Graduated in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Paraná (1995), Master's degree in Neurosciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1998) and Doctorate in Medicine: Medical Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2001), Post-Doctorate at Yale University. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM) - Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). She was Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Psychiatry and Medical Psychology at EPM-UNIFESP from 2013 to 2022. She has experience in the area of #8203;#8203;Structural Neuroimaging data processing. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) - which includes physical/sexual abuse, neglect or parental mental illness - confer risk for psychiatric dysfunction not only to those directly exposed, but also to the next generation. However, mechanisms underlying these ACE-related intergenerational effects are unclear, significantly limiting a unique prevention opportunity. Our study aims to examin…
A large literature has documented the deleterious effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on development in children and adolescents, with long-term consequences, which often persist in adulthood, including mood disorders, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders. In 2016, according to the office of the Administration for Children & Families, a division of the U.S. Department of He…
The team of researches draws on the scholarly advances made across different disciplines to propose a cross-national multi-disciplinary collaborative approach to generate new knowledge on the incidence and effects of toxic stress on neurodevelopmental, cognitive, and socioemotional outcomes in children and adolescents in Brazil and the United States. Our team will examine the links betwee…
Posttraumatic stress disorder is triggered by an external event that threatening individual physical integrity, leading to characteristics symptoms of reviviscence, avoidance/numbing and hyperarousal. Despite the external adverse event, some predisposing factors are present presupposing multicausality. Once PTSD is installed, it has chronic features leading to important functional impairm…
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (AIE) occur when a child is exposed to and experiences stressful situations during their development, such as physical or emotional neglect, physical and emotional abuse, maltreatment, exposure to serious mental health problems and other situations such as food insecurity. Studies highlight that ACEs experienced by the mother can be transmitted to the next ge…
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are characterized by stressful situations that include physical or emotional neglect, physical and emotional abuse, maltreatment, parental mental illness, food insecurity, among others. Adverse experiences experienced by the mother can be transmitted to the next generation, the so-called intergenerational transmission of trauma. This transmission can o…
Adverse childhood events (ACEs) include factors such as emotional and physical abuse, multiple episodes of violence and sexual abuse, poverty, and parental mental health. Such exposure can result in harm to the development of children and adolescents, such as neurodevelopment, increasing the risk of developing depressive and anxiety disorders throughout life. There is emerging evidence su…
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(Only some records are available in English at this moment)
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