Tania Alexandra Couto
University of Macau, China
Biography
Tania Alexandra Couto is a Portuguese neuroscience researcher currently based in Macau, SAR, China. Her work is developed in the neuroimaging department in Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Macau. The research aims are focused on neuroimaging fusion projects, integrating NIRS-ERP simultaneous measurements, applied to neuropsychiatric disorders. She has participated in different conferences, symposiums and Congress as speaker on a subject of Neurofeedback; haemodynamic approach with NIRS tool; NIRS-ERP studies: multimodal approach applied to neuropsychiatric disorders. She combines clinic experience in neurofeedback -EEG, cognitive rehabilitation and clinic psychology in several hospitals and Portuguese clinics between 2009-2016 and also, a valuable internship in Stroke Unit in King´s Hospital College (London), where she had the opportunity to develop her clinical practice with stroke acute patients, her major area of interest in cognitive rehabilitation. In parallel, the neurofeedback /EEG-Q clinic experience allowed to develop a deep interest in neuro creativity applied to the neuropsychiatric and healthy population. As PhD student, she has been worked on the neurofeedback application in a multimodal approach (NIRS-ERP studies), focused on working memory and visual creativity.