Casto Rivadulla is a Physiology Lecturer in Universidade da Coruña. Investigator in Neuroscience. Biology PhD by Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Fullbright Intern in Massachusetts Institute of Technology and currently a member of NEUROcom. As disseminator he was coordinator of the exhibition "O mundo na túa cabeza" made in collaboration with I+D Xunta de Galicia to commemorate the centenary of the Nobel Prize to Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2006). 2nd prize of IV Certamen "Teresa Pinillos" Scientific and Humanistic Dissemination, Ensaya'08. One of the creators, organizers and participants of Scientific Café-Teatro, one of the most succesful activities of scientific dissemination in Galicia, selected by Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología as "inspirational experience".

Member of Society for Neuroscience, Sociedad Española de Ciencias Fisiológicas and Sociedade Española de Neurociencia.

Scientific interest

During his PhD he described the function of nitric oxide (NO) in the processing of visual signs in the thalamo and the cortex. Since that moment his interest was focused on how the brain codes the reality which receives from the outside in order to creat complex sensations. He has great experience in image, pharmacological and non-invasive neuromodulation techniques. The last part of his activity is related to reveal the role of feedback connections within the processing of visual information and the role of the initial structures of processing in filtering and selecting relevant stimulus. Moreover he has collaborated in projects related to Parkinson Disease and the neuromodulation techniques for epilepsy treatment.