On October 2, at 2 pm, the Instituto do Cebra do RS receives international researchers from the University of Texas who work with the researcher and Professor at the PUCRS School of Medicine, Rodrigo Grassi. They must know the Pre-Clinical Research Center and the Radiopharmaceutical Production Center.

Soon after, at 4 pm, the director of the National Drug Abuse Institute, NIDA, makes a live video conference in the ground floor auditorium of building 50 (Av. Ipiranga, 6.681 - Porto Alegre), about Addiction as a brain disorder , in English, without translation. Free registration at the event website . The neuroscientist and psychiatrist born in Mexico and naturalized in the United States is a pioneer in the use of tomography to investigate the effect of drugs. His studies documented changes in the dopamine system, affecting, among others, the functions of the frontal regions of the brain involved in motivation and pleasure. He also made contributions to the neurobiology of obesity, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and aging.

The intermediation with Nora Volkow happens through the professor Rodrigo Grassi de Oliveira , from Escola de Medicina and Instituto do Cebra of Rio Grande do Sul . Over the past 30 years, Nora Volkow has published more than 770 peer-reviewed articles, in addition to 95 book chapters, edited four books on brain imaging and drug addiction, and co-edited an encyclopedia on Neuroscience. She received several awards, including participation in the National Academy of Medicine in 2000 and the International Science Award from the French Institute of Health and Medical Research in 2009. She was named one of the “Top 100 People who shape our world”, Time magazine in 2007.