Graduated in Medicine from Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo (1990), master's in Psychiatry from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2001) and doctorate in Psychiatry from Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2005), with one year fellowship at Brown University's Mood Disorders research department, RI-USA. Afiliate Professor at the department of psychiatry at Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of Sao Paulo. Professor of Psychiatry at Faculdade Israelita de Ciências da Saude Albert Einstein between January of 2020 and April 2022. Has experience in psychiatry and psychotherapy, acting on the following subjects: depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and PTSD. (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…
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic psychiatric disease that has an 11% prevalence in Brazil's population, and it can have an important impact on the person's quality of life. The disease develops after facing a trauma that has a significant psychological impact on the patient, and it depends on several risk factors that can be related to the trauma (the type of trauma and …
Data from Forum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública in 2018 showed 180 cases of sexual abuse per day, mainly in women. Unfortunately, not all women sick for health services after the episode and between 30-50% develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a consequence of this kind of violence. Besides, a significant number of patients abandon the treatment for PTSD after rape and the liter…
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