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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas (ICB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo (ICB-USP). His research explores how the brain and body communicate bidirectionally, with a focus on the vagus nerves role in shaping neural states and its impact on psychiatric disorders, inflammatory conditions, and motivated behavior a theme he previously investigated as a permanent research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Fundamental Health Sciences from ICB-USP, where he also conducted undergraduate research in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics. He completed his Masters and PhD in Pharmacology at the same institution, with visiting research periods at MIT and Yale University (USA). During his postdoctoral training at USP, he examined biomolecular changes in the nervous system in experimental models of stress-related disorders, including a research stay at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (USA), where he later completed a full postdoctoral fellowship investigating bodybrain interactions in the regulation of motivated behavior. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The persistence of anxiety and the deficit in the extinction of fear memory are both phenomena related to the symptoms of disorders associated with stress, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Recently, we have shown that acute restraint stress (2h) in rats induces both late anxiety-like behavior (observed 10 days after stress) and fear extinction impairment. In addition to th…
Stress-related disorders, such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), are recurrent causes of occupational absence in Brazil. Both acute restraint stress and transient elevation of glucocorticoid (GC) levels induce anxiety behaviors as well as dendritic branching within the basolateral complex of the amygdala (BLA) of rodents. The BLA is one fundamental structu…
The consequences of stressful events on human health, especially related to psychiatric disorders, has gained notoriety in recent years due to the increasing number of comorbidities associated to stress registered in large cities. Emotional disorders related to anxiety symptoms are common among the psychiatric patients and have increasing in importance in scientific papers devoted to stre…
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The bidirectional communication between the gastrointestinal tract (GI) and the brain has gained attention as a therapeutic target for psychiatric disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and stress-related disorders. The vagus nerve is a critical component of the autonomic nervous system implicated in the gut-to-brain communication. Subcutaneously vagal stimulation has been increasingly u…
Anxiety-related disorders are common among psychiatric patients and are widely present in studies devoted to stress. In addition to the long-lasting anxiety behavior, impaired extinction of learned fear is associated with the development of post-traumatic stress disorder, one of the most debilitating anxiety-related disorder. Several approaches have been focusing on environmental influenc…
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