Abstracts

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Applied clinical neuroscience

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- How a drug can make your brain forget the words? A language functional MRI study with topiramate in epilepsy and headache.
- Correlation between the polymorphism thr92ala of the deiodidase type 2 enzyme and adaptive behavior in Down syndrome.
- Evaluation of processing cognitive (P300) of elderly enrolled in Family Health Units.
- Orthostatic tremor: a case report.
- Random forest as a gene selection method for a molecular signature of epilepsy.
- Contralateral hippocampal atrophy after temporal lobe surgery: volumetric analysis of immediate and long-term postoperative MRI.
- Altered connectivity of language-related areas in high-functioning autismo.
- Evidence of age-related modulation of partial directed coherence in areas exhibiting cortical thinning.
- Effects of Aerobic Exercise on progression of Hippocampal Volume and cognition in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment due to AD.
- Relationship between Grip Strength and Dexterity in individuals with Parkinson's disease.
- A study in wearable technology with pressure transduction for uses in neurologic rehabilitation treatment for hand sensory loss.
- Can different distribution of normal variation impact molecular testing in the clinical context? A study in the Brazilian population.
- Abnormal Inter-Intranetwork Connectivity in patients with Generalized Epilepsies.
- Cortical surface analysis in patients with Generalized Epilepsies.
- Operational and strategic mental models reveal different brain activation.
- Valproate acid influence in the cortical surface of epilepsy’s patients brain structures.
- Investigating a polygenic effect in genomic data of patients with childhood epileptic encephalopathies.
- Impaired Salience Network in Schizophrenia: an Arterial Spin Labeling study.
- Postoperative dynamic changes on contralateral hippocampus: manual volumetry and relaxometry analyses.
- Functional connectivity of Default Mode Network in ischemic stroke: a prospective study.
- Comparison of 2D and 3D co-occurrence matrices for evaluation of texture parameters from brain MR images of systemic lupus erythematosus patients.
- The impact of hippocampal atrophy on brain atrophy: side matters.
- Topography of brain atrophy in Huntington’s disease: a voxel-based morphometry study.
- Botulinum toxin for hereditary spastic paraplegia: effects on motor and non-motor manifestations.
- A feasibility evaluation of EEG data acquired using a Neurofeedback training interface: preliminary results.
- Does only side matter? Seizure control and hippocampal sclerosis related to metabolic alterations in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Tract Integrity Alterations Throughout Life Span.
- Postural effects elicited by muscle vibration facilitates gait initiation in people with Parkinson’s disease and Freezing of Gait.
- Elderly caregivers with chronic pain: better or worse cognitive performance?
- A Voxel Based Morphometry Study of treatment-resistant patients with Generalized Epilepsies.
- The relationship between blood serum BDNF and seizure frequency in TLE-HS patients.
- A comprehensive analysis of missense mutations in SCN1A in patients with Dravet syndrome improves interpretation of clinically relevant variants.
- Aerobic Physical Exercise Program Can Improve Quality of Life in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
- Symbol Digit Modalities Test and Effective Connectivity of Information Processing Speed.
- Cortical Surface Analysis in Parkinson Disease Patients.
- TBSS Longitudinal Analysis in Parkinson's Disease.
- Uncertainty in target location affects the arm reaching movements during standing in stroke individuals.
- Distinct functional and structural network abnormalities in patients with focal epilepsies.
- Python-based virtual keyboard descriptive language interpreter.
- Monitoring Neurocritical Patients With Diffuse Optical Techniques.
- White matter tracts integrity in children with focal cortical dysplasia.
- Graph theory applied to a longitudinal study of patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.
- CORRELATION BETWEEN THE PRESENCE OF THE POLYMORPHISM Ala D2 OF THE ENZYME DESIODASE TYPE 2 (DIO2) AND THE FUNCTIONALITY OF INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER.

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Experimental basic neuroscience

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- Transcriptome profile of hippocampus CA3 in the pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Investigation of the influence of subjects’ training in the performance of an MI-based BCI using different feature sets.
- Identification of putative pathogenic CNVs in a large cohort of patients with intracerebral hemorrhage.
- Proteomic profile from dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus from the classic pilocarpine model of MTLE.
- Proteomic analysis of the subiculum region of the hippocampus in animals with temporal lobe epilepsy induced by pilocarpine.
- Lepidium meyenii Walp (Maca) increases the anti-inflammatory cytokines levels and improve memory in elderly rats.
- Thyroid hormone signaling in mouse brain following Pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus.
- Segmentation of cortical cytoarchitectonics from in whole brain thick Nissl sections.
- Frequency of Microrearrangements on Patients with Epileptic Encephalopathies and Related Phenotypes.
- Epigenetic changes in the hippocampus of an epilepsy model.
- ZIKV infection induces synthesis of cardiac glycosides at glioblastoma cells.
- Possible correlations between thyroid hormone and depressive and anxious behavior in obese rats.
- Prediction of Temporal Decision Based on Electrophysiological Activity of rats Pre-frontal Cortex.
- Improving attention through network-based neurofeedback training.
- Aging effects on functional brain connectivity by Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
- Effect of orthographic neighborhood density in reading.
- Associations between environmental factors and default mode network development during childhood.
- NEUROPROTECTIVE EFFECT OF Lepidium meyenii Walp. IN RATS WITH CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA.
- Electrophysiological characterization of the mesolimbic circuit in wild mice.
- Deterministic and Stochastic Wrappers for Motor Imagery BCIs.
- Decreased β-galactosidase activity in the zebrafish model for GM1 gangliosidosis.
- Identification of the genetic basis related to familial mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Searching for blood biomarkers to improve the diagnosis and the management of patients with epilepsy.
- The role of mir-221 and hsp90ab1 gene in seizures in the zebrafish immature brain.
- Linear discriminant analysis as a potential tool to identify variants of significance for complex disorders.
- Symbolic Entropy for Connectivity Analysis of in vitro Hippocampus Epileptiform Activities.
- 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the rat model of temporal lobe epilepsy induced by perforant pathway stimulation.
- Lepidium meyenii Walp induce neuroprotection in animal model of Cerebral ischemia with reperfusion.
- Motor adaptation through the predictive saccades: fMRI study of the eye movemets.
- Default Mode Network in TLE patients with and without hippocampal atrophy.
- Determining the burden of copy number variation in patients with epilepsy.
- Identification of the distribution of HLA alleles in the Brazilian population and in neurological phenotypes possibly associated with autoimmunity.
- The function of β2 adrenergic receptor in memory.
- Study of the Cortical Connectivity in Altered States of Consciousness: MEDITATION.
- MCP-1 is related with functional connectivity and phospho-tau protein in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment.
- Somatic mutations are abundant in focal cortical dysplasia.
- Motion Artifacts and Slice Timing Correction Can Influence BOLD Resting State Results.

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Neurotechnology

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- e-Street: Virtual Reality for spatial orientation in urban environment.
- Power spectral density or functional connectivity indices? A comparative study regarding feature selection for motor imagery-based brain-computer interfaces.
- Hybrid Human-Machine Interface for Prosthetic Hands Based on Electromyograph and Motion.
- Open source web-based tool for selection of the spectra of interest on multi-voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
- Novel Interaction Techniques for Neurosurgical Planning.
- Comparison of Influence of Acquisition Parameters in DTI Indices for 8-Channel and 32-Channel Head Coils: A Fiber Phantom Study.
- Application and Characterization of Neural Probes.
- Strategies of real-time ripple detection for closed-loop manipulation of memory-relevant neural systems.
- Comparison between three different methods of co-registration for an open source neuronavigation system.
- Development of game-like interfaces for neurofeedback training.
- Multi-objective transfer learning for epileptic seizure detection.
- Corpus Callosum Fractional Anisotropy Values with Significant Statistical Differences due to Distinct DTI-Based Parcellation Methods.
- IMU Head Tracking with Fixed Pan-tilt Laser for Wheelchair Navigation.
- Computation of Brain Midsagittal Plane through DTI-Based Divergence Map.
- Controlling a Game using a BCI-SSVEP with Four Commands.
- The Brazilian Initiative on Precision Medicine (BIPMed): impact after one year.
- Upgrading of a Clinical Gamma-Camera for High Resolution Brain Perfusion SPECT Imaging of Rats and Mice.
- Improved SISCOM for more accurate location of seizure-onset zone.
- Common Carotid Lumen Segmentation using Cine Fast Spin Echo Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
- A 2D CNN Approach for Skull-Stripping in MR Imaging.
- Variants of EEG Functional Brain Connectivity Evaluation Methods for BCI Motor Imagery Classification.
- Performance of the elderly on the execution of virtual reality activities and cognitive evaluation after a prevention program of multi-components falls.
- Hierarchical observation modeling in fMRI: sliding window 2.0.
- Multimodal Visualization of DTI Glyphs for Diffusivity Tensor Assessment.
- Method for motor cortex mapping using navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation.
- Wireless Deep Brain Stimulation Device with Integrated Antennae.
- SU8 Neural Probes are optimized for single unit recordings in optogenetic experiments.
- A BCI model based in ERP to make correct decisions on risk situations.
- Biclustering in the analysis and identification of biomarkers.
- Origins and Properties of the Human Brain at Rest: a Comparative NIRS and fMRI Study.
- Human-Computer Interface using Facial Expressions: a Solution for People with Motor Disabilities.
- Development of a P300-based BCI: preliminary results.
- Multielectrode Arrays for cell potential measurements: Testing novel insulating layer between electrodes and culture.
- GA4GHclient: accessing federated genomic databases through GA4GH.
- A method for extraction of Corpus Callosum’s Shape Signature.
- Comparison of two tractography approaches in healthy adults.

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Neuroeducation

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- Computer aided design for transposing a 2D brain model into a 3D educational object.
- Video and Knowledge Structure for an Audiovisual System based on Animations to support learning about Epilepsy.
- Social identity and the representation of epilepsy in cinema.
- SPIX – A Tool For Electrophysiology Lab Practices.

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Late-breaking projects session
 

- Human Hand Prosthetic Interaction Based on Electromyography and Image Recognition.
- Virtual reality as an add on rehabilitation therapy in patients after ischemic stroke.
- Perceptions of stigma during disclosure among patients with epilepsy in different life scenarios.
- Investigating the genetic landscape of childhood epileptic encephalopathies in Latin America.
- A model for diagnostic decision support in mental health through the analysis of variables of different kinds.
- Study of the technique of magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) and application to evaluation of brain metabolites of systemic lupus erythematosus patients.
- Hippocampal Volume and Functional Connectivity Predicts Functional Decline in Mild AD and Amci.
- FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF SCN1A MUTATIONS.
- Effects of sub-convulsive doses of pentylenetetrazole during zebrafish brain development.

 

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