CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo in 1972; master of Neurology, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo in 1985; doctorate in Neurology, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo in 1990; free-teaching in the Neurology Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo in 2005, Professor of the Discipline of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo since March 2007; Technical Director Department of Health, Division of Functional Neurosurgery at the Institute of Psychiatry of the Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo from 1999 to 2004, Technical Director of the Division of Functional Neurosurgery at the Institute of Psychiatry of the Hospital of the Faculty of Medicine University of Sao Paulo since 2004. Has experience in the field of medicine, with emphasis on Neurosurgery, acting mainly on the following themes: pain, abnormal movements, behavioral abnormalities, epilepsy, spasticity, neurooncology, abnormalities of the spine, injuries of the pituitary gland, neurotraumatology, radiosurgery, brachytherapy and functional stereotactic neurosurgery . (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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It is known that 40% of the population has chronic pain and in some specific populations can reach 60% as cancer patients. Such patients often require many returns to get adequate medication and proper management of pain. This in turn leads to a growing coming to the clinic and the need for quick access to medical records and consultation of information above. The objective is thus the ai…
The spinal route is considered as an option for further treatment on neuropathic pain refractory to patients who have not achieved adequate pain relief with other treatments, as well as those with sufficient analgesia, but high doses of opioids, either orally or parenteral, or have unacceptable side effects. Increasing evidence suggests that neuropathic pain, chronic use of opioids, condi…
Despite of the classical motor symptoms, Parkinson's patients can exhibit cognitive deficits. Some authors have been suggesting that the basal ganglia could also play a non-motor function and this role could be related to a non-spatial learning and related to a memory processes. However, other authors have been indicating that memory can be dissociated in striatum-dependent and / or hippo…
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