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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina (FM) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Uruguai
Alicia Matijasevich Manitto in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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Climate change and natural disasters represent critical challenges for society, affecting the mental health of millions of people. These events can cause post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety, in addition to symptoms of eco-anxiety, understood as a growing concern about the environmental future and the ability to cope with climate change. Vulnerable populations, such as …
People who have been exposed to childhood trauma are at an increased risk of developing cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) in adulthood. The development of these diseases is closely related to lifestyle, with certain 'health risk behaviors' playing a significant role in their onset, such as smoking, an inadequate diet, insufficient sleep, and lack of exercise. The mechanisms by which childhoo…
The emergence of the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus represents a global public health challenge and Brazil is now considered the new epicenter of the pandemic. With the unavailability of treatments and vaccine, the only existing strategies to stop the infection spreading adopted by several Brazilian states were social distancing or lockdown. In addition to the inherent tensions of the pandemi…
The main objective of this thematic project is to deepen the knowledge on early childhood interventions and their effects on the trajectories of cognitive, social and emotional development until the school age. Special emphasis is given to the emergence of mental disorders as the primary phenotypic outcome. Therefore, we will test three early childhood intervention programs with different…
This research line integrates a program of epidemiological surveys on maternal and child health and nutrition in the city of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre state, Western Brazilian Amazon. This is the first birth cohort study in a malaria endemic area - Materno-Infantil no Acre (MINA Study). The central hypothesis is focused on the relations among socioeconomic, intergenerational, and child nutrit…
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Executive Functions (EFs) are a set of cognitive skills that make possible to perform and control mental, attentional, behavioral and emotional processes in the face of conflict or distraction. EFs are part of everyday life and relate to the human capacities of attention, memory, problem solving and self-control. The development of EFs during childhood is associated with maturation of bra…
The Post-Doctor (PD) will participate in the monitoring of the follow-up of the study participants and will have full dedication to the project. The PD will be responsible for the activities for planning face-to-face follow-up assessments, and fieldwork activities. The working plan will include organizing the logistics of fieldwork, supervising data collection and data entry flow on the s…
This project aims to understand the effect of a program designed for the characteristics of our population, based on consolidated North American programs, on maternal care mechanisms based on the Apego Tory, related to the different trajectories of child development. Objective: to evaluate the effect of the home visiting program for young mothers on the construction of maternal care compe…
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Maternal depression includes major nonpsychotic depressive episodes that range from mild to severe and may begin during pregnancy or in the first year after birth. Recently, researchers have demonstrated the negative effects of maternal depression on the development of executive functions and emotional cognition in children during childhood and adolescence. Executive functions is an umbre…
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| 4 / 4 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
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