The Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) closes this Sunday (17) enrollment for the 15th class of the Master's in Neuroengineering, the only graduate program in Brazil approved in this area of knowledge.
New entrants will have the chance to participate in projects involving topics such as “Control of brain connectivity by stimulation”; “Rehabilitation with the aid of neuromodulation”; “Mechanisms of formation, expression and modification of memories; “Development of a mobile application for screening patients”, among others to which they direct their interest in the selection phase.
In 2020, nine masters in neuroengineering were awarded by ISD. “The psychological attachment profile of mothers of children with microcephaly”, “Development of a mobile health application for monitoring and assessing child neurodevelopment” and “Assessment of bladder and bowel dysfunctions in children with congenital zika virus syndrome” are some of the titles of defended dissertations.
Check out the gallery of abstracts of the defended papers below.
Research and technologies
The graduate program in Neuroengineering lasts two years. During this period, master's students develop research and technologies in areas such as brain-machine interface, neuromodulation, computational neuroscience and signal processing, rehabilitation, brain-brain interface, prostheses and orthoses, biocompatibility, neurodegenerative diseases, microcephaly, psychiatric diseases and cognition, among others.
One of the masters formed by the Institute, José Firmino Neto is the first in his city – Macaíba/RN, the municipality that hosts the ISD – to have the title of neuroengineer. Firmino entered his master's degree in 2018 and defended his dissertation in 2020, aged 26. In the work, entitled “Development of a behavioral task for studies of discrimination of auditory stimuli and decision making in marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)”, he developed a behavioral training protocol for marmosets to discriminate auditory stimuli. He was guided by researcher Mariana Ferreira Araújo, professor at IIN-ELS/ISD until May 2019.
“The neurobiology of marmosets can be compared to characteristics found in humans due to their evolutionary proximity and similarity of the auditory system. The result of this work can generate contributions regarding the evolution of our vocal communication and in different cognitive aspects”, he summarized for the ISD 2020.1 report, which presents the results achieved by the Institute in the first half of the year for monitoring by the Ministry of Education
The master's program began in August 2013 and since then, until October 2020, 114 students have enrolled and 65 have defended their dissertations. They are students from different states, from north to south of Brazil, coming from courses such as biomedical engineering, computer engineering, medicine, biological sciences, electrical engineering, computer science, nursing, biotechnology, civil engineering, control and automation engineering, chemistry, physiotherapy, psychology, biomedicine and speech therapy.
About the selection of the Master in Neuroengineering
Of the 10 vacancies foreseen in the current selection, one is reserved for professors and employees of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and two are destined to graduates of the Multiprofessional Residency in Health Care for People with Disabilities, from ISD.
The announcement (available on the page bit.ly/mestrado-neuroengenharia-isd) provides for the analysis of documents such as letters of intent, letters of recommendation, curriculum lattes and academic transcripts. For those who pass this stage, there will also be the elimination and classification phase of interviews.
To apply, the candidate must electronically submit the application form and the Letter of Intent, in addition to observing the other procedures included in the notice. Registration for the 2021.1 selection process closes this Sunday (17).
The IIN-ELS/ISD master's degree in neuroengineering is offered free of charge, lasts up to two years and is the first in Brazil recommended by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES).
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Text: Kamila Tuenia – Journalism Intern / Ascom – ISD
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Santos Dumont Institute (ISD)
It is a Social Organization linked to the Ministry of Education (MEC) and includes the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neurosciences and the Anita Garibaldi Health Education and Research Center, both in Macaíba. ISD's mission is to promote education for life, forming citizens through integrated teaching, research and extension actions, in addition to contributing to a fairer and more humane transformation of Brazilian social reality.
