Abstracts

3rd BRAINN Congress

Applied clinical neuroscience

- DTI analysis of temporal stem after anterior lobectomy.
- Intranetwork and internetwork connectivities in Alzheimer’s disease and the relationship with CSF biomarker levels.
- Two different mental models reveal distinct interactions between functional networks.
- Generalized Epilepsies And Persistent Seizures: Clinical And Neuroimaging Features.
- Gray Matter Atrophy in Patients with Epileptic Encephalopathy of Unknown Cause.
- “Mandalas of Emotions facilitate perception of feelings”.
- Worse cognitive performance is associated to Default Mode Network abnormalities in ischemic stroke.
- Diffusion tensor imaging of corticospinal tract, cingulum and corpus callosum in Parkinson's Disease (PD) Patients.
- Entorhinal and cingulate cortical thickness predicts episodic memory and global cognition in mild Alzheimer's disease.
- Thalamic volumes in different age groups.
- Metabolic alterations and inflammatory cytokines in mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with or without hippocampal atrophy: a preliminary study.
- Effect of previous treatment with antiplatelet severity of ischemic stroke subtypes.
- Brain morphometric alterations during the progression of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease.
- Circulating microRNAs in mesial temporal lobo epilepsy: hsa-miR-134 identified as a biomarker of MTLE.
- Incidental findings of genomic testing: investigating the view of health professionals and the research community.
- Cortical thickness changes and psychiatric symptoms in MTLE patients.
- Association between depression, quality of life and physical activity in people with temporal lobe epilepsy.
- White matter abnormalities in temporal lobe patients with good and poor seizure control.
- Evaluation of cerebellar gray matter damage in Huntington's disease: a voxel based morphometry study.
- Volumetric analysis of hippocampal subfields in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: evidence of bilateral disease in patients with left hippocampal sclerosis.
- Dystonia in Machado-Joseph Disease: Clinical Profile, Therapy and Anatomical Basis.
- Adaptation of the ALS-CBS Cognitive Section for Brazilian Population.
- How fragile is our left hemispheres? VBM analyses comparing epilepsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.
- Sensory loss may yield gray matter abnormalities in Sensory Neuropathy patients.

Experimental basic neuroscience

- Integrated analyses of zebrafish miRNA and mRNA expression profiles after pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures.
- COX-1 expression is up-regulated after seizure in the zebrafish seizure model.
- Using genetic information to predicting response to treatment in patients with epilepsy.
- Copy Number Variations Analysis in Brazilian and Italian Patients with Hemorrhagic Stroke.
- Advanced proteomic study of the dentate gyrus in an epilepsy model presenting hippocampal sclerosis.
- Building a public and reproducible workflow for whole exome sequencing data processing.
- White matter microstructure in idiopathic craniocervical dystonia.
- Association study of microRNA-binding site polymorphism of NEUROG2 gene with focal cortical dysplasia (FCD).
- Searching for somatic mutations in focal cortical dysplasia by using next generations sequencing.
- Epigenetic factors playing a role in a model of temporal lobe epilepsy: what’s going on in dentate gyrus?
- FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SODIUM CHANNEL MUTATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH EPILEPSY.
- SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION IS LINKED TO DEFAULT MODE NETWORK FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY IN ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA AND AMNESTIC MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT.
- Investigating a stop-gain variant associate with cell differentiation and synaptic machinery in focal cortical dysplasia (FCD).
- bdnf and karln transcripts profile in immature zebrafish brain after seizure-induced larva.
- Analysis of copy number variation in patients with Epileptic Encephalopathies and Generalized Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus.
- Functional Brain Networks in Resting State Using Arterial Spin Labeling Technique.
- Cerebral blood flow and vasoreactivity in healthy aging: an ASL study.
- Epilepsy: behind the white matter involvement.
- Hippocampal atrophy severely disrupts recruitment of Default Mode Network in TLE.
- Comparing resting state connectivity patterns between NIRS and fMRI.
- NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING SUCCESSFULLY IDENTIFIES MUTATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH CHILDHOOD EPILEPTIC ENCEPHALOPATHIES.
- Transcriptome profile of dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus of the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Resting-state networks and brain connectivity in elderly patients with asymptomatic unilateral internal carotid artery stenosis.
- Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies Rare Coding Variants in Patients with Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD).
- Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Prediction analysis of rs2107595 and rs2383207 polymorphisms in Large Artery Atherosclerosis Stroke patients.
- Employing proteomics to unravel the molecular effects of antipsychotics on oligodendrocytes and their relation with schizophrenia.
- Two-Class Motor Imagery BCI Based on the Combined Use of ICA and Feature Selection: Preliminary Results.
- In situ postmortem human brain diffusion tensor images obtained in less than 24h after death: White matter hyperintensities analysis from postmortem in cranium whole brain tissue images.
- The effect of auditory landmarks availability for human performance in goal-oriented behavior.
- Application of pattern recognition techniques for quantitative data from neuroimaging MRI in Multiple Sclerosis patients.

Neurotechnology

- Analysis of feature extraction techniques of brain signals for the development of SSVEP BCI systems.
- Validation of the use of three-dimensional printing and neuronavigation for surgical planning.
- Development and characterization of InVesalius Navigator with an optical spatial tracker.
- Whole-genome bisulfite sequencing data analysis reveals differentially methylated regions on a dataset of epilepsy in animal models.
- Construction of a bedside monitor with a hybrid optical system.
- BRAZILIAN INITIATIVE ON PRECISION MEDICINE (BIPMED): THE FIRST PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE GENOMIC DATABASE IN LATIN AMERICA.
- A complex system’s approach to study Hemodynamics with Optical Techniques.
- MRI scanner attribution from its pattern noise.
- Texture analysis of normal appearing white matter in atherosclerosis patients.
- Obtaining functional dynamic brain networks with contiguous co-clustering.
- Graphs metrics as features for an LDA based classifier for motor imagery data.
- Developing Bioinformatics Tools to Use in High Performance Computing.
- Corpus Callosum Segmentation on DWI through voxel-based Classification.
- The Use of Dyneema Fiber Phantom for DTI Quality Control: Influence of Imaging Acquisition Parameters on DTI Indexes.
- Communication Orchestration with a Cognitive Architecture.
- Establishing a cost-effective method to record electrographic activity in larval zebrafish brain.
- AIC-Toolbox: Automated Individual Classifier through probabilistic grey matter abnormalities.
- SSVEP-Based BCIs: the Brain as a Digital Communication Channel.
- Spectral vs. Canonical Correlation Analysis for Feature Extraction in BCI-SSVEP Systems.
- Embedded system for real time determination of brain connectivity.
- Topiramate disrupts Graph theory properties in migraine patients and TLE.
- Method for Optimizing Quantitative Temporal Lobe Epilepsy MR Imaging.
- Curvilinear Reformatting for Focal Cortical Dysplasia Diagnosis.
- Multimodal Visualization of Diffusion Tensor Imaging.
- Human Computer Control by gestural interaction: application to neuroscience.
- Augmented Reality for Motor Stimulation: A Pilot Study.
- A study on how interactive musical technology could be applied in educational and therapeutic purposes.
- Automatic Generation of International 10-20 System for Electrode Placement.

Neuroeducation

- The Content and Interactivity of a Webdocumentary about Epilepsy.
- Neuronal oscillations revealed: A didactic proposal for a FitzHugh-Nagumo analog neuronal circuit.
- Requiem film: a historical portrait of epilepsy.
- Stories and images on epilepsy.
- ABCérebro TV presents Brainn Repórter.