I am a Full Professor at the Department of Psychobiology at Universidade Federal de São Paulo. I have a degree in Biomedicine, obtained a Master's degree in Pharmacology from Escola Paulista de Medicina (1987) and a Ph.D. in Psychobiology from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (1990). I spent 3.5 years in Stanford, under Dr. Seymour Levine's supervision, working in the influence of mother-pup relationship on the ontogeny of the HPA axis response to stress. Upon my return to Brazil I followed up on the long-term effects of maternal deprivation on the stress response and how disruptions of mother-infant relationship may represent a risk factor for emotional disorders. I am a Full Professor of Universidade Federal de São Paulo, and I am currently the President of the Habilitation Committee and Coordinator of the MD-PhD Program of Escola Paulista de Medicina. My expertise is in the Neuroscience field, focusing in the development of animal models of resilience and vulnerability to stress-related psychiatric disorders using early life stress. I am past president of the Brazilian Society for Neuroscience and Behavior (SBNeC - 2020-2023) and in 2023 I was elected Vice-president of SBNeC and 2nd. Vice-President of the Brazilian Federation of Societies of BExperimental Biology (FeSBE), and to participate in the Latin-America Regional Committee of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO - LARC). I am a member of the Committee of Partnerships and Collaboration of the World Women in Neuroscience (IBRO) and Alba Network (Federaion of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS).Contact e-mail: deborah.suchecki21@unifesp.br (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Exposure to stress during development alters brain maturation, leading to different behavioural phenotypes. Although adversities in childhood and adolescence increase the risk for stress-related psychiatric disorders (SRPD) such as anxiety, panic, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), there is significant individual variability in the outcomes, indicating the existence of s…
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder caused by a traumatic event and PTSD patients present behavioural, neurochemical and psychobiologic symptoms leading to major consequences in daily life functioning. It is often associated with depression and anxiety and dysregulated cortisol stress response. Moreover, reduced neuropeptide Y (NPY) levels in plasma and cerebrospinal…
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The neonatal period is extremely important for programming physiological and behavioral responses to stress in later stages of development, and a large part of this process depends on the quality of the mother-infant relationship. In rodents, the rupture of this relationship, through maternal deprivation (MD) for 24 h, during the period of hyporesponsiveness to stress, alters the trajecto…
Child abuse is a public health problem worldwide. Due to the lack of records and complaints, mainly because of fear and stigma, the incidence is underestimated, which results in a deficiency of public policies to prevent the event and treat the victims. Child abuse is known to have serious consequences in adulthood, such as cognitive and emotional disorders, problems with social interacti…
Maternal behavior (MB) is essential for the development and survival of puppies. The MB is more intense after birth and gradually decreases with the maturation of the puppies. This behavior is stimulated by hormonal factors (estrogen, progesterone, oxytocin, and prolactin) and mainly by the demand of puppies that emit ultrasonic vocalizations and perform body movements to attract the moth…
Approximately 20 to 30% of individuals exposed to traumatic events develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), strongly suggesting the existence of inherent resilience and vulnerability factors. PTSD patients exhibit dysfunctional secretion of oxytocin (OT) and cortisol. Contextual fear conditioning (CMC)-based animal models of this disorder induce persistent behavioral responses, which…
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Stressors are responsible for generating a set of neuronal, endocrine, autonomic and behavioral responses, coordinated by the central nervous system (CNS). In rodents a number of findings demonstrate that paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD) using the single platform method (SPM) triggers stress response. However, there is a recurrent criticism of these results, questioning whether these c…
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