Can forgetting take on a physical form?

Inbal Israely, a principal investigator at the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme shows, in a study just published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE, what are the mechanisms that mediate the shrinkage and disappearance of neuronal spines.

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After a month and a half of featuring online, the videos of Invest in Our Future – Invest in Science recieved hundreds of votes, dozens of Shares and lots of comments. Here are a couple of highlights:

The Champalimaud Foundation is one of the highlights of the summer issue of EMBO encounters, a magazine from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

“Life sciences in Portugal: progress despite recession” is the title of a text, published in issue 24 of EMBO encounter, dedicated to the Portuguese research private sector, where it is recognized “the potential (of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown) to become a world-class research institute”.

Larry Young, a social neuroscience professor and investigator, was invited by Susana Lima’s Lab to talk about his latest research and book “The chemistry between us: love, sex and the science of attraction” in a CNP Colloquium and at a public SeminAr event.

Larry Young’s SeminAr “The Chemistry between us” was the inspiration for this piece just published in Visão magazine. Read the full article here (in PT).

Eugenia Chiappe, explains to Nova Gente magazine the advantages of using the fly to understand how the brain reacts to external stimuli

Read the full article here (PT)

The Third Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium started yesterday (Sep 25th) evening with a welcome reception to all participants. Hundreds of scientists from across the world gathered for this unique opportunity to hear talks from leading scientists and share their work with their colleagues in the exceptional setting of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown.

The Portuguese and international participants of the third Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium have enjoyed excellent talks, posters, discussions and social events. The general atmosphere of the meeting was intimate and relaxed with invited speakers and participants speaking informally during the entire meeting.

Was the research of Richard Axel the inspiration for Woody Allen’s movie “Sleeper”?

Why do we associate particular smells to strong emotions?

Are oenophiles “smell geniuses”?

Nobel Laureate, Richard Axel, the keynote speaker of this year’s Champalimaud Neuroscience Symposium, answered these and other questions in his interview with Sábado magazine.

New discovery, from Carolina Doran, INDP 2010 student, shows for the first time that ants are just as eager as humans to find a great place to live.

We’ve all been there. The apartment is a bit too small; the heating doesn’t work so well, but is it time to make a move?

As hundreds of teachers streamed into Pavilhão do Conhecimento last Friday night (October 18th) for Teacher’s Night, a group of volunteers from the CNP stood prepared. Armed with four cockroach legs, a spike box, auditory and optical illusions, an electromyogram (EMG), 8 pairs of toothpicks and one enormous play-dough neuron.