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Scientific publication

The article 

Effects of electrocardiogram qrs detection algorithms in heart rate variability metrics

has been published in Scientific Reports

Scientific publication

The article A multi-frequency whole-brain neural mass model with homeostatic feedback inhibition  has been published in PLOS Computational Biology

Scientific workshop

Monica Otero and Pavel Prado will give a talk at the Workshop for Scientic Collaboration USS-BUPA Clinic

Scientific publication

The article  Source-space EEG Alpha Activity Reveals Brain Age Gaps Due to Neurodegeneration and Disparity has been published in Communications Biology

Scientific publication

The article  Neural Dynamics and Acoustic Adaptations During the Lombard Effect: Evidence from EEG and Dynamic Causal Modeling has been accepted for publication in Scientific Report

Scientific publication

The article  The exposome of brain aging across 34 countries has been published in Nature Medicine

Scientific Symposium

Pavel Prado will give the talk Harmonizing Multicenter EEG Data in Dementia Research: The BrainLat Approach at the first First Virtual Meeting / Mini-Symposium Fundamentals of Open & Rigorous EEG Science

Scientific Congress

Pavel Prado will give the talk Rehabilitation and Quality of Life Research: Social and Technological Innovation for Territorial Impact at Jornadas Académicas de Salud

Newspaper article 

USS secures 23 competitive national research grants in the 2026 funding cycle (FONDECYT Regular 2026), strengthening Its research leadership 

Research grant

Developing EEG-Based Brain Clocks for Predicting Neurodegenerative Diseases in Diverse Populations, by Pavel Prado (PI), Mónica Otero and Matías Zañartu, was awarded by ANID FONDECYT Regular 2026

Scientific publication

The article  Brief Personalised Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation Facilitates Cognitive and Neural Processing in Ageing has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

TV news story

Pavel Prado talks in CNN Chile about brain health, brain age, and art 

Scientific publication

The article Predicting accelerated and delayed aging in global settings: biobehavioral age gaps and the role of global exposomes 

 has been published in  Alzheimer's & Dementia

Scientific Workshop

Research groups from Universidad de Valparaiso, Universidas Adolfo Ibañez and Universidad San Sebastian shared experiencies in a Workshop on Computing Neuroscience 

ENFONO 2025 

Students from the Speech-Language Pathology program  successfully presented the talk Methodological considerations for ASSR estimation, at ENFONO 2025


Audiology and Speech pathology program 

Students from the Speech-Language Pathology program  successfully defended the thesis Corollary discharge in schizophrenia


Audiology and Speech pathology program 

Students from the Speech-Language Pathology program  successfully defended the thesis ASSR as a measure of neural synchrony in schizophrenia


Scientific publication

The article   

Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis in 27 European countries has been published in  Nature Aging

Scientific Congress

Pavel Prado gave the talk  Scientific Advances and Clinical Challenges in the Use of EEG Biomarkers for Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases at the  Symposium on Cognitive Health in Older Adults: Towards New Therapeutic Frontiers 

Scientific Congress

Andrea Fernández, Elida Poo, Felipe Carriel, Leonardo Zúñiga, Monica Otero, and Pavel Prado presented at the Annual Meeting of the Chilean Society of Neuroscience

Scientific publication

The article   

Creative experiences and brain clocks has been published in  Nature Communications

Videos and podcasts

TV program

Pavel Prado talks in CNN about the effect of litium on the brain function in Alzheimer´s disease.


Radio interview

Pavel Prado talks on CooperativaCiencia.cl about brain clocks and how enviromental factors impact  

brain aging.


TV program

Pavel Prado talks in CNN about the accumulation of micro- and nanoplastics in the brain.

Research Highlights

Mónica Otero presents her research in Computational Neuroscience

Cheers and congratulations

A group of academics and researchers acknowledge the work of audiologists and speech-language pathologists.

Interview of Pavel Prado in Rockstars, from TXS plus


Pavel Prado talk with  Gabriel León about science in Rockstars, an interview program at  TXS PlLUS

Interview of Monica Otero in Cience for the future, from TXS plus

Mónica Otero talks about the use of computational modelling to uncode brain function  

A method for tracking the time evolution of steady-state evoked potentials 

This video is part of the paper A method for tracking the time evolution of steady-state responses, authored by Prado-Gutierrez et al., and published in Journal of Visualized Experiments (2019)

Annual Technical Meeting of the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E) 2018

Monica Otero won third prize in the competition for the Best Research Project

Annual Technical Meeting of the Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (AC3E) 2017

Pavel Prado won first prize in the competition for the Best Research Project