Mario Francisco Juruena, MD, MSc, Dip CBT, MPhil, PhD Mario Francisco Juruena graduated in Medicine from Pontifical Catholic University,(PUC), Southern Brazil. He did his residency training in psychiatry at Sao Pedro Psychiatric Hospital, and completed interdisciplinary course for specialization in Mental Health School of Public Health of Porto Alegre, Brazil. He received his master degree at the Department of Psychobiology, Federal University of Sao Paulo, and the second in Affective Neuroscience, Universiteit Maastricht, the Netherlands. He got his doctorate (PhD in Psychiatry) from University of London, United Kingdom. He is also a specialist in adult psychiatry in the UK according to the Specialist Training Authority (STA) of the Medical Royal Colleges and General Medical Council (GMC). Juruena completed training in cognitive psychotherapy at Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, Philadelphia-USA. He has published over 100 original research articles, reviews and book chapters, and edited five books. Most of his studies are related to the neurobiology, diagnosis and treatment of affective disorders; and their relationship to stress. He is currently the Associate Editor of BioMed Central (BMC) Psychiatry-UK. He has been invited as a speaker in numerous international conferences such as British Association for Psychopharmacology that awarded him "The Senior Clinical Psychopharmacology Award 2007". He also received the Robert W. Psychopharmacology Kerwin Prize in 2010 from the Royal College of Psychiatrists for the best article published on the subject in the British Journal of Psychiatry. He was professor at PUC-RS,Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, the head of the Stress and Affective Disorders Programme and professor doctor at University of Sao Paulo. Currently he is Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences, Kings College London and Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Posttraumatic stress disorder is triggered by an external event that threatening individual physical integrity, leading to characteristics symptoms of reviviscence, avoidance/numbing and hyperarousal. Despite the external adverse event, some predisposing factors are present presupposing multicausality. Once PTSD is installed, it has chronic features leading to important functional impairm…
The stressful life events have been associated with a variety of physical and mental disorders. Depression and Mood Disorders are complex frames that constitute a challenge for public health because of the high rates of recurrence and mortality being the most disabling disorders in public health. Among the factors associated with depression in adulthood, are exposure to stressors in child…
Increasing evidence indicates that abandonment, neglect and abuse in childhood and adolescence are risk factors for psychiatric disorders. Studies in both animals and humans suggest that stress in the early stages of development may induce persistent changes in the ability of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) in response to stress in adult life leading to greater susceptibility to …
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People who have been exposed to early-life stress (ELS) may be more vulnerable to psychopathologies, especially to depression. Depression is a recurrent, chronic and heterogeneous psychiatric disorder which causes several impairments in the individual's life. Atypical depression use to be related to life-time trauma exposure, when compared to other subtypes of depression. Besides, atypica…
The interest in understanding the mechanisms responsible for the association between stress and cognitive symptoms of depression has increased significantly. Chronic exposure to stress, and consequently elevated levels of corticosteroids, results in changes in cognitive processes similar to those observed in depression. Evidence suggests that adverse experiences early in life combined wit…
The main problem in psychiatry diagnostic is that the classification today are solely based on subjective descriptions of symptoms. Phenomenology includes the description of multiple clinical subtypes; but, there is no biological feature that distinguishes one subtype from another. Hyperactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in major depression is one of the most consi…
The perinatal period is a unique and highly sensitive time window for the developing brain. Exposure to adversities during the early postnatal period is also an important contributing factor for the risk to develop anxiety-related disorders. These disorders are characterized by impaired abilities to use contextual information (safety cues) in a situation of potential threat and an impaire…
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