Postgraduate Program in Psychobiology – Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Literature of Ribeirão Preto/ University of São Paulo (FFCLRP/USP)

Our activities intended to pass information about discoveries in neurosciences’ field to population and for this we worked with teenagers, youngs and older people. The results was positive because this was an impressive adhesion eventhough it was the first time the postgraduation program participated in BAW . The main public was composed by students, education coordinators and school supervisors and they were very receptives. Students were very atencious , with a lot of curiosity on the subjects and raised many questions . At the stands, each postgraduate student presented themes as memory, perception, speaking and hearing. This issues are related to health problems founded currently in old age. In the activity that envolved the elderly people, we noted that the integration between students and older people was very great. We have conducted some tests to understand the perception process. We saw during the tests that there they have acknowledge of this subject to daily life and health care.

Many issues are still new and distant to population and need to be explained more acessible and contextualized for them. Because usually researchers use currently an academic language full of specific therminologies.