Research Lines
The program relies on 20 lines of research, divided into two areas of concentration: Neurology (17163) and Neurosciences (17163), as described below:
Area | Research lines | Description | Projects | Advisor |
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| Evaluation of neuronal damage in vivo by imaging methods
| Studies that use the various methods of neuroimaging to investigate neuronal damage in different neurological and psychiatric disorders.
| Evaluation of neuronal damage in vivo by imaging methods |
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N | Headache and pain
| Research line developed for at least 15 years addressing therapeutic, epidemiological, and clinical aspects of headaches.
| Clinical, epidemiological, and therapeutic aspects of pain |
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N | Cerebrovascular diseases
| This line of research lists studies addressing the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, and therapeutic strategies for their rehabilitation.
| Stroke and sleep breathing disorders Therapeutic Neuroradiology in Cerebrovascular Diseases Neurosonology for cerebrovascular diseases National Stroke Research Network (RNPAVC) Study on the advanced control of hypertension and thrombolysis in stroke Head Position in Stroke Trial REAVER: registration of stroke in Ribeirão Preto Diagnosis, characterization, and prognosis of oropharyngeal dysphagia in stroke patients
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N | Neurodegenerative disorders
| This line of research lists studies involving the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. | Clinical and pathophysiological aspects of movement disorders and Behavioral Neurology
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N | Neuromuscular disorders | Experimental and clinical studies. Evaluation of peripheral nerves by electron and optical microscopy with semithin sections; evaluation of dissociated fibers; Immunopathology, electrophysiology, genetic and molecular characterization of peripheral neuropathies. | Clinical and neurophysiological aspects of leprosy neuropathy Genotype-phenotype correlation in Hereditary neuropathies Clinical, nosological, and pathophysiological aspects of neuropathies/neuronopathies |
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N | Neurological emergencies | This line of research lists studies related to the diagnosis and treatment of neurological emergencies
| Ribeirão Preto traumatic brain injury record: RETER
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N | Clinical Epileptology | This line of research lists studies addressing the diagnosis and the therapeutic strategies (pharmacological, surgical, use of diets, palliative surgical methods) in patients with epilepsy and comorbidities associated with the epileptic condition. | Dysfunction and degeneration of limbic circuitry and its implications on epileptogenesis and cognitive and psychiatric disorders associated with human temporal lobe epilepsy Temporal lobe epilepsy and psychiatric comorbidities: neuropathological and molecular characterization of human tissue and new intervention strategies in animal models Electroencephalography in the developing brain and epileptic syndromes Continuous monitoring by video-EEG in the diagnosis and treatment of refractory epileptic malaise Pharmacological and surgical treatment of epilepsies Neuropathological and Neuroimaging substrates associated with pharmacoresistant epilepsy Invasive neurophysiological evaluation in pharmacoresistant epilepsies
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NCC | Neural hodology and Neuropharmacology of Defense behavior | This line of research lists studies on anatomical, pathophysiological, neurochemical and pharmacological aspects related to behavior and defense |
Involvement of opioid and endocannabinoid receptors of the black substance in the modulation of the activity of the GABAergic nigrotectal pathway during the organization of the elicited defense behavior by rodents confronted with venomous snakes Study of the involvement of neural networks of the dorsal nucleus of the Raphe and serotonergic neurotransmission in the locus coeruleus in antinociceptive processes induced by guided escape reactions evoked by chemical stimulation of the medial hypothalamus
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N | Infection of the nervous system | Study of neurological manifestations of infectious and parasitic diseases, complications, epidemiology, therapy, and side effects of drugs in man. | Infection of the nervous system
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NCC | Neurobiology | Studies on morphological, physiological and pharmacological aspects of aversive behavior. Studies on neural plasticity.
| Normal and pathological brain plasticity Neuroimmunoendocrine alterations in experimental sepsis Neural mechanisms and blood pressure regulation
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NCC | Neurobiology of pain | This line of research lists studies on anatomical, pathophysiological, neurochemical, and pharmacological aspects related to pain.
| Pathophysiological, morphological, and pharmacological aspects of pain Clinical, epidemiological and therapeutic aspects of pain
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NCC | Neurobiology of cerebrovascular diseases
| This line of research addresses the pathophysiological aspects of cerebrovascular diseases using the clinical and experimental approach | Technological development in therapeutic Neuroradiology REAVER: registration of stroke in Ribeirão Preto Experimental models of cerebrovascular diseases Diagnosis, characterization, and prognosis of oropharyngeal dysphagia in stroke patients Disorders of the perception of verticality
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NCC | Neurobiology of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders | This line of research lists studies on anatomical, genetic, pathophysiological, neurochemical, and pharmacological aspects related to neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. | CX3CR1+/GFP mice: MPTP, 6-OHDA intoxication and induction of dyskinesia by Levodopa treatment. Implementation of Academic Cooperation Network for experimental and preclinical study focusing on Parkinson’s disease. Cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the role of atypical neurotransmitters in neuropsychiatric disorders Role of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus pathway – medial prefrontal cortex of mice submitted to psychosis models Clinical and pathophysiological aspects of movement disorders and Behavioral Neurology
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NNC | Neurobiology of Neuromuscular Disorders | This line of research lists studies on the anatomical, genetic, pathophysiological, neurochemical, and pharmacological aspects related to neuromuscular disorders.
| Nosological aspects of small fiber neuropathies Exercise intolerance: clinical and pathophysiological aspects Myopathies: Nosology, clinical, and pathophysiological aspects Clinical, biochemical, and molecular characterization of primary and secondary mitochondrial dysfunctions Molecular biology of neuropathies, paraparesis, and hereditary ataxias Pathophysiological aspects of neuropathies/neuronopathies
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NCC | Neurobiology of epilepsies | This line of research lists studies on anatomical, genetic, pathophysiological, neurochemical, and pharmacological aspects related to epileptic syndromes and their comorbidities. The use of experimental models of these syndromes is emphasized in this line of research. | Dysfunction and degeneration of the limbic circuitry and its implications on epileptogenesis and the cognitive and psychiatric disorders associated with human temporal lobe epilepsy. (CNPq/Ms/DECIT 27/2014, Process 466995/2014-8) Temporal lobe epilepsy and psychiatric comorbidities: neuropathological and molecular characterization of human tissue and new intervention strategies in animal models Neurobiology of epilepsy: behavioral, molecular, and Computational Analysis Neuropathological and Neuroimaging substrates associated with pharmacoresistant epilepsy
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NCC | Neurobiology of normal and pathological child development |
This line of research lists studies related to ontogenetic, physiological, and pathophysiological aspects related to Child Development.
| Study of performance and functional capacity of children and adolescents with neurological alterations Functional MRI and cognition
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NCC | Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychopharmacology and Translational Neurosciences | This line focuses on the investigation of the neural substrate of psychiatric disorders, particularly schizophrenia, psychiatric disorders associated with epilepsy, and psychiatric disorders secondary to the use of psychoactive substances
| Schizophrenia and other psychoses: social and biological factors A translational approach to the study of cannabidiol: a substance with a broad spectrum of action in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders Neuropharmacology of psychiatric diseases |
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NCC | Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases of the nervous system | This line of research lists studies related to the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of inflammatory and autoimmune diseases of the nervous system |
Antibodies in immune-mediated diseases of the nervous system
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N | Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of sleep disorders | This line of research lists studies addressing the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders |
Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of sleep disorders |
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N | Sleep disorders | Studies on the clinical and electrophysiological aspects of normal and pathological sleep.
| Clinical and laboratory evaluation of restless legs syndrome Therapeutic approaches in sleep disorders Sleep in Parkinson’s disease Obstructive sleep disorders Complementary evaluation in Sleep Medicine Polysomnographic evaluation of respiratory disorders in the neonatal period |
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