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Sidarta Tollendal Gomes Ribeiro (Brasília, April 16, 1971) is a Brazilian neuroscientist, writer, science communicator, and deputy director of the Brain Institute at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), which he joined in 2008 as full professor. Sidarta is the author of The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreaming, his fifth book (released in English on August 17, 2021), and a contributor for Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil´s largest newspaper. Member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences (ACAL) since 2016, he is associate editor of the journals PLoS One, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience and Frontiers In Psychology - Language Sciences. He is a member of the Council of the Sociedade brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC), the Steering Committee of the Latin American School for Educational, Cognitive and Neural Sciences [1] and the Center for Research, Innovation and Education in Neuromathematics (NeuroMat).[3] He served as secretary of the Brazilian Society of Neuroscience and Behavior (SBNeC) in the triennium 2009-2011 and was a member of the Brazilian committee of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences between 2011 and 2015. Academic degrees Bachelor of Biological Sciences by Universidade de Brasília (1989–1993) Master's in Biophysics by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1994) Ph.D. in Animal Behavior by Rockefeller University (1995–2000) Postdoctoral research in Neurophysiology with a "Pew Latin-American Fellowship in the Biomedical Sciences" at Duke University (2000–2005) Fields of research Sleep, dreaming and memory Immediate genes and neuroplasticity Vocal communication in birds and primates Symbolic competence in non-human animals Computational psychiatry Neuroscience applied to education Psychedelics and drug policy Awards Medical Innovation Award: Innovation in Diagnostic Medicine Category, Abril & Dasa, 2018 SUS Award Best Published Paper Category, Ministry of Health (Brazil), 2017 Celso Furtado Award, Ministry of National Integration (Brazil), 2017 Latin American Research Award, Google, 2017 “Exemplifying the Mission of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society, International Mind” Award, Brain and Education Society (IMBES), 2014 Trip Transformadores Award: "Sleep" Category, TRIP Editora, 2007 Pew Latin American Fellowship in the Biomedical Sciences, Pew Foundation, 2001 Guimarães Rosa Award, Radio France Internationale, 1996 The Oracle of Night In his book The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dream, Sidarta Ribeiro starts from the questions "what are dreams and what is their role in the evolution of human consciousness?" To answer, he articulates several narratives: the biological evolution of sleep and oneiric phenomena, the cultural history of dream interpretations and their social functions, psychological and psychoanalytic investigations and theories, and recent discoveries of neuroscience. Biology, history, anthropology, studies of mythology, religion and art are combined in this work, accessible to laymen willing to a careful reading of passages of a more strictly scientific nature. Based on a large and diverse body of evidence, the author unfolds the vision suggested in the book's title: that dreams are a "probabilistic oracle" in which memories are rearranged to predict and rehearse possible futures, anticipating risks and opportunities. The Oracle of Night describes dreams as an essential feature in the evolutionary process that made Homo sapiens an exceptionally versatile and inventive animal – a resource that needs to be rediscovered in this historical moment of great challenges for the future of the planet and the human species. Gathering neuroscientists in Natal In the 1990s, Sidarta Ribeiro and fellow neuroscientists Claudio Mello, Sergio Neuenschwander, Antonio Pereira, Cecília Hedin-Pereira, Claudia Vargas and Mário Fiorani, began the repatriation project that gave origin to the International Institute for Neuroscience of Natal (ELS-IINN), founded by Sidarta Ribeiro, Miguel Nicolelis and Claudio Mello in 2003. This initiative was promoted by the public sector, with decisive support from the Ministries of Education and Science. As a consequence, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) undertook the creation of a world-class neuroscience research center in Natal as part of its strategic plan for future development. In order to implement the project in a solid manner, the university engaged since 2008 in a major recruitment effort, publicized internationally in venues such as Nature and Science magazine, to recruit a group of faculty with international training in some of the most prestigious research centers in the world. The group currently includes 18 faculty duly selected by public contests: Adriano Tort, Antonio Pereira, Maria Bernardete de Sousa, Claudio Queiroz, Diego Laplagne, Draulio de Araujo, Lia Bevilaqua, Katarina Leão, Kerstin Schmidt, Marcos Costa, Martin Cammarota, Richardson Leão, Rodrigo Pereira, Sandro de Souza, Sergio Neuenschwander, Sidarta Ribeiro, and Tarciso Velho. On May 13, 2011, Sidarta Ribeiro took part in the inauguration of the Brain Institute (Instituto do Cérebro - ICe), together with Ivonildo do Rego and Angela Paiva, former and current Presidents of UFRN, academic leaders, faculty, technicians and students. On July 26, 2011, the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo published an article reporting the split between Miguel Nicolelis and the faculty of UFRN recruited for the Natal Neuroscience project. The main reason cited for the split was the lack of access of the University’s faculty to the equipment at IINN-ELS. This information was confirmed by Science magazine. An article in the Brazilian magazine Piauí further clarified that the faculty exodus from the ELS-IINN was caused by widespread dissatisfaction with Nicolelis’ management. Works Selected scientific publications The entropic tongue: Disorganization of natural language under LSD. Sanz C, Pallavicini C, Carrillo F, Zamberlan F, Sigman M, Mota N, Copelli M, Ribeiro S, Nutt D, Carhart-Harris R, Tagliazucchi E.Conscious Cogn. 2021 Jan;87:103070. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.103070. Neuroscience and education: prime time to build the bridge. Sigman M, Peña M, Goldin AP, Ribeiro S.Nat Neurosci. 2014 Apr;17(4):497-502. doi: 10.1038/nn.3672. Structural differences between REM and non-REM dream reports assessed by graph analysis. Martin JM, Andriano DW, Mota NB, Mota-Rolim SA, Araújo JF, Solms M, Ribeiro S.PLoS One. 2020 Jul 23;15(7):e0228903. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228903. Memory corticalization triggered by REM sleep: mechanisms of cellular and systems consolidation. Almeida-Filho DG, Queiroz CM, Ribeiro S.Cell Mol Life Sci. 2018 Oct;75(20):3715-3740. doi: 10.1007/s00018-018-2886-9. Dreaming during the Covid-19 pandemic: Computational assessment of dream reports reveals mental suffering .... Discover the Sidarta Ribeiro popular books. 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