Technical notebooks 05 - Longevity and neurosciences

Digital and Physical

Longevity and Neurosciences is presented as the theme of the fifth volume of the Technical Notebooks of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa.
Accompanying the increase in life expectancy, neurodegenerative diseases have been registering a significant growth. Incurable and highly debilitating, the impact of these pathologies is far from being exhausted in Health, contaminating the entire society across the board.
At the same time, it is possible to recognize the present moment as one of the most extraordinary in terms of neuroscientific advances. Due to the importance they assume, with this Technical Notebook Santa Casa intends to make another contribution towards sharing new lines of investigation and the new and increasingly effective therapeutic proposals that result from them. In addition to medical-scientific approaches, there are also reflections on legal realities and ethical-philosophical issues that arise as a result of problems associated with longevity or the practice of medicine itself.

Coordination: DIRECTOR Edmundo Martinho; ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Maria Margarida Montenegro; DEPUTY DIRECTOR Samuel Esteves; EDITORIAL COORDINATION Dora Santos Rosa

Authors: Rita Paiva Chaves (Director of the Quality and Innovation Department at SCML); Sandra Morais Cardoso (Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra; Principal Investigator at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology at the University of Coimbra); Luísa Lopes (Principal Researcher at the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM); Invited Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon); Óscar Ribeiro (Coordinator of PT100 - Study of the Centenaries of Porto. Research Center in Health Technologies and Services, University of Aveiro); André Gonçalo Dias Pereira (Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra; Director of the Center for Biomedical Law; Researcher at the Legal Institute); Luís Madeira, Diana Micu (Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon) and Susana Alves (Psychiatric Hospital Center of Lisbon)

Review: Marta Rosa
Illustrator: Cristina Cascais

Year of publication: July 2020
Editor: Editorial Center of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
ISBN: 2184-612X