I hold a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Presbyterian Mackenzie University. During my undergraduate studies, I was awarded a Scientific Initiation Scholarship by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) for the project titled "The Relationship Between Postpartum Depression Symptoms and Neural Processing of Maternal Touch in 6-Month-Old Infants." I received the Young Researcher Award at the BRAIN 2022 conference.Currently, I am a researcher at the Mackenzie Center for Research on Childhood and Adolescence, with experience in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, focusing on topics such as postpartum depression, affective touch, early childhood, and fNIRS.I am a Master's student in Human Development Sciences at Presbyterian Mackenzie University, with a FAPESP-funded research project titled "The Predictive Role of Maternal Sensitivity in Infants Neural Response to Maternal Touch." (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Maternal attunement to the infants' emotional needs affects mothers' use of touching behaviors during mother-infant interactions (Malphurs et al., 1996; Mantis et al., 2019). Furthermore, maternal touch appears to modulate infants' physiological responses to affective touch (Aguirre et al., 2019). Evidence from our group showed associations between maternal sensitivity at 7 months on infa…
Postpartum depression, when left untreated, can have negative consequences on the mother-baby relationship and the baby's later development. For example, mothers may become less sensitive to their baby's emotional needs, touch their baby less often, or touch more negatively. During childhood, touch is an important communication channel in the mother-baby relationship, mainly due to the ro…
Touch is one of the main forms of communication that babies establish with the world, especially during the mother-baby relationship. But, there are different tactiles stimuli and, therefore, diverse impacts on the development during the first year of life. The quality of this tactile stimuli can be expressed by maternal sensitivity. However, the literature is still scarce on this topic. …
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