by Claudia Domingues Vargas and Fabio Kon*
Computer scientists have engaged in ever-evolving, innovative strategies to create operational neuromathematical softwares. The development team of the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat) has progressively become a central player in the overall scientific project of combining mathematical and neuroscientific research agendas. NeuroMat was established in 2013 at the University of São Paulo (USP) is an interdisciplinary state-of-the-art institute that aims at building a renewed theoretical of neural functioning and that is coordinated by Prof. Antonio Galves, with funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
The Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat) has contributed to spreading public interest and media coverage on issues pertaining to a renewed theoretical understanding of the brain. This contribution remains part of NeuroMat's dissemination strategy, which aims at bridging the gap between scientific production and public awareness. NeuroMat is coordinated by Prof. Antonio Galves and was established in 2013 at the University of São Paulo (USP), with funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
A NeuroMat interdisciplinary group is currently developing new statistical tools toward a new understanding of assessment of stroke rehabilitation, which could eventually lead to more efficient clinical tools to describe and analyze the evolution of patients. Prof. Linamara Rizzo Battistella and Dr. Marcel Simis, from the University of São Paulo's School of Medicine (FM/USP), and Prof. Verónica Andrea González-López and Prof. Jesús Enrique García, from the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics, and Scientific Computation at the University of Campinas (IME/UNICAMP), lead this research group, whose official agenda remains: “The interrelationship of clinical variables collected from stroke patients in rehabilitation.” NeuroMat is the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics, that is coordinated by Prof. Antonio Galves and that was established in 2013 at USP, with funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
Mathematicians from the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat) are currently working on a new class of mathematical models that could eventually lead to a general theory of the brain, a theory that could be able to explain how the neural system, consisting of billions of neurons and other cells, interacts with an ever-changing environment and generates behaviors. NeuroMat is a state-of-the-art institute, that is coordinated by Prof. Antonio Galves and that was established in 2013 at the University of São Paulo (USP), with funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Twenty senior mathematicians from universities in seven countries are currently involved in this research project.
