Graduated in Biological Sciences (UNESP), Master in Neurosciences (University of Amsterdam), PhD and Post-Doctorate in Psychobiology (UNIFESP). He is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Psychobiology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Unifesp. Develops research in the area of Behavioral Neuroscience in rodents, with application to the understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders, mainly related to neurodevelopment, such as Autism, Schizophrenia and ADHD. Teaching in undergraduate courses in Biomedicine, Medicine and Speech-Therapy. He advises Scientific Initiation, Master's and Doctoral students and is the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Psychobiology at UNIFESP (Medicine II Concentration Area, CAPES Concept 7). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This study will employ an animal model of adversity in the neonatal period to characterize neurobiological and behavioral changes due to insults during neurodevelopment. Adverse events during critical phases of neurodevelopment can lead to lasting behavioral and neurobiological consequences, e.g., vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disorders. Among these impairments, morphofunctional chang…
Oxytocin is a hormone synthesized in the hypothalamus that acts peripherally, inducing uterine contraction and the milk ejection reflex, and centrally, modulating social and reproductive behaviors. Beneficial effects of intranasal oxytocin have indicated its potential clinical use for numerous mental disorders that exhibit social deficits. However, there are controversies in the literatur…
The identification of the rewarding aspect inherent to some social stimuli and the understanding of individual differences in the processing of these stimuli are important topics for understanding typical and dysfunctional social behaviors, since some clinical disorders such as depression, personality disorders, and autism present with changes in the rewarding values of social interaction…
This study aims to characterize the involvement of the neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin in the long-term effects of stressful events in the neonatal period, a critical period for neural development in rodents. Different stressors applied in this critical period caused significant behavioral changes in rats when tested during adolescence. We rule out the participation of corticostero…
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that results from exposure to a traumatic event, such as, violent crimes, war and natural disasters. There is growing evidence that sleep disruption that occurs following trauma exposure may constitute a specific mechanism involved in the pathophysiology of chronic PTSD. Processes that occur during the sleep that follows trauma m…
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