Taís Malysz
Doutora em Neurociências (UFRGS)
She is currently an Associate Professor, with full-time dedication, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, affiliated with the Department of Morphological Sciences and the Graduate Program in Neurosciences. She graduated in Physical Therapy from the State University of Santa Catarina (1998) and obtained a PhD in Neurosciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2010). She is involved in research, extension activities, administration, and teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the course instructor for "Human Neuroanatomy" in the program. She coordinates an extension activity: Neurofunctional Assessment of Older Adults. She leads research in the field of functional neuroanatomy, with projects involving human subjects and experimental models. (1) She studies the effects of interventions in humans (e.g., physical exercise and/or transcranial electrical stimulation) on variables related to motor and cognitive functionality. (2) She conducts descriptive neuroanatomical studies (macroscopic, microscopic, and ultrastructural) on human tissue and on tissue from Wistar rats subjected to different experimental conditions.