17/06/16

Text and Photo: Ariane Mondo – Ascom ISD

The Selection Committee of the Graduate Program (PPG) in Neuroengineering of the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience (IIN-ELS) completed the second phase of the 2016.2 Selection Process for the master's degree course and based on the evaluation criteria set out in the notice, selected the following students:

Camille Reátegui Silva (GO) – PUC GO

Natalia Alves Rocha Batista (BA) – IFPB

Patricia Mayara Moura da Silva (RN) – UFRN

Marcela de Angelis Vigas Pereira (BA) – UNEB

Luan Garcia Costa de Oliveira (RN) – UFRN

Adrielly Karine de Oliveira Melo Ferreira (RN) – UNP/RN

Margarete Vieira Faria (SP) – FIPA

José Nelson Badziak Junior (MT) – UNP/RN

Perceu Pezzota Sobrinho (SP) – IFSP/SRQ

Registration and enrollment

Those selected must register between June 17 and July 31 and will be informed of the procedures by email. Registrations will be made in person during the first week of classes. The IIN-ELS Master's in Neuroengineering course is free and offers activities at its facilities in Macaíba, Rio Grande do Norte. The academic year for this class begins on August 1 and students can count on free transportation between Natal and the Institute's headquarters.

This is the sixth call from IIN-ELS for graduates who are interested in deepening their knowledge in the area of Neuroengineering. The next cycle of applications for the IIN-ELS PPG should be published at the end of the year, with classes scheduled to begin in March 2017. The course is aimed at graduates in the areas of health sciences or engineering.

Neuroengineering is an interdisciplinary research area that brings together neuroscience and engineering methods to study the functioning of the nervous system and develop solutions for limitations and dysfunctions associated with it.

Research Lines of the IIN-ELS PPG

The IIN-ELS Postgraduate Program in Neuroengineering has two lines of research: Brain-Machine Interface (BMI), which is an area whose objective is to establish direct communication between the nervous system and robotic, electronic or computational artifacts through the use of neurophysiological signals and brain micro-stimulation. The development of ICM has great therapeutic and technological potential for a variety of neurological diseases, which dramatically affect motor function, such as paralysis, Parkinson's disease and stroke.
The other line of research is neuromodulation, which consists of implanting devices in the central or peripheral nervous system, which release an agent (chemical, biological or physical) to promote an effect of restoring, modulating, inhibiting or increasing functions of the nervous system. Neuromodulation with electrical stimulation has currently been used to treat motor symptoms of Parkinson's and essential tremor, Tourette's syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, chronic pain, depression, Alzheimer's and cerebral coma, but there are still numerous possibilities for research and technological development.

More information about IIN-ELS: https://institutosantosdumont.org.br/instituto-internacional-neurociencias/