graduate at Ciências Biológicas Modalidade Médica from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2001), master's at Pharmacology from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2004) and ph.d. at Pharmacology from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2008). Has experience in Pharmacology, focusing on Psyochopharmacology, acting on the following subjects: anxiety, schizophrenia, emotional memory (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Recently much attention has been focused on the role of neurodevelopment in schizophrenia. It is believed that the most evident clinical manifestation of schizophrenia (positive symptoms), reflecting the striatal hyperdopaminergic state, is the final result of changes that emerge from the interaction between genetic, environmental and neural factors related to life-long development. Pharm…
Schizophrenia theories are beginning to be integrated through the growing evidence that the developmental risk factors, the genetic predisposition and the environmental factors which increase risk of schizophrenia appear to act by facilitating the excess of striatal dopamine that are the responsible for increased salience being given to insignificant events and thoughts, and that this und…
Recently much attention has been focused on the role of neurodevelopment in schizophrenia. It is believed that the manifestation of schizophrenia, reflecting the striatal hiperdopaminérgico state, is the end result of changes that emerge from the interaction between genetic and environmental factors and related to neural development throughout life. Pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia based …
Our group recently described that the SHR strain (spontaneouly hipertensive rats) shows a deficit in the task of contextual fear conditioning (a model for the study of emotional processing), which is specifically reversed by antipsychotics (drugs used in the treatment of schizophrenia) and augmented by manipulations related to worsening schizophrenia. Furthermore, this strain has a defici…
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