Eleven academics linked to the PUCRS Brain Institute won the Young Researcher Award promoted by the Brain 2019 Congress . The event brought together neuroscience professionals and researchers in Brasília, in June, to share knowledge and discuss advances in the area. This year's theme, Behavior and Emotion , brought the link between neurochemistry and human behavior to the center of the discussions. In addition to lectures by national and international guests, the Congress presented works developed by students and rewarded the best productions, including those of students from the de Medicina and Health Sciences from PUCRS, with participation grants for the 2020 edition.

Know the works and authors contemplated:

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

• Symptoms of depression and anxiety in patients with refractory epilepsy according to the epileptogenic focus.
  Eduardo Leal Conceição, PhD student in Medical Sciences at UFRGS and member of research on Superidosos at InsCer

• Preparation of structural and functional model of hippocampus in 3D printed biomaterial
  Felipe Rodrigues, PhD student in Pediatrics and Child Health at PUCRS and research member at InsCer

• Assessment of the period of infection and functional changes in children exposed to the Zika virus during pregnancy
  Fernanda Bruzzo, medical student and research member at InsCer

• Expression of genes related to the WNT pathway in dysplastic tissue of patients with focal cortical dysplasia
  Fernanda Majolo, PhD in Medicine and Health Sciences from PUCRS and member of the Neuroscience Laboratory and Cell Therapy Center at InsCer

• Transplantation of bone marrow mononuclear cells modulates brain glucose metabolism and the metabolic network and reduces depressive behavior in chronic epilepsy
  Gabriele Zanirati, PhD in Medicine and Health Sciences from PUCRS and member of the Neuroscience Laboratory and Cell Therapy Center at InsCer

• The antidepressant effect of bone marrow mononuclear cell transplantation in chronic stress
  Guilherme Onsten, medical student and research member at InsCer

• Bone marrow mononuclear cells reduce the frequency of seizures, sprouting of mossy fibers and improve cognitive function in a model of chronic epilepsy
  Isadora Ghilardi, Master's student in Pediatrics and Child Health at PUCRS and member of the Neuroscience Laboratory and Cell Therapy Center at InsCer

• Differences and consequences of social cognition in crack users: behavioral and neurofunctional evidence related to withdrawal symptoms
  Lucco Pizzato Tondo, medical student and research member at InsCer

• Hearing task in children with congenital microcephaly associated with Zika virus: a study with functional near-infrared spectroscopy
  Nathalia Esper, doctoral student in Medicine and Health Sciences at PUCRS and research member at InsCer

• Dissociation between cerebral glucose metabolism and cognitive impairments in the neonatal hypoxia-ischemia model
  Pamella Azevedo, PhD in Medicine and Health Sciences from PUCRS and research member at InsCer

SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES

• Quality of sleep as an important factor in the performance of inhibitory control and phonological verbal fluency in the elderly
  Jaíne da Rosa Santos, student of the Psychology course and research member at InsCer