CV Lattes
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Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Professor of psychiatry at the Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP). PhD and visiting Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN, Kings College London). Scientific Director of the National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry (INCT-CNPq, FAPESP, ERC). Leads the The Brazilian High Risk Neurodevelopment Cohort, a 11-year cohort of 2,500 youth investigating trajectories of mental disorders. Established clinical teams (schizophrenia and psychosis high-risk) and an integrative neuroscience lab that works synergistically in a multi-staging and multimodal research approach. He has authored more than 300 scientific publications and ranked among the top researches (A-1) in Brazil. President of Instituto AmeSuaMente (LoveYourMid Institute) focused in prevention of mental disorders with several actions in school mental health and advocacy. Was awarded with the Legislative Merit Medal the highest honour bestowed by the Brazilian Congress to pay tribute to his work implementing policies to improve the rights and destigmatizing people with mental disorders. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Psychiatric disorders are among the main causes of socio-occupational disability in western countries and their impact grows every year. Most of these psychiatric disorders begin in childhood or adolescence, with about one in ten children worldwide diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder. However, little investment in research is devoted to the study of mental disorders in this age group. V…
Psychiatric disorders are among the main causes of socio-occupational disability in western countries and their impact grows every year. Most of these psychiatric disorders begin in childhood or adolescence, with about one in ten children worldwide diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder. However, little investment in research is devoted to the study of mental disorders in this age group. V…
There has been a significant increase in mental distress among young people in recent years, with mental disorders being the leading medical cause of disability among all medical conditions in the second and third decades of life. Although there is sufficient evidence that mental disorders have early onset, they are often detected only in later stages due to lack of awareness, stigma, and…
The investiqation of individuais during their first-episode psychosis (FEP) before the proqression of the disorder and particularly before treatment with antipsychotic medications is helpful for understanding the complexity of schizophrenia. Several studies suggested that gene expressron in blood could serve as a diagnosis tool for brain-related diseases. Considering that schizophrenia is…
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) are neurodevelopmental illnesses that cause an enormous burden of suffering, high morbidity and mortality rates. Only preventive strategies that include promotion of mental health, identification of risk factors across the life cycle, and appropriate early interventions may reduce these rates. This project focuses in primary, secondary, and tertiary…
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Polysomnographic studies involving subjects with schizophrenia have reported the continuity of sleep disturbances, decreased slow-wave sleep, a reduction in the latency of REM sleep, increased the percentage of REM sleep and reducing the amount of NREM sleep in minutes. As for the polysomnographic findings in TB, the main feature seems to be the reduction of total sleep time. The atypical…
Neuroimaging studies suggest that structural changes and connectivity are observed before the onset of symptoms of schizophrenia and progress with disease progression. Has been well established that patients with schizophrenia have reduced volume of the hippocampus, temporal cortex, frontal and parietal abnormalities and connectivity between these regions. recent studies in individuals wi…
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Schizophrenia is the most severe psychotic disorder in which environmental and genetic factors act throughout neurodevelopment causing changes in brain connectivity. Although psychotic experiences (PE) are highly prevalent during childhood, it is not known the relationship of PE and brain connectivity during the neurodevelopment. Objective: To investigate how the changes of brain network …
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