Redefining brain and mental health care through neurotechnologies – from Alzheimer’s to stroke, from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to depression –, is the declared goal of the new Digital Neurotherapeutics Centre (DNTx), which opened its doors to the public at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF) on May 18th.

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The Open Labs are where scientific research comes to life at the Champalimaud Foundation.

Filled every day with scientists discussing ideas, testing setups, analysing data and challenging assumptions, these spaces thrive on curiosity, collaboration and discovery.

Here, questions are encouraged. Experiments are tested, sometimes fail, and are then rethought, refined and repeated, transforming uncertainty into knowledge.

The Vision Award Office is where ideas are shaped into global recognition.

It is here that the António Champalimaud Vision Award takes form, through careful preparation, collaboration and informed decision-making.

It is also home to the Ethics Committee, where research projects, in particular clinical studies, are supported and rigorously reviewed.

Here, decisions are not rushed. They are considered, debated and refined.

Because creating impact, and recognising it, requires the freedom to think deeply, to question, and to choose with responsibility.

Under the central theme of efficiency as a condition for a more sustainable, equitable and future-ready healthcare system, the event established itself as a forum for discussing concrete solutions, with proposals for more efficient use of public investment, improved incentives for professionals and patient-centred policies.

Offer Description

Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud), a private, non-profit research institution in Lisbon, Portugal, is looking for a Operations Unit Officer fellow to join our team. 

Champalimaud Research (CR) has an open position for an Operations Unit Officer, to work in a professional, dynamic and diverse work environment at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown.

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.