Márcio Antonini Bernik

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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

bachelor's at Medicina from Universidade de São Paulo (1984) and doctorate at Psychiatry from Universidade de São Paulo (1995). Has experience in Medicine, acting on the following subjects: ansiedade, transtorno de pânico, transtorno obsessivo compulsivo, alcoolismo and fobia social. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)

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Background: Several studies point to increased inflammatory activity in a significant portion of patients with major depression and anxiety disorders. On the other hand, there is evidence that the disorders as defined in current diagnostic manuals may not accurately describe the depressive-anxious symptom cluster associated with systemic inflammation. Additionally, the measurement of plas…
Accuracy of retinal image analysis by artificial intelligence in detecting depressive and anxiety syndrome associated with systemic inflammation, AP.R

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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a chronic and disabling condition associated with a reduced quality of life and psychosocial impairment. Despite its social and medical relevance, little is known about GAD's pathogenesis and physiological mechanisms involved in its treatment. While classical theories which suggest the involvement of abnormalities in the mechanisms of gama-amino butir…
Evaluation of physiological factors related to psychotherapy clinical response in Generalized Anxiety Disorder patients, AP.R
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Panic attacks are represented by a different periods in which there is the sudden beginning of internal apprehension, fear or terror, frequently associated with feelings of imminent catastrophe, diagnosed in approximately 10% of population. The panic disorder is an anxiety crisis that is characterized by the recurrence of panic attacks: sudden illness of uneasiness and sensation of danger…
The physical activity as exposure therapy to interoceptive stimulatons in patients with panic disorders respiratory subtype and fear of hipocondriac agoraphobic, AP.R
Research on the induction of symptoms in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder remitted on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors trough acute tryptophan depletion, AP.R

Scholarships in Brazil

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This study aims at evaluating changes in benzodiazepines patterns of use in the population living in the area surrounding the HC-FMUSP complex in the last thirty years. Comparable data from three studies: Prof. Tancredi's, ECA-SP e Megacity-SP, will be used in this comparison.
Time changes in patterns of benzodiazepine tranquilizers use in the general population: a trend study from the seventies to this century., BP.IC

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6 / 3	Completed research grants
4 / 1	Completed scholarships in Brazil
11 / 5	All research grants and scholarships

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