainment in the LGN reveals perceptual binding”
Lucas Lira (Neuenschwander Lab)
11:30
Lecture 7
Emotional contagion in an animal model of autism
Debora Hashiguchi (Pereira Lab)
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00
Panel Discussion – Depression
“Depression: what it is and current psychiatric treatments”
Professor Emerson Arcoverde
“Caveats of modeling depression in animals”
Rafael Lima, PhD
“Depression biomarkers and their modulation by ayahuasca”
Professor Nicole Galvão-Coelho
15:30 -16:00
Coffee Break/Prize Draw
16:00
Keynote lecture 2
“Evolution and physiology of the supramammilary-dentate gyrus projection“
Monique Esclapez, PhD
16:30
Closing
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