The game takes us on an adventure with two friends, Neuropal and Neuro, vacationing on a tropical paradise where unexpected events force everyone to escape. Neuropal will have to move through different landscapes and challenges to leave the island safely. Every completed level can be replayed as many times as we want, to show off our new safety skills and improve our score. Neuropal also includes quizzes about safety and a glossary where we can explore more about the nervous system.
It's with them that scientists are trying to learn how to overcome our limitations and restore the crucial functions of the spinal cord after a lesion
Joana Barros
cienciavitae
/ project direction
Associação Viver a Ciência website
Leonor Saúde Lab
website
Instituto de Medicina Molecular website
Luísa Freire
/ programmer linkedin
António Coelho
cienciavitae
FEUP website
Pedro Cardoso
cienciavitae
Universidade de Aveiro website
LGP < Simplify Team
website
FEUP
Rafael Maquiné
linkedin
Pedro Ribeiro
/ additional programming
Valter Abreu
website
Eduardo Magalhães
FEUP
Pedro Dias instagram
Pedro Oliveira
Élio Mateus
Hugo Raposo
Gustavo Carreiro
FAVO Studio
website
Francisco Ribeiro
Linkedin
Eduardo Almeida
Joana Barros
Carmen de Sena
Kingsley Walker
Neuropal
info@neuro-pal.org
Zebrafish have a remarkable ability to regenerate their spinal cords, being able to swim again even after severe injuries.
Lampreys are jawless, eel-like fish, that existe since before the time of the dinosaurs. They are known as living fossils, since they have not changed much from 360 million years ago.
Salamanders are cold-blooded vertebrates that spend part of their life cycle in water and part in land. They belong to the Amphibia class, a term derived from the Ancient Greek meaning 'both kinds of life'.
Opossums are mammals that have the rare ability of being able to regenerate their spinal cords, but only for up to 9-12 days after they are born.
The common ancestor of humans and mice split just 80 million years ago, making us extremely similar, genetically speaking.