Público // “Dementia, elections and the vote that needs no patronising”
CINTESIS researcher Pedro Machado do Santos wrote an opinion piece entitled "Dementia, elections and the vote that needs no patronising". The article was published in the Público on March 9. Read more. (in Portuguese)
New RISE-Health Research Unit Registers Over 1300 Researchers
On March 6, the new RISE-Health Research Unit completed the team registration stage. Proving that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts", RISE-Health registered a final number of integrated researchers greater than the sum of the researchers who were already part of each of the Research Units that led to its creation - CINTESIS - Center for [...]
Study by CINTESIS Researcher Shows Most Patients Prefer to Die at Home
"Most patients at the end of their lives prefer to receive their last care and die at home, with their families, with greater autonomy and dignity. Most of the patients' relatives prefer this too." This is the conclusion of a study carried out by Sara Pinto, a researcher at CINTESIS and lecturer at the Nursing School of Porto (ESEP), recently [...]
Jorge Leite: A Researcher with a Passion for Neuromodulation
Jorge Leite, who is passionate about brain research, neuromodulation and cognitive rehabilitation, is one of the most recent members of CINTESIS@RISE. The neuroscientist, who is also vice-rector for Research at Portucalense University and a university professor, explains that the main motivation for joining this Research Unit and Associate Laboratory was to be part of a network "capable of creating scale [...]
Expresso // Lia Fernandes on Mental Health and Ageing Podcast
“I know a couple who takes turns buying their medication due to lack of money: he takes it one month, she takes it another.” The interview with Lia Fernandes, CINTESIS@RISE researcher and professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, to the podcast "Que Voz é Esta?", from the newspaper Expresso. Read and listen here.
CINTESIS Researchers Assess Mental Health Literacy in Adult Population
CINTESIS@RISE, together with the Nursing School of Porto (ESEP) and the Portuguese Catholic University, is developing a study to assess the levels of mental health literacy in the Portuguese adult population. This joint work includes an online questionnaire to which all people aged 18 or older living in mainland Portugal or the Autonomous Regions of Madeira or the Azores can [...]