Newsletter #54

Mathematics of the brain: a NeuroMat op-ed

What does Mathematics have to do with Brain Biology? This is the question that NeuroMat's director, Antonio Galves, asks on his first post as a contributor to the "Science & Mathematics" blog of the Brazilian newspaper O Globo. This post, originally in Portuguese, is brought here in English.

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Last NeuroMat scientific publications

• Fraiman, D., Miranda, M. F., Erthal, F., Buur, P. F., Elschot, M., Souza, L., ... Galves, A., Vargas, C. D. (2016). Reduced functional connectivity within the primary motor cortex of patients with brachial plexus injury. Neuroimage: clinical, 12, 277-284.

• França, A. S. C., Lobão-Soares, B., Muratori, L., Nascimento, G., Winne, J., Pereira, C. M., ... & Ribeiro, S. (2015). D2 dopamine receptor regulation of learning, sleep and plasticity. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 25(4), 493-504.

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NeuroMat in the media

• Ciência em tirinhas. Pesquisa FAPESP. 7/2018.

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On NeuroMat

NeuroMat is a research center established in 2013 at the University of São Paulo that is dedicated to integrating mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience. Among the core missions of NeuroMat are the creation of a new mathematical system to understanding neural data and the development of neuroscientific open-source computational tools. The research center is headed by Prof. Antonio Galves, from USP's Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and is funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). To receive monthly updates on NeuroMat's work or pertaining news, please subscribe to NeuroMat's newsletter.

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Previous issues of the NeuroMat Newsletter (features)

Newsletter #53

• The Goalkeeper Game, a tool for massive data collection and experiments

Newsletter #52

• NeuroMat, the largest institutional contributor on Mathematics on Wikipedia

Newsletter #51

• Ten research directions for the NeuroMat team in the coming years