CV Lattes
Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP (HCFMUSP). Instituto de Psiquiatria Doutor Antonio Carlos Pacheco e Silva (IPq) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated in Medicine from the Catholic University of São Paulo (1972), MA (1982) and Ph.D. (1988) and Associate Professor (1996), Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo. Conducted post doctorate at Case Western Reserve University, USA (1992-1994). He is currently Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine University of São Paulo, Coordinator of the Schizophrenia (PROJESQ) and president of the Center for Research Support (Ceapesq) Institute of Psychiatry, FMUSP. Psychiatrist is a doctor with specialist title by the Brazilian Association of Psychiatry and his areas of research focus in the fields of Schizophrenia and Evidence Based Psychiatry. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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It is estimated that at least 30% of patients taking clozapine do not respond adequately, maintaining high severity of symptoms, especially psychotic symptoms, and such patients are termed resistant to clozapine (CRS). Several clozapine augmentation strategies have been tested for such condition, particularly addition with antipsychotics, but none showed significant superiority over place…
Recent studies estimate that most patients with schizophrenia show significant cognitive impairments compared with healthy people. Cognitive deficits such as attention, memory, and particulary executive functions are the areas heavily damaged in patients with schizophrenia. Such deficits are strong predictors of long-term functional outcomes such as performance in basic activities of dail…
A great number of positive symptoms can be improved with an antipsychotic treatment. However, a subgroup of patients present a predominance of persistent negative symptoms that do not respond to medical treatment, such as blunted affect , emotional and social withdrawal. Evidence has shown that patients with schizophrenia present a soft brain structure alteration that explains the deficit…
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