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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Hospital Universitário (HU) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Medicina from Universidade de São Paulo (1987) and ph.d. at Psiquiatria Pelo Institute Of Psychiatry from University of London (1995). Has experience in Medicine, focusing on Psychiatry, acting on the following subjects: spect, esquizofrenia, serotonina, antipsicóticos and dopamina. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a condition with high prevalence and morbidity worldwide. Treatments have limited efficacy and are curbed by adverse effects (Pharmacotherapy) or availability and costs (psychotherapy). Thus, developing novel interventions is tremendously relevant and can bring major gains in psychiatric care. Non-Implantable Neuromodulatory (NIN) approaches such as tran…
As in others years, research projects carried out at the Institute of Psychiatry of the Hospital das Clínicas of FMUSP (IPq-HCFMUSP) with support by FAPESP have generated institutional technical reserve funds (RTI), whose efforts are discussed among our leaderships researchers every year to ensure investments in infrastructure of strategic relevance for the continuity of our research.Thi…
The search for the biological substrate of neuropsychiatric disorders is a pre-requisite for the development of more efficacious therapies and mainly of preventive strategies by means of early diagnosis. The experimental attempts to identify specific markers for the different diseases remain unsuccessful to date. At least partially, these negative results derive from a probable lack of sp…
Prevention of depressive disorders in the elderly: in two Basic Health Units in the low income region of Butanta, in Sao Paulo city, 2,700 individuals 60 years and older, will be screened for the presence of depressive symptoms and/or clinically significant anxiety (CES-D). The subjects selected will be assessed to identify those with sub-threshold symptom levels (of depression and/or anx…
This project aims to strengthen the interaction between two research groups Consolidated with complementary experience in the field of neuroimaging research, implementing a project to study two different disorders: schizophrenia and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder- ADHD. The study with ADHD patients will investigate dysfunctions in specific brain areas involved in the selection o…
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Depressed patients have volumetric reductions of the hippocampus, amygdala, prefrontal, Anterior Cingulate Cortices (ACC), and basal ganglia. Moreover, a metabolic decrease in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) associated with increased activity in the cingulate cortex and limbic regions is observed. The white matter involved in implicit emotional regulation and reward processing neur…
Aging is a crucial demographic process in our society since it affects the individuals' daily living. Many changes may be observed in the brains of elderly subjects, even among those without dementia symptoms. Those alterations may include amyloid deposition, a classic biomarker of Alzheimer's disease which may also be noted in a fraction of cognitively normal elderlies, and functional co…
Changes in cognition are among the most remarkable in the process of aging and are observed both in cases of disease, as in Disease Alzheimer's, as in healthy aging. There are many studies dealing with this theme, however, no published study yet has sought to relate the cognitive aging with the reduction in hemispheric asymmetry. The cerebral hemispheres are asymmetrical, functionally and…
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Population aging is an enduring demographic change. It represents a challenge because it is related to higher prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases; moreover, normal aging is associated with cognitive decline. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides the opportunity to study the brain and the resting-state fMRI has been studied intensively due to its feasibility and potent…
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