LIMMIT Lab's mission is to promote and develop scientific research, as well as to disseminate, disseminate, teach and provide services within the science of consciousness, namely in mind-matter interaction and bioinformation. For the described objective, the laboratory mobilizes multidisciplinary skills and promotes possible therapeutic applications in the domain.
From this perspective, LIMMIT Lab strives to implement its activity through three main pillars:
I. Science and Medicine: translational scientific research in frontier areas of knowledge;
II. Education: postgraduate courses, optional subjects, pilot courses outside the University, public lectures at conferences, congresses and the like;
III. Community: implementation of volunteering, training and dissemination programs for medical students, doctors, psychologists and nurses.
Reviewing the activity of these five years, and bearing in mind that all the work carried out was carried out on a voluntary basis, there is a feeling of a certain joy. The lack of funds for regular functioning did not allow for an investigation of its own, but only one that derived from the interest of the volunteers and their projects. These were motivated to obtain an academic degree. There seemed and seems to be a need for a space to host projects, interests and people who have not found it in other institutions or laboratories. Certainly, the laboratory's activity would be greater if there were the possibility of having a paid resident researcher.
Naturally, frontier themes, given their own characteristics (subjectivity, non-ordinary states of consciousness and probabilistic reproducibility) have always raised some suspicion not only in the field of exact sciences, but in the humanist ones (Medicine, Psychology, Philosophy).
LIMMIT's goals and activities were no exception. Here, it is worth thanking, underlining and praising the people and institutions linked to them, who unconditionally supported this project: Doutor Luís Portela, Prof. Doctor Fernandes and Fernandes, Prof. Doctor Maria de Sousa, Master Luís Pereira and Prof. Doctor Fausto Pinto.
Last but not the least, a special word of recognition for the two institutions that “dared” to support the installation of LIMMIT – the Bial Foundation, which granted a special grant for its installation and the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, which provided the space .
From this perspective, LIMMIT Lab strives to implement its activity through three main pillars:
I. Science and Medicine: translational scientific research in frontier areas of knowledge;
II. Education: postgraduate courses, optional subjects, pilot courses outside the University, public lectures at conferences, congresses and the like;
III. Community: implementation of volunteering, training and dissemination programs for medical students, doctors, psychologists and nurses.
Reviewing the activity of these five years, and bearing in mind that all the work carried out was carried out on a voluntary basis, there is a feeling of a certain joy. The lack of funds for regular functioning did not allow for an investigation of its own, but only one that derived from the interest of the volunteers and their projects. These were motivated to obtain an academic degree. There seemed and seems to be a need for a space to host projects, interests and people who have not found it in other institutions or laboratories. Certainly, the laboratory's activity would be greater if there were the possibility of having a paid resident researcher.
Naturally, frontier themes, given their own characteristics (subjectivity, non-ordinary states of consciousness and probabilistic reproducibility) have always raised some suspicion not only in the field of exact sciences, but in the humanist ones (Medicine, Psychology, Philosophy).
LIMMIT's goals and activities were no exception. Here, it is worth thanking, underlining and praising the people and institutions linked to them, who unconditionally supported this project: Doutor Luís Portela, Prof. Doctor Fernandes and Fernandes, Prof. Doctor Maria de Sousa, Master Luís Pereira and Prof. Doctor Fausto Pinto.
Last but not the least, a special word of recognition for the two institutions that “dared” to support the installation of LIMMIT – the Bial Foundation, which granted a special grant for its installation and the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, which provided the space .
