From this Monday (4), Porto Alegre has another ally in the fight against cancer: the new oncology center of the São Lucas Hospital of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (HSL - PUCRS ). As a result of the union of forces between HSL and Oncoclínicas, the partnership aims to...
05 de Novembro de 2019On Nov 13 – 14, Brainhack Global took place in various parts of the world. It is an event that aims to bring together researchers to work together on innovative projects related to neuroscience. In Porto Alegre, the event was brought to you by the Brain Institute of RS and the Experimental...
04 de Novembro de 2019The Institute of the Brain of RS has a new possibility of attending in a particular way: the Multidisciplinary Assessment of Children and Adolescents. A multidisciplinary team from the Institute will evaluate children and adolescents for suspected neurodevelopmental disorders and learning, such...
30 de Outubro de 2019RESEARCH LABORATORIES InsCer's Pre-Clinical Research Center The Center for Pre-Clinical Research (CPPC) is dedicated to research using in vivo imaging methods such as computed microtomography (microCT), positron emission microtomography (microPET) and optical imaging. With a focus on...
30 de Outubro de 2019Cristina Matushita, coordinator of Nuclear Medicine at the Instituto do Cerebro do RS, was present between 22 and 26 October, in Rio de Janeiro, during the second Brazilian Oncology Week. Matushita acted in the educational session: update on nuclear medicine, and gave the lecture “The current...
28 de Outubro de 2019An article has just been published with neurologist Lucas Schilling, a researcher at the Cerebro Institute of Rio Grande do Sul, on the UOL-Viva Bem! The article addresses memory and brings five tips to make it sharper. The researcher explains that the decline in memory starts to be noticeable from...
25 de Outubro de 2019Brain Institute researcher, Dr Augusto Buchweitz, made his presence felt at the National Conference of Evidence-Based Literacy (Conabe). This year’s theme is “The National Literacy Policy and the state-of-the-art of research on literacy, schooling and numeracy”. The researcher...
23 de Outubro de 2019A group of researchers from the Brain Institute of RS went to Barcelona, Spain, to participate in the European Congress of Nuclear Medicine. Ana Maria Marques da Silva, researcher and faculty at the School of Technology of PUCRS, presented three papers with her students. The first paper identified...
15 de Outubro de 2019A new study by the Instituto do Cebra do RS aims to investigate the quality of sleep, stress, fatigue and executive functioning in federal highway policemen to foster public policies that minimize the impacts of police activity. A meeting was held at InsCer for the analysis of statistical results...
14 de Outubro de 2019This week, Dr. Rodrigo Grassi, opened the doors of the Brain Institute to Brown University psychiatrist Audrey Tyrka. She taught courses at PUCRS’ School of Medicine and School of Health and Life Sciences. She also shared her research findings with students as she had the chance to learn more...
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