Raimundo Jose Macario Costa

Computational Neuroscience

Understanding the core function of the brain is one the major challenges of our times. In the areas of neuroscience and education, several new studies try to correlate the learning difficulties faced by children and youth with behavioral and social problems. This work aims to present the challenges and opportunities of computational neuroscience research, with the aim of detecting people with learning disorders. We present a line of investigation based on the key areas: neuroscience, cognitive sciences and computer science, which considers young people between nine and eighteen years of age, with or without a learning disorder. The adoption of neural networks reveals consistency in dealing with pattern recognition problems and they are shown to be effective for early detection in patients with these disorders. We argue that computational neuroscience can be used for identifying and analyzing young Brazilian people with several cognitive disorders.