The project
Krinos investigates a specific thesis: neurodevelopmental disorders are circuit phenomena, and circuit phenomena can be corrected — not merely compensated for — when attacked with the right tools, within the right window.
The current clinical paradigm accepts atypical routing as given and trains the patient to live around it. Years of behavioral therapy. Medication for symptoms. Environmental accommodation. None of it acts on the circuit itself.
The neuroscience of critical periods, precision neuromodulation and AI applied to neural data are converging, in this decade, to make viable what was impractical until recently: to intervene on the circuit itself, within the developmental window when it can still be remodeled.
The Krinos project exists to study this possibility in depth — map the literature, build the scientific thesis, converse with researchers in the field. The entry point is autism. If the thesis is right, applicability extends to any condition whose substrate is neural development.
Pablo Borges
I'm a biomedical engineer trained at UFU, with over a decade building technology systems and leading engineering organizations. Currently CTO at Open Earth Foundation, Technology Advisor at Hubio Agro, founder of Izzicupo Borges and LKW, and partner at Hamurabi Apps. Postgraduate in Software Engineering and Industry 4.0.
I'm applying to a Master's program and then to a PhD, to formally research the intersection of AI, prediction, neurodevelopment, neurotechnology and brain circuits.
As the father of an autistic child, the subject interests me not only academically and professionally, but personally. The question Krinos pursues has, for me, a concrete recipient.
The posture
This is a project about intervention in circuits. It is not about judgment of people.
Autistic children, adolescents and adults are whole people, with whole dignity, entirely independent of the state of their neural circuits. Krinos exists to serve these people and their families — not to judge them, classify them, or redefine them.
Some families look at their autistic child and say: he is who he is, this is a way of being, and we don't want to change anything. That position is fully respected. There is nothing in Krinos to offer to those who don't want it.
Other families — and there are autistic adults — live with real difficulties that limit what they can do, and who seek real relief. It is for these people that Krinos pursues the scientific understanding that can open the way to real correction of the circuits — not just compensation of symptoms.
The choice always remains with the person, the family, the physician. Krinos exists so that this choice can be informed by solid science.