Sofia Duarte
About Sofia Duarte

Neurologist (both adult and child neurologist). Master in neuroscience. She is currently a PhD student at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon.

2 posts published by Sofia Duarte

Epilepsia y metabolismo sináptico

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Los conocimientos que la neurociencia básica y el neurometabolismo están aportando a la epilepsia pediátrica son rápidamente crecientes. Estos avances son especialmente notables en el área específica de los mecanismos de comunicación sináptica. Existe, no obstante, una desconexión entre estos avances y una visión que los integre de manera global y en la práctica clínico-terapéutica. […]

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Can creativity be trained? Music and the brain

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Creativity is defined by novelty and meaningfullness and the creative production involves the generation of new possibilities as well as the selection and combination of previously produced ones. Several areas in the brain have been related with creativity: dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the anterior cingulate cortex, the presupplementary motor area, and the inferior frontal gyrus (see […]

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