CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (FMRP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated at the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto from the Universidade de São Paulo (1963) and Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the same institution (1967). Post-doctorate at Harvard Medical School (1969). Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford (1979). Has experience in Pharmacology, focusing on Neuropsicopharmacology, mainly on the following subjects: anxiety, serotonin, periaquedutal gray matter, and animal models of anxiety. From the year 2000 does research in Biological Psychiatry, mainly focused on the neurobiology of panic disorder. Impact by ISI on 17/04/2017: H index 50, ISI, 8094 citations. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Several pieces of evidence, including those originated from our group in Ribeirão Preto in the last 30 years, indicate that typical (glutamate, GABA and serotonin) and atypical (nitric oxide, NO) neurotransmitters are involved in anxiety, mood, psychotic and related motor disorders. More recently the endocannabinoid system was also related to these disorders. The main goal of the present …
Glutamate is well recognized as the main excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system. Its receptors are classified into ionotropic and metabotropic. Whereas 8 subtypes of the former have already bee recognized, ionotropic glutamate receptors are usually divided into NMDA, AMP A and Kainic subtypes. Glutamate activation of NMDA receptors leads to calcium influx, act…
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The main problem in psychiatry diagnostic is that the classification today are solely based on subjective descriptions of symptoms. Phenomenology includes the description of multiple clinical subtypes; but, there is no biological feature that distinguishes one subtype from another. Hyperactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in major depression is one of the most consi…
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