Helena MRC Freire
Laboratory of Neuroscience, Brazil
Biography
Helena MRC Freire brings her expertise in physiology and cell biology to improve health and well-being. Her therapeutic proposal of electrical vagal stimulation in the model of neuropathic pain induced by responsive chemotherapy creates new ways to improve health. She built this model and is evaluating the analgesic potential of paVNS (percutaneous auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation) in the neuroscience laboratory of Hospital Sirio Libanes.