Centro Universitário de Volta Redonda – UniFOA

Schedule of the Brain Awareness Week, first held in UniFOA, between 18/05 and 22/05, 2015. The objective was to reach a large audience with presentations focused on recent studies and scientific disclosures teaching potential the brain from neuroscience, experiencing and developing the capacity of this system. Day May 18, 2015 – Neuroanatomy 3D Professor Elder The opening event of the Brain Awareness Week, in this course was showed the parts of the brain with 3D illustrations and their functions. Day May 19, 2015 – Brain-machine interface Michael Luiz Martins Rocha: biologist (UERJ) On the second day a lecture on Brain Machine Interface with Michael Luiz Martins Rocha was held , he was talking about this interesting topic and how this can become a reality soon . Day May 20, 2015 – Party of the Senses On this day we made an activitie encompassing Taste, Smell, Vision, Touch and Hearing, showing how man usually does a combination of more than one of them to reach the results accurately. Day May 21, 2015 – Neuroscience and Drugs Cristiane Gorgati Guidoreni Sônia C. Moreira On this day was presented two lectures about how different drugs acts in our brains. Day May 22, 2015 – Human sexuality and it’s disorders Antônio Augusto Neves da Nobrega: Psychiatrist (USP) As final event we made a lecture about the main disorders of sexuality. We showed that this is also a part of humans that suffers influence of neurochemistry. At this point, our Week was officialy over.

We had a good feedback of our event with the university students, they showed more interest over neurosciences and some came to us asking an event about nanotechnology and neurosciences. The imeediate outcomes we saw was motivation in the participants, after the events they had a total different view about neurosciences, now they see as an importante and fun subject to know about.