Based at the Champalimaud Foundation’s Neuropsychiatry Unit and the newly established Digital Neurotherapeutics Centre, Cotovio is recognised for research that advances a more mechanistic understanding of psychiatric disorders. As part of this distinction, he is featured in the Innovators & Ideas series in Brain Medicine, which highlights emerging leaders in translational neuroscience.
 

Towards causal models in psychiatry

Host

Carlos Minutti, PhD, Immunoregulation Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

Researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, have for the first time managed to identify, with an imaging technique, whether nervous impulses in the brain of rats are flowing in a “bottom-up” (feedforward), carrying information about visual input, or a “top-down” (feedback) direction, carrying information about expectations or predictions on a given task or about the perception of the world around us.

The Teaching Lab is much more than a classroom. It’s where students, from their first experiments to their PhDs, develop the confidence to ask questions and test ideas.

Used daily by researchers and students alike, this space is a hub for building and refining scientific setups, and a venue for workshops and courses that welcome new minds every year.

It has reshaped how science is done at the Champalimaud Foundation. By empowering students, it strengthens entire research teams.

Driven by a fascination for science, behaviour and biology –  and shaped by his social environment – Marcelo Mendonça’s path to medicine stems from curiosity and was galvanized by a single, transformative clinical moment. 

The symposium will bring together national and international experts to explore the dynamic evolution of the field, with a special focus on the close collaboration between radiology and surgery.

Diagnostic and interventional radiology are currently undergoing remarkable transformation. New imaging methodologies are redefining precision and diagnostic capability, achieving unprecedented levels of accuracy and clinical impact. Innovations such as photon-counting CT technology and ultra-fast MRI protocols are rapidly expanding the horizons of medical imaging.

Host

Rita Fior, PhD, Cancer development and innate immune evasion Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

Host

Il Memming Park, PhD, Neural Dynamics Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

Albino J. Oliveira-Maia is the Director of the Neuropsychiatry Unit at the Champalimaud Foundation and Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at NOVA Medical School in Lisbon. He is also President-Elect of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health, President of the Scientific Council for the Portuguese OCD Foundation and President of the Ethics Committee at the Institute for Addictive Behaviours and Addictions.