The Interdisciplinary Unit for Applied Neuroscience (NINA) was founded in 2016. As well as its predecessor (the Cognition and Complex Systems Unit – NCSC), NINA is a strategic unit of Federal University of ABC (UFABC). The central aim of NCSC is to generate and propagate the scientific knowledge in the Neuroscience, Cognitive Science and Complex Systems fields, which are natural interdisciplinary science arenas. Biology, cellular and molecular biology, physiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, biophysics, computational and mathematics modeling, physics can all be integrated to understand the brain. The researchers associated to NCSC come from different areas of the science. In accordance with the main innovation of UFABC – excellence in interdisciplinary research and teaching – the NCSC adopted the strategy of encouraging academic activities involving undergraduate and graduate students, scientific research and community initiatives.
Infrastructure NCSC thematic laboratories include:
– Animal facility
– Computational Neuroscience Laboratory
– Electrophysiology Laboratory
– Histology facility
– Neurochemical Laboratory
– Neurogenetic and Molecular biology Laboratory
– Optogenetic Laboratory
– Psychophysics and Neuropsychology Laboratory
Research Fields:
– Computational Neurocience
– Molecular basis and neural of Alzheimer disease Neurological and psychiatric motor disorders
– Music Cognition
– Neural basis of learning and emotional memory
– Neural basis of sleep and memory
– Neural networks
– Neural substrates of mental disorders
– Neurodegeneration and Neuroprotection
– Neuropharmacology of maternal and sexual behavior
– Neuro-psycholinguistics
– Neuro-psychopharmacology of medicinal plants
– Neuropsychopharmacology of schizophrenia
– Sensory processing of olfactory system
– Thermal Neurophysiology
– Time perception
– Visual perception
– Voice and audio signal processing