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Vanessa Rocha-Rego

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Araujo C, Mota B, Campagnoli R, Rocha-Rego V, Volchan E, Souza G
Psicol Reflex Crit . 2022 Aug; 35(1):25. PMID: 35913547
Loneliness has emerged as a public health concern. Previous research has reported its deleterious effects on physical and mental health; however, some specific psychophysiological mechanisms in healthy adults remain to...
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Grichtchouk O, Oliveira J, Campagnoli R, Franklin C, Correa M, Pereira M, et al.
Front Psychol . 2022 Apr; 13:817699. PMID: 35465505
Proximity and interpersonal contact are prominent components of social connection. Giving affective touch to others is fundamental for human bonding. This brief report presents preliminary results from a pilot study....
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Norte C, Volchan E, Vila J, Mata J, Arbol J, Mendlowicz M, et al.
Front Psychol . 2019 Jun; 10:1213. PMID: 31178810
Among defensive behaviors, tonic immobility (TI) is considered the last defensive resort when life is at extreme risk. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the main psychiatric consequence resulting from exposure...
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Silva H, Campagnoli R, Mota B, Araujo C, Alvares R, Mocaiber I, et al.
Front Psychol . 2017 Jul; 8:1136. PMID: 28740473
Responding to pro-social cues plays an important adaptive role in humans. Our aims were (i) to create a catalog of bonding and matched-control pictures to compare the emotional reports of...
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McCabe C, Rocha-Rego V
PLoS One . 2016 Nov; 11(11):e0165295. PMID: 27870866
Background: Dysfunctional neural responses to appetitive and aversive stimuli have been investigated as possible biomarkers for psychiatric disorders. However it is not clear to what degree these are separate processes...
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Rocha-Rego V, Pereira M, Oliveira L, Mendlowicz M, Fiszman A, Marques-Portella C, et al.
PLoS One . 2012 Sep; 7(8):e42560. PMID: 22952599
Background: Studies addressing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have demonstrated that PTSD patients exhibit structural abnormalities in brain regions that relate to stress regulation and fear responses, such as the hippocampus,...
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Portugal L, Garcia Pereira M, Alves R, Tavares G, Lobo I, Rocha-Rego V, et al.
Braz J Psychiatry . 2012 Mar; 34(1):60-5. PMID: 22392390
Objective: Tonic immobility is a defensive reaction occurring under extreme life threats. Patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reporting peritraumatic tonic immobility show the most severe symptoms and a poorer...
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Anomal R, Rocha-Rego V, Franca J
Front Neuroanat . 2011 Nov; 5:56. PMID: 22069381
In small-brained mammals, such as opossums, the cortex is organized in fewer sensory and motor areas than in mammals endowed with larger cortical sheets. The presence of multimodal fields, involved...
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Volchan E, Souza G, Franklin C, Norte C, Rocha-Rego V, Oliveira J, et al.
Biol Psychol . 2011 Jun; 88(1):13-9. PMID: 21693167
Tonic immobility, characterized by profound motor inhibition, is elicited under inescapable threat in many species. To fully support the existence of tonic immobility in humans, our aim was to elicit...
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Lima A, Fiszman A, Marques-Portella C, Mendlowicz M, Coutinho E, Maia D, et al.
J Psychiatr Res . 2009 Oct; 44(4):224-8. PMID: 19793589
Tonic immobility is the last defense reaction to entrapment by a predator. In humans, peritraumatic tonic immobility was correlated with PTSD severity and poor response to treatment. This study compared...