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Clinical and Experimental

Neuropsychology Newsletter

April 2019

Newsletter from the Inter-University Master in Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

INTHISISSUE

Editorial Welcome to the Inaugural Edition

of the IMCEN

Let me start by welcoming all of you to the firsteditionof the Inter-universityMaster inClinicalandExperimentalNeuropsychology(IMCEN).ThisisalsothefirstissueofourNewsletter.Everymonthwewillbring you here news and announcements fromIMCEN.

A few years ago, faculty from the Universities ofCoimbra, Lisbon andMinho (Portugal), decided toputtogethertheirresearchandclinicalexpertise inneurosciences and launched an innovative inter-university program in clinical and experimentalneuropsychology.

Our core faculty includes some of the topPortuguese researchers in the psychologicalneuroscienceswith a diversity of backgrounds andexpertise (see pages 3-5). Our resident labsintegrate, altogether, more than 100 researchers(among faculty, researchers, postdocs and PhDstudents) and provide state of the art facilities forneuro-biochemistry, psychophysiology,neuropsychological testing, neuromodulation,neurophysiology,neuroimagingandpsychophysicsresearch(seepage6).

Neuropsychology is a discipline dedicated to thestudyofbrain-mindrelationshipinanappliedand/or experimental context. The practice ofneuropsychology includes the assessment,treatment and rehabilitation of individuals withbrain disorders. The pratice of clinicalneuropsychology needs to be grounded in currentscientific knowledged derived from rigorousexperimentalwork.

During the lastdecades, technological advances inneuroscienceresearchallowedforthepossibilityofunparalleled visualization andmodulation of brainfunctioning, inreal-time. Theseadvancementsarerevolutionizing neuropsychology, calling for anintegration of knowledge from a diversity ofdomains such as psychology, biology, neuro-psychiatry, neuroimaging, psychometry orcomputerscience.

The IMCEN program aims at training the nextgeneration of neuropsychologist with a solidbackgroundinexperimentalneurosciences.

IMCEN students will be integrated in one of thethree resident campi but will benefit from theeducational, experimental and clinical resourcesofallcooperatinguniversities.Theoreticallectureswillbe provided locally or on line to students at threecampi.Studentswillalsobenefitfromjointpracticaltraining (research and clinical) through workshopsheldineachofthelabs.Allstudentsarerequiredtocomplete a laboratory rotation (major) at thehostuniversity (resident lab), along with a secondrotation (minor) at one of the other cooperatinguniversities. Finally, the program includes amaster's thesis held at the host university and aneuropsychology practicum at one of thecooperatingclinics.

Coming from different institutions but with acommon endeavor we want this Clinical andExperimentalNeuropsychologyNewslettertobethescaffoldingofanewemergingidentity.

Enjoyyourreading!

ÓscarF.Gonçalves,PhD–ProgramDirector

Editorial Page1MeetOurCoreFaculty Page2VisitOurResidentLabs Page5UnderstandOurTrainingModelPage6HowToBecomeAnIMCENStudent Page7VisitourWebpage

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Meet our Core Faculty

University of Minho

ÓscarF.Gonçalves

AdrianaSampaio

Full Professor at the University of Minho -Portugal andSeniorResearchAssociateat theSpauldingNeuromodulationCenter,SpauldingRehabilitation Hospital-Harvard MedicalSchool -USA.Heheld facultypositions at theUniversity of Porto - Portugal (AssistantProfessor), University of California SantaBarbara - USA (Assistant Professor) andNortheastern University - USA (Full Professorand Chair of Applied Psychology). Hegraduated in Psychology from University ofPorto and completed two doctoral degrees:one from the Counseling, School andConsulting Psychology Program, University ofMassachusetts, Amherst – USA; and anotherone in Neurosciences from the Faculty ofMedicine - University of Santiago deCompostela – Spain. He is a licensed Clinicaland Health Psychologist with boardcertifications in neuropsychology andpsychotherapy.

Assistant Professor and director of thePsychological Neuroscience Lab in the School ofPsychology, University of Minho, Portugal. SheholdsanMDbytheUniversityofPortoandaPhDbytheUniversityofMinho.SheislicensedbothasPsychologist and as a Medical Doctor. Her mainresearch is in the fieldofdevelopmental cognitiveneuroscience, namely in the structural andneurofunctional and genetic basis of (ab)normalcognitive and emotional processes. In particular,using cutting edge technologies that combinemorphometric with functional neuroimagingmeasures, her work aims to map specificneurodevelopmental processes associated withnormal higher cognitive function and their age-related trajectories, by looking at the dynamicinterplay between genetic, biological, andenvironmental factors that shape braindevelopment.

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Meet our Core Faculty

University of Coimbra

MárioR.Simões

JorgeAlmeida

Full Professor and Director of PsyAssessmentLabheisPIoftheResearchGroupNeuropsychologicalAssessment and Ageing Processes (NAAP) ofCenter for Research in Neuropsychology andCognitiveBehavioral Intervention(CINEICC)oftheUniversityofCoimbra.HeisalicensedpsychologistandaPhDinPsychologicalAssessmentwithboardcertification in Neuropsychology by thePortuguese Psychological Association. Heparticipated actively as a principal investigator ofprojectswithexternal funding (FCT, FCG)and / oras a supervisor of doctoral theses and master'sdissertationsinresearchthatledtotheadaptationand/or validationofmore than 30 tests andother(neuro) psychological assessment instruments forthe Portuguese population (e.g., MPCR, WISC-III,WAIS-III, BANC, ACE-R, MoCA, TeLPI, FCSRT,CANTAB,IAFAI,EPQ-R,BDI-II,TOMM).

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychologyand Educational Sciences of the University ofCoimbra - Portugal and Director of the ProactionLab. He graduated in Psychology from Universityof Lisbon, andobtainedhisMaster's andDoctoraldegree from the Department of Psychology,HarvardUniversity–USA.He iscurrentlythePIorCo-PIin4FCTresearchprojects,andishePIofthefirst ERC grant in the field of Psychology inPortugal – ContentMAP. His core research topicsare: Cognitive Neuroscience, object recognition,neural organization of conceptual knowledge,category specificity in the brain, and effects ofneurostimulationonneuralprocessing.

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Meet our Core Faculty

University of Lisbon

AnaPinheiro

AnaRaposo

AssistantProfessor at theFacultyofPsychology -UniversityofLisbonandCoordinatorof theVoice,Affect & Speech (VAS) Neuroscience Lab. Shegraduated in Psychology from the University ofMinho, andobtainedher PhD from theUniversityof Minho, having completed Doctoral and Post-Doctoral training in Clinical Neurosciences atHarvardMedical School. She is a licensed ClinicalandHealthPsychologistwithboardcertificationinneuropsychology. She is currently PI or co-PI ofseveral research projects funded by FCT or BIAL.Her core research topics are: neuroscience ofvoice/speech perception, psychosis andhallucinations, and the effects of sensoryprediction on brain processing. She keeps activecollaborations with researchers at University ofMaastrichtandHarvardMedicalSchool.

Assistant Professor at Faculty of Psychology -Universityof Lisbonandmemberof theResearchCenter for Psychological Science (Memory andLanguageLab).She is currentlyexecutivedirectoroftheMind-BrainCollegeofULisboa.Shereceivedher PhD from the University of Cambridge andconducted postdoctoral research at DukeUniversity. She is interested in the cognitive andneural bases of human memory. Her researchcombines behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI)methods to gain a better understanding of themechanisms that support retrieval of pastexperiences and expression of knowledge. Shekeeps active collaborations with researchers atFundação Champalimaud, University of EastLondonandUCL.

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Visit our Resident Labs

Voice, Affect & Speech Neuroscience Lab -University of Lisbon

We use behavioral, neurophysiological andneuroimaging tools to probe voice, affect andspeech.Ultimately,thesestudiesaimtobringuscloser to understanding why some people hearvoiceswhenthereisnobodyspeaking.Thisworkhasbeenpossibleduetoacombinationofskillsand knowledge from psychologists, biomedicalengineers, computational linguists, andmedicaldoctors.https://vaslaboratory.wordpress.com/

Cognition in Context Research Group of CICPSI - University of Lisbon CO2 investigates thecognitivemechanismsandneural underpinnings of voice and speechperception, long-term memory, literacyacquisition and reading development. Aninterdisciplinary approach is used to studyneurocognitive adaptation and plasticity inlearning and changing contexts with multiplemethods: behavioral paradigms (e.g.eye-movement recordings), neuroimagingtechniques (fMRI, EEG) and neuropsychologicalstudies (dyslexia, autism, dementia,schizophrenia).https://www.psicologia.ulisboa.pt/cicpsi/co2/

Proaction Lab -University of Coimbra

Currently we have three main areas: objectrecognition and the organization of objectknowledge; how connectivity shapes neuralprocessing and organization; and onneuroplasticity in special populations. Ourlaboratory uses a multimethod approach toaddresstheseresearchquestions.Wehavebeenusing Visual Psychophysics (fast presentationmonitors and custom made fast PIO buttonboxes), fMRI (SIEMENS Trio Tim 3T MRIScanner), andneuromodulation (TMSand tDCSwith neuronavigation). We also have access toEyetracking (tobii), and Motion Tracking(Optotrak).https://gaius.fpce.uc.pt/pessoais/jorgealmeida/proaction_home.html

PsyAssessmentLab -University of Coimbra

In thePsyAssessementLabwedo researchwithtesting and other instruments of(neuro)psychological assessment. ThePsyAssessmentLab team has knowledge andexperience in the area of PsychologicalAssessment in Portugal at different levels(Research, Practice, Teaching), in differentcontextsofapplicationandprofessionalpractice(clinical, health, forensics, education,organizational).http://psyassessmentlab.fpce.uc.pt

Psychological Neurosciences Lab -University of Minho

The main objective of the PNL is thedevelopment of research in the area of humanclinical neurosciences. We take advantage ofseveral methodological approaches asautonomicmeasures (polygraph andbiofeedback), EEG/ERP; TMS/tDCS,neuroimaging, and neurobiochemistry inpursuing theneural andphysiological correlatesofhumanbehaviour.

https://psychologicalneurosciencelab.weebly.com

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Understand our Training Model

PotentiatingFacultyResources

IMCEN is an innovative graduate program joining the facultyandresearchresourcesfromthreetopPortugueseUniversities(UniversitiesofCoimbra,LisbonandMinho).

NeuropsychologicalPractice

IMCENaimsattrainingstudentsinprovidingandinnovatingneuropsychologypracticegroundedonthemostrecentdevelopmentsfromexperimentalneurosciences.

LargeScopeTraining

We have a large scope master program providing extensivetraining in neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitationalong with training in experimental system's level and/orcognitiveneuroscience.

CombinedTeachingModel

Ourcombinedteachingmodelpotentiatesstudentandfacultyinteraction across the three campi, relying on four mainstrategies: (1) opportunities for distance learning; (2) jointintensive workshops integrating students and faculty from thethree universities; (3) hybrid model combining online and livetraining;(4)intensiveresearchandclinicalpracticum.

FourSemesterTrainingProgram

Distance Learning- Some of the courses include weekly lecturestaught at one campus and provided in real time to the other twocampi: Functional Neuroanatomy; Cognitive, Emotional and SocialNeurosciences; Neuropsychological and PsychopathologicalSyndromes.

Joint intensiveworkshops-Other courses consist of intensive jointworkshops provided simultaneously to all students alternating atdifferent campi:ResearchMethods inNeuropsychologyandClinicalNeuropsychologySkills.

Hybrid Model- Still other courses will follow an hybrid model inwhich online weekly sessions in real time will be followed up bypractical activities in each of the campi: NeuropsychologicalAssessmentandNeuropsychologicalRehabilitation.

IntensiveResearchandClinicalPracticum-Finally,theexperimentalneuropsychology rotations (major and minor) and master thesis,along with the clinical neuropsychology practicum, includeintensive practical training in the associated labs and/or clinics.Clinical and research residence activities are followed up withweeklyseminars provided real time to students from the threecampi.

1stSemester 2ndSemester 3rd&4thSemesters

ResearchMethodsinNeuropsychology–5ECTS

NeuropsychologicalandPsychopathologicalSyndromes–5ECTS

MasterThesisinClinicalandExperimentalNeuropsychology–30ECTS

FunctionalNeuronanatomy– 5ECTS

ClinicalNeuropsychologySkills–10ECTS

PracticuminClinicalNeuropsychology–30ECTS

Cognitive,EmotionalandSocialNeuroscience–5ECTS

NeuropsychologicalAssessment–5ECTS

ExperimentalNeuropsychologyRotation-Major–15ECTS

NeuropsychologicalRehabilitation-5ECTS

ExperimentalNeuropsychologyRotation-Minor–5ECTS

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How to Become an IMCEN Student

Ifyouhaveanundergraduatedegree inPsychologyorPsychologicalSciences and are interested in pursuing a research/clinical career inneuropsychology,considerapplyingtoIMCEN

We are looking for highlymotivated international young graduateswithsolidtraininginpsychologyandneurosciences.Alltheteachingwill be in English and you are required to be fluent in written andspokenEnglishlanguage

All the applications will take place online and the applicationsprocedurescanbefoundat:

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