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• 24 sep 2013	25 sep 2013	26 sep 2013
  27 sep 2013

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Psyche

  Twenty five years of international research into drug addiction

  Comparative approaches to five key subjects

  This international conference has a double aim: firstly to celebrate and reconstitute these 25 years of work and commitment in this area. Secondly, to open up debate and publicise the scientific results of the latest research project: “Analysis of policies and practices in the area of the use and abuse of drugs. Catholic universities in dialogue with political and social agents” which the centre has been coordinating for three years.

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• 04 mar 2013

  Lisbon

  Study days - Sociology

  Novas substâncias psicoativas – políticas públicas e investig(ação)

  Propõe-se com esta conferência um envolvimento e discussão institucional que se revele determinante na construção de uma resposta nacional para o fenómeno das drogas “legais”. O CNJ considera muito importante abrir canais de comunicação institucional onde se promova uma reflexão política, académica e empírica para encontrar metodologias de intervenção eficazes de combate ao consumo destas novas substâncias, com particular atenção no consumo entre os jovens portugueses. Esta conferência é organizada pelo Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), em parceria com o Conselho Nacional de Juventude (CNJ), Instituto do Desporto e Juventude, I.P (IPDJ,I.P.) e Serviço de Intervenção nos Comportamentos Aditivos e nas Dependências (SICAD).

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• 25 mai 2013

  Lisbon

  Study days - Language

  Music, poetry and the brain

  It is indisputable that, with his operas, Wagner introduced profound new insights relating music, language (poetry) and emotion. It is widely consensual that with his dramas, Wagner intended to explore human mind and behaviour with the power of music. In fact, never before was music so systematically used as a tool for describing and interpreting facts, events, beliefs, desires, intentions, memories and emotions. In the last decades, there has been much advance in the understanding of the cerebral basis of music and its relationships with brain mechanisms of language, cognition and emotion. In short, music has also been shown to be a powerful pathway to understand human mind and behaviour...

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