AmilcarSilvaDosSantos

I am a medical doctor and psychiatrist at Hospital Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal and a researcher in neurobiology at Ana Sebastião Lab, Neuroscience Unit of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Lisbon. From March 2013 to February 2014, I worked as a vsiting scholar at the Neurobiology Department, Duke University, USA. I am interested in bipolar disorder, depression, brain-machine interface and spinal cord modulation as well as spinal cord – spinal cord connection.

Featured publications;

Silva-dos-Santos A (2017) The Hypothesis of Connecting Two Spinal Cords as a Way of Sharing Information between Two Brains and Nervous Systems. Front. Psychol. 8:105. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00105

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00105/full

Pais-Vieira, M., Yadav, A. P., Moreira, D., Guggenmos, D., Santos, A., Lebedev, M., et al. (2016). A closed loop brain-machine interface for epilepsy control using dorsal column electrical stimulation. Sci. Rep. 6:32814. doi: 10.1038/srep32814

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep32814

Other links:

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9537-4782

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amilcar-dos-santos-190b342

January 2017