

LOB member passes his Qualification Exam
Our Giovani Grisoti Martins passed the Qualification Exam required for his M.Sc. dissertation. In the exam, Giovani explained his M.Sc....


fNIRS Training Course 2018
Our annual fNIRS training course has a date for 2018: April 6-7, 2018! The LOB fNIRS course is an onsite hands on course on fNIRS...


LOB member appointed as Associate Editor for Neurophotonics
Prof. Rickson C. Mesquita has been appointed as Associate Editor of Neurophotonics, a peer-reviewed journal published by SPIE. The...


Measurement of cerebral oxygenation during exercise with NIRS
Collaborative studies between UFRN and our lab used NIRS to measure cerebral oxygenation during exercise. The first 2 papers from a...


Pilot study with carotid atherosclerotic patients published
Congrats to our Edwin Forero and Sergio Novi, who put together a nice paper regarding the use of fNIRS to probe occlusion severity in...


Our Gio is awarded a distinct scholarship for independent study
Our Giovanni Scavariello was awarded a scholarship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) to develop independent study at LOB. ...


Our NIRS/fMRI team in the local news
Yeah, that is right! Although the news had nothing to do with NIRS, our team was there, right in the middle. And they even used our...


LOB work presented at the IV BRAINN Congress
Some of our team members presented their work at the IV BRAINN Congress. Our Sergio Novi presented his main findings on functional...


Our first fNIRS hands-on course is over
It's over! :( We thank all researchers who attended our first fNIRS course in Brazil. It was a great opportunity to teach fNIRS and NIRS...


LOB studies presented in the US
We thank the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Rochester for the invitation and opportunity to present some of our...