Publications
Publications
Akegbe, E., Mesquita, N., Cabral, C., Pereira, E., Fernandes, L., do Carmo, A., Tomé, R., Pinheiro, D., Pinheiro-Costa, J., Rosa, A. M., & Campos, E. J. (2025). In vitro antifungal effect of selected essential oils against clinical isolates causing fungal keratitis: A preliminary pharmacological evaluation. Preprints, 2025, 4. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202510.0240.v1
Aprile F, Simões M, Henriques J, Carvalho P, Castelo-Branco M, Sel A, Ribeiro MJ. The Heartbeat-Evoked Potential in Young and Older Adults During Attention Orienting. Psychophysiology. 2025 Apr;62(4):e70057. doi: 10.1111/psyp.70057. PMID: 40237106.
Araújo A, Duarte IC, Sousa T, Meneses S, Pereira AT, Robbins T, Macedo A, Castelo-Branco M. "Actor-critic" dichotomous hyperactivation and hypoconnectivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Neuroimage Clin. 2025;45:103729. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103729. Epub 2024 Dec 31. PMID: 39787803; PMCID: PMC11762915.
Araujo-Castro, M., García-Centeno, R., González, L., Nobre, E. L., de Griné Severino, M., Goi, J., Pérez Pena, M. M., Menéndez Torre, E., Lozano Aida, C., Novoa-Testa, I., Cordido, F., Sánchón, R., Guerrero-Pérez, F., Oliva Rodríguez, R., Rodríguez-Jiménez, B., Ollero García, M. D., Irigaray Echarri, A., Simó-Servat, A., Moure Rodríguez, M. D., Novo-Rodríguez, C., Calatayud, M., … Biagetti, B. (2025). Prevalence and evolution of hypertension in a large Iberian cohort of patients with acromegaly. Pituitary, 28, 119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11102-025-01586-1
Assuncão, G., Castelo‑Branco, M., & Menezes, P. (2025). Self‑Emotion‑Mediated Exploration in Artificial Intelligence Mirrors: Findings from Cognitive Psychology. AI, 6(9), 220. https://doi.org/10.3390/ai6090220
Arnaut, L. G., Schaberle, F. A., Sereno, J., & Gomes-da-Silva, L. C. (2025). Flash Photodynamic Therapy – How the Saturation of Photosensitizer Absorption Enables Selective and Deeper Tumor Treatments. Advanced Science, e13199. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202513199
Barbosa M, Paneque M, Fontoura Dias S, Júlio F, Sequeiros J, Sousa L, Clarke A, Metcalfe A, Sales CMD, Mendes Á. Addressing family communication in genetic counseling: A scoping review of process studies. J Genet Couns. 2025 Aug;34(4):e70067. doi: 10.1002/jgc4.70067. PMID: 40801425; PMCID: PMC12345395.
Basso, J., Sereno, J., Matos, A. M., Oliveira, R., Ramos, M. L., Castelo-Branco, M., Fortuna, A., Vitorino, R., & Cardoso, C. (2026). Straight to the core: Intratumoral delivery of pitavastatin and miR-338–5p through lipid nanoparticles inhibits glioblastoma growth. Nano Today, 67, 102954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nantod.2025.102954
Biagetti B, Marques P, Ferrer R, Cardoso LM, Moreno EV, Fajardo-Montañana C, Gonzalez-Fernandez L, Pérez Pena MM, García-Centeno R, Lozano-Aida C, Novoa-Testa I, Pascual-Corrales E, Sánchón R, Guerrero-Pérez F, Rodríguez RO, Jiménez BR, Ollero García MD, Echarri AI, Simó-Servat A, Moure Rodríguez MD, Calatayud M, Villar-Taibo R, Tenorio-Jimenéz C, Novo-Rodríguez C, Molero IG, Iglesias P, Blanco C, Vidal-Ostos De Lara F, Aulinas A, Asla Roca Q, Paja M, Abellán Galiana P, Cordido F, Menéndez Torre E, Cámara R, Sarria-Estrada S, Aznar Rodríguez S, Lamas C, Alvarez-Escola C, Bernabéu I, Hanzu F, Marazuela M, Puig-Domingo M, Araujo-Castro M. Growth Hormone Assay-Adjusted Standardization Reveals Distinct Clinical Phenotypes in Acromegaly. Endocr Pract. 2025 Oct 14:S1530-891X(25)01254-6. doi: 10.1016/j.eprac.2025.10.006. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41101706.
Blanquet, L.; Serra, D.; Marrinhas, C.; Almeida, A. Exploring Gut Microbiota-Targeted Therapies for Canine Idiopathic Epilepsy. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2025, 26, 1742. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms26041742
Buzhanskyy, A., Duarte, I.C., Patto, A.V. et al. Neuroimage Signature in Post-Stroke Pain: A Systematic Review. Curr Pain Headache Rep 29, 43 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-024-01339-y
Candeias C, Gama J, Rodrigues M, Meirinho S, Falcão A, Castelo-Branco M, Alves G. Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing to Older Patients Admitted to Units for Integrated Continuous Care: Application of STOPP/START Criteria. J Clin Med. 2025 Apr 22;14(9):2861. doi: 10.3390/jcm14092861. PMID: 40363893; PMCID: PMC12072715.
Caranova M, Soares JF, Pereira DJ, Lima AC, Sousa L, Batista S, Castelo-Branco M, Duarte JV. Longitudinal Identification of Pre-Lesional Tissue in Multiple Sclerosis With Advanced Diffusion MRI. J Neuroimaging. 2025 Jan-Feb;35(1):e70022. doi: 10.1111/jon.70022. PMID: 39937068.
Carrasco M, Guzman L, Olloquequi J, Cano A, Fortuna A, Vazquez-Carrera M, Verdaguer E, Auladell C, Ettcheto M, Camins A. Licochalcone A prevents cognitive decline in a lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation mice model. Mol Med. 2025 Feb 11;31(1):54. doi: 10.1186/s10020-025-01106-8. PMID: 39930360; PMCID: PMC11812219.
Castanheira S, Gomes CV, Bicker J, Fortuna A. Novel mechanisms underlying rapid-acting antidepressants: ketamine-like compounds, neurosteroid GABAkines, and psychedelics. Drug Discov Today. 2025 May 2:104371. doi: 10.1016/j.drudis.2025.104371. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40320133.
Castelo-Branco, M. (2025, Setembro 30). The conundrum of neuronal direction selectivity in the visual ventral stream. Journal of Neurophysiology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00255.2025
Correia L., Silva M., Castro A., Mendes P., Alves B., Ferreira C., & Rocha T. (2025). Expert perspectives on the use of safinamide for Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, e240228. https://doi.org/10.57264/cer-2024-0228
Correia-Rodrigues Â, Ribeiro-Rodrigues T, Gonçalves L, Almeida JP, Ferreira MJ, Girao H. From pathophysiology to treatment in transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis. Trends Mol Med. 2025 Jul 28:S1471-4914(25)00168-6. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2025.07.002. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40731211.
Cravo MI, Bernardes R, Castelo-Branco M. Joint contribution of adaptation and neuronal population recruitment to response level in visual area MT: a computational model. Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 10;15(1):24964. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-07699-8. PMID: 40640205; PMCID: PMC12246228.
d'Almeida OC, Sampaio JM, Ferreira S, Silva ED, Castelo-Branco M. Long term adult visual plasticity after the developmental critical period in genetically determined peripheral visual loss. Heliyon. 2025 Jan 15;11(4):e41970. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e41970. PMID: 40028558; PMCID: PMC11867287.
de Boer L, Jiskoot LC, Seelaar H, van Swieten JC, Ibanez A, Maito M, Fittipaldi S, De Houwer JFH, Swartenbroekx T, Boesjes PA, Convery RS, Ferry-Bolder E, Foster P, Bouzigues A, Chisman-Russell L, van den Berg E, Papma J, Franzen S, Bourdage R, Rowe JB, Borroni B, Galimberti D, Tiraboschi P, Masellis M, Finger E, Laforce R, Graff C, Gerhard A, Sanchez-Valle R, Mendonça A, Moreno F, Synofzik M, Vandenberghe R, Ducharme S, Le Ber I, Levin J, Lebouvier T, Nacmias B, Otto M, Butler CR, Santana I, Bertoux M, Tartaglia MC, Rohrer JD, Poos JM; GENFI Consortium. Cross-country variance in facial emotion recognition in presymptomatic and symptomatic behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia: Insights from the GENFI and ReDLat consortia. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Oct;21(10):e70741. doi: 10.1002/alz.70741. PMID: 41085124; PMCID: PMC12519523.
Dias de Castro E, Cardoso LM, Jácome de Castro J, Ferreira MB. Delphi Consensus on Attenuated Androgen Use for Long-Term Prophylaxis in Hereditary Angioedema: AURA Project. Clin Transl Allergy. 2025 Nov;15(11):e70116. doi: 10.1002/clt2.70116. PMID: 41219138; PMCID: PMC12606019.
Maria Fátima Dias, João Valente Duarte, Paulo de Carvalho, Miguel Castelo-Branco, Unravelling pathological ageing with brain age gap estimation in Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and schizophrenia, Brain Communications, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2025, fcaf109, https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcaf109
Dias, C., Sousa, T., Cruz, A. et al. A role for preparatory midfrontal theta in autism as revealed by a high executive load brain–computer interface reverse spelling task. Sci Rep 15, 16671 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-00670-7
Dias C, Sousa T, Castelo-Branco M. A chronometric relationship between circuits underlying learning and error monitoring in the basal ganglia and salience network. Imaging Neurosci (Camb). 2024 Nov 5;2:imag-2-00343. doi: 10.1162/imag_a_00343. PMID: 40800448; PMCID: PMC12290811.
Dias de Castro E, Cardoso LM, Jácome de Castro J, Ferreira MB. Delphi Consensus on Attenuated Androgen Use for Long-Term Prophylaxis in Hereditary Angioedema: AURA Project. Clin Transl Allergy. 2025 Nov;15(11):e70116. doi: 10.1002/clt2.70116. PMID: 41219138; PMCID: PMC12606019.
Duarte, I. C., Ribeiro, B., Jorge, H., Direito, B., & Castelo-Branco, M. (2025). Trust-Based Decision-Making in the Health and Economic Domains Shows Similar Neural Correlates. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70076
Ferreira C, Carvalho F, Vieira P, Alves A, Palavra F, Almeida J, Alves V, Coscueta E, Pereira PD, Pintado M, Sá H, Castelo-Branco M, Reis F, Viana S. Intestinal mucosal alterations parallel central demyelination and remyelination: insights into the gut-brain axis in the cuprizone model of multiple sclerosis. Front Immunol. 2025 Oct 28;16:1682183. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1682183. PMID: 41229423; PMCID: PMC12602228.
Ferreira, H., Santos, S., Martins, J. et al. Distinct early development trajectories in Nf1± and Tsc2± mouse models of autism. J Neurodevelop Disord 17, 42 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-025-09624-6
Ferreira, M.J., Marques-Alves, P., Silva, R. et al. Molecular imaging in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: an exploratory study with 2-[18F]FDG and [13N]NH3. EJNMMI Res 15, 18 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13550-025-01212-y
Ferreira-Rodrigues M, Sousa IS, Baptista FI and Coelho-Santos V (2025) Stress in utero: prenatal dexamethasone exposure causes greater structural gliovascular alterations in female offspring than in males. Front. Neurosci. 19:1539867. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2025.1539867
Ferreira M, Marques JP, Raimundo M, Quental H, Castelo-Branco M. Improvements induced by retinal gene therapy with voretigene neparvovec depend on visual cortical hemispheric dominance mechanisms. Commun Med (Lond). 2025 Apr 9;5(1):107. doi: 10.1038/s43856-025-00820-y. PMID: 40204976; PMCID: PMC11982196.
Ferreira, M., Matias, F., Abrunhosa, A., Martins, R., & Castelo-Branco, M. (2025). Evidence for neuroplasticity in the human brain in health and disease: A systematic review focusing on molecular imaging using PET. Neural Plasticity, 2025 doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/np/9423232
Fonseca, A.I., Sereno, J., Almeida, S. et al. Unveiling the potential of copper-61 vs. gallium-68 for SSTR PET imaging. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-025-07116-2
Fontoura Dias S, Barbosa M, Júlio F, Clarke A, Metcalfe A, Sequeiros J, Paneque M, Sousa L, Mendes Á. Communicating Genetic Information in Families with Inherited Late-Onset Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Scoping Review. Health Commun. 2025 Mar 26:1-23. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2025.2475565. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40135509.
Fortunato MC, Neves J, Pais ML, Fonseca C, Silva D, Martins J, Castelo-Branco M, Fortuna A, Gonçalves J. Maternal Tryptophan Supplementation Alters Offspring Gut-Brain Axis and Behavior in a Sex-Specific Manner. J Neurochem. 2025 Jul;169(7):e70161. doi: 10.1111/jnc.70161. PMID: 40682390.
Franco, R. M., d’Almeida, O. C., Raimundo, M., Fonseca, P., Matos, S., Martins, A. I., … Lemos, J. (2025). The Clinical Use of Retinotopy in Functional Hemianopia. Neuro-Ophthalmology, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/01658107.2025.2474542
Gil P, d'Almeida OC, Cunha B, Gil JQ, Donato H, Alves N, Rosa A, Murta J. Criteria for Keratoconus Progression: A Systematic Review of Diagnostic Test Accuracy. Cornea. 2025 Oct 22. doi: 10.1097/ICO.0000000000004020. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41247279.
Gouveia F, Pérez MC, Bicker J, Silva A, Santos AE, Pereira CF, Camins A, Falcão A, Cruz T, Ettcheto M, Fortuna A. Protective effects of irbesartan against neurodegeneration in APP/PS1 mice: Unraveling its triple anti-apoptotic, anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant action. Biomed Pharmacother. 2025 May 24;188:118167. doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2025.118167. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40414000.
Guareschi F, Fonseca C, Silva S, Pescina S, Nicoli S, Buttini F, Sonvico F, Fortuna A. Therapeutic effect of cyclosporine A-loading TPGS micelles on a mouse model of LPS-induced neuroinflammation. Eur J Pharm Sci. 2025 Feb 1;205:106994. doi: 10.1016/j.ejps.2024.106994. Epub 2024 Dec 17. PMID: 39701548.
Júlio F, Ribeiro MJ, Simões MR, Castelo-Branco M, Januário C. Assessing the impact of age on everyday cognitive function with a virtual environment task: The EcoKitchen. Appl Neuropsychol Adult. 2025 Sep-Oct;32(5):1306-1316. doi: 10.1080/23279095.2023.2265521. Epub 2023 Oct 17. PMID: 37847996.
Krauel K, Brauer H, Breitling-Ziegler C, et al. Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Pediatric Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(2):e2460477. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.60477
Lapo Pais, M., Crisóstomo, J., Abrunhosa, A. et al. PET/fMRI demonstrates that bariatric surgery may reverse striatal dopaminergic dysfunction in women with obesity. Commun Med 5, 375 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-01079-z
Leite, L., Carlos, T., Ferraz Costa, G., Cruz, I., Donato, H., Silva, R., Castelo-Branco, M., Gonçalves, L., & Ferreira, M. J. (2025). Effect of percutaneous coronary intervention on chronic total occlusions with documented viability or ischemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12872-025-05405-0
Luckhardt C, Schütz M, Mühlherr AM, Boxhoorn S, Ecker C, Mössinger H, Siemann J, Schlechter F, Castelo-Branco M, Pereira HC, Latinus M, Ricou C, Bonnet-Brilhault F, Salvador R, Ruffini G, Nowak R, Siniatchkin M, Dempfle A, Freitag CM. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of the Temporoparietal Junction in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Results of a Phase-IIa Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Feasibility Study. Autism Res. 2025 Jul 16. doi: 10.1002/aur.70084. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40665956.
Lima, G., Soares, C., Teixeira, M., Pais, M., Cabral, C., Rijo, P., & Castelo-Branco, M. (2025). Inhaled N,N-dimethyltryptamine diminishes connectivity between the ventral tegmental area and the nucleus accumbens: relevance to pathologies of mesolimbic and mesocortical pathways. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-31431-1
Luís, M., Pinto, A. M., Häuser, W., Jacobs, J. W., Saraiva, A., Giorgi, V., Sarzi‑Puttini, P., Castelo‑Branco, M., Geenen, R., & Pereira da Silva, J. A. (2025). Fibromyalgia and post‑traumatic stress disorder: Different parts of an elephant? Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 43(6), 1146–1160.
Madeira N, França G, Jesus G, Fernandes JM, Almeida SS, Filipe CN. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults: Position of Portuguese Experts on Diagnosis and Treatment. Acta Med Port. 2025 Mar 3;38(3):187-196. doi: 10.20344/amp.22149. Epub 2025 Mar 3. PMID: 40029877.
Marques CC, Sayal A, Palmeira L, Goss K, Correia R, Castilho P, Pereira AT, Castelo-Branco M. Therapeutic Benefits of a 16-Week Compassion Focused Therapy for Overeating Are Associated With Positive Autonomic Changes and Putamen Responses. Int J Eat Disord. 2025 May 5. doi: 10.1002/eat.24456. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40325978.
Marques-Alves, P., Ferreira, M.J.V., Silva, R. et al. 2-[18F]FDG PET identifies metabolic substrates of sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Sci Rep 15, 41298 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-25140-y
Mendes, L., Leonido, L., Pereira, N., & Morgado, E. (2025). Psychometric Validation of the Passive and Active Use Measure (PAUM) for Facebook and Instagram among a Portuguese Sample. Specijalna edukacija i rehabilitacija, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.5937/specedreh24-48147
Mendes, L., Leonido, L., Pereira, A., & Morgado, E. G. (2025). Effects of theta-binaural beats auditory stimulation on creativity, psychological well-being and mood states of university students: Pilot study. International Journal of Innovative Research and Scientific Studies, 8(2), 239–248. https://doi.org/10.53894/ijirss.v8i2.5142
Mendes M, António M, Daniel-da-Silva AL, Sereno J, Oliveira R, Arnaut LG, Gomes C, Ramos ML, Castelo-Branco M, Sousa J, Pais A, Vitorino C.A switch-on chemo-photothermal nanotherapy impairs glioblastoma. Mater Horiz. 2025 Apr 9. doi: 10.1039/d5mh00351b. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40202681.
Mendes, M., Sereno, J., Ramos, M. L., Fortuna, A., Oliveira, R., Simões, S., Ferreira, L., Falcão, A., Castelo-Branco, M., Abrunhosa, A. J., Sousa, J., Pais, A., & Vitorino, C. (2025). Dual-targeted hyaluronic acid conjugates on lipid nanoparticles improve delivery and efficacy against glioblastoma: The linkage leads the fate. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 332, Article 148404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.148404
Moreno, C., d’Almeida, O. C., Crisóstomo, J., Canário, N., Gomes, L., & Castelo‑Branco, M. (2025). Habit‑learning and decision‑making circuits are susceptible to glycemic variability in type 2 diabetes: A longitudinal study. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 19, Article 1430185. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2025.1430185
Neves, M. M., Ventura, F., & Madeira, N. (2025). Neuromodulation in the treatment of social cognition dysfunction in schizophrenia: A systematic review. NPJ Schizophrenia, 11, Article 87. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41537-025-00629-7
R. Neves, J., Castelo-Branco, M. & Gonçalves, J. The role of neonatal kisspeptin in long-term social behavior in mammals. Commun Biol 8, 1085 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08478-x
Nunes AR, Alves G, Falcão A, Lopes JA, Silva LR. Phenolic Acids from Fruit By-Products as Therapeutic Agents for Metabolic Syndrome: A Review. Int J Mol Sci. 2025 Apr 18;26(8):3834. doi: 10.3390/ijms26083834. PMID: 40332518; PMCID: PMC12027487.
Oliveira S, Guimarães P, Campos EJ, Fernandes R, Martins J, Castelo-Branco M, Serranho P, Matafome P, Bernardes R, Ambrósio AF. Retinal OCT-Derived Texture Features as Potential Biomarkers for Early Diagnosis and Progression of Diabetic Retinopathy. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2025 Jan 2;66(1):7. doi: 10.1167/iovs.66.1.7. PMID: 39760689; PMCID: PMC11717131.
Oliveira, S., Guimarães, P., Roque-Rosado, Â. et al. Early retinal changes in type 2 diabetes detected by texture-based OCT analysis: potential approach for subclinical diabetic retinopathy diagnosis. Eye and Vis 12, 36 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40662-025-00451-3
Ordin M, Barbarroja N, Polyanskaya L, Manrique HM, Castelo-Branco M. Metacognition and Cognitive Flexibility in Autistic and Neurotypically-Developing Populations. Brain Behav. 2025 Jul;15(7):e70668. doi: 10.1002/brb3.70668. PMID: 40635451; PMCID: PMC12241702.
Pais ML, Crisóstomo J, Abrunhosa A, Castelo-Branco M. Central dopamine receptors: Radiotracers unveiling the Role of dopaminergic tone in obesity. J Mol Med (Berl). 2025 Jan;103(1):21-32. doi: 10.1007/s00109-024-02501-0. Epub 2024 Dec 4. PMID: 39630278; PMCID: PMC11739276.
Pais ML, Castelo-Branco M, Gonçalves J. Brain-related sexual dimorphism in tuberous sclerosis complex: an overlooked matter. Trends Mol Med. 2025 Jan 21:S1471-4914(25)00002-4. doi: 10.1016/j.molmed.2025.01.002. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39843289.
Pais, M.L., Sereno, J., Tomé, V.A. et al. Sex-specific cortical networks drive social behavior differences in an autism spectrum disorder model. Transl Psychiatry 15, 251 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-025-03464-7
Paiva, L., Ferreira, M. J., Afonso, S., Donato, P., & Gonçalves, L. (2025). Cardiac T1 mapping in non‑ST‑segment elevation myocardial infarction: Temporal changes in myocardial fibrosis. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 12, Article 1563368. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2025.1563368
Paixão J and Pedro Serranho A hybrid method for the time-harmonic inverse acoustic transmission problem. 2025 Phys. Scr. 100 045228
Paulo, J. R., Sousa, T., Perdiz, J., Pereira, L., Vasen, M., Mouga, S., Pires, G., & Castelo‑Branco, M. (2025).A multimodal dataset addressing motor function in autism. Scientific Data, 12, 959. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05313-0
Pereira, A. C., Marques, A. P., Resende, R., Serrano-Cuñarro, L., Caldeira, M., Fernandes, T., Batista, M., Macedo, A., De Melo, J. B., Madeira, N., Cavadas, C., Cruz, M. T., & Pereira, C. F. (2025). Changes in the endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria communication in dermal fibroblasts from early-stage bipolar disorder patients: Skin-brain axis as a new route to understand the pathophysiology of mental illness?. International Journal of Molecular Medicine, 56, 213. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2025.5654
Ribeiro, F. M., Encarnação, P. M. C. C., Silva, A. L. M., Correia, P. M. M., Pinto, A. X., Oliveira, R. G., Sereno, J., Pais, M. L., & Abrunhosa, A. (2025). First performance evaluation of easyPET.3D, a high-resolution and cost-effective benchtop preclinical PET scanner. EJNMMI Physics, 12, Article 48. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40658-025-00757-0
Ribeiro FM, Gonçalves J, Coelho L, Castelo-Branco M, Martins J. Sex-Dependent Variations of Retinal Function and Architecture in a Neurofibromatosis Type I Mouse Model with Normal Vision. Exp Eye Res. 2025 Feb 12:110279. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2025.110279. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39952425.
F. M. Ribeiro et al., "Sensitivity and Spatial Resolution Optimization of a High-Resolution Preclinical PET With a Unique Acquisition Method," in IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, doi: 10.1109/TRPMS.2025.3546120.
Ribeiro FL, Zhu X, Ye X, Tu S, Ngo ST, Henderson RD, Steyn FJ, Kiernan MC, Barth M, Bollmann S, Shaw TB. An Annotated Multi-Site and Multi-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Dataset for the study of the Human Tongue Musculature. Sci Data. 2025 May 14;12(1):790. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-05092-8. PMID: 40368940; PMCID: PMC12078697.
Alexandra S. L. Rodrigues, Gonçalo G. Lobo, Tiago Machado, Daniela J. Pereira(2025). Aurora: Open-Access Web App for Structured Neuroradiology Report and Score Calculation. American Journal of Neuroradiology Jul 2025, ajnr.A8940; DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A8940
Rodrigues AM, Costa C, Gago M, Grunho M, Guedes LC, Morgadinho A, Rosas MJ, Simões R, Velon AG. Expert perspectives on the use of safinamide for Parkinson's disease in Portugal: insights from a Portuguese Delphi Consensus. J Comp Eff Res. 2025 Jul;14(7):e240228. doi: 10.57264/cer-2024-0228. Epub 2025 Jun 6. PMID: 40474741; PMCID: PMC12224116.
Rodrigues, D.; Fonseca, A.I.; do Carmo, S.; Sereno, J.; Hrynchak, I.; Moreira, J.N.; Gomes, C.; Abrunhosa, A. Is Copper-61 the New Gallium-68? Automation and Preclinical Proof-of-Concept of 61Cu-Based Radiopharmaceuticals for Prostate Cancer Imaging. Pharmaceuticals 2025, 18, 469. https://doi.org/10.3390/ph18040469
Rodrigues D, Fonseca AI, Moreira JN, Gomes C, Abrunhosa A.Molecular targets and the emerging role of copper radionuclides in prostate cancer theranostics. EJNMMI Res. 2025 Nov 18;15(1):136. doi: 10.1186/s13550-025-01325-4. PMID: 41251982; PMCID: PMC12627307.
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Pires Coelho, M., Agostinho, D., Sousa, T., Pires, G., & Castelo-Branco, M. (2026). Face expectancy cues differentially modulate conflict processing driven by emotional incongruence: An EEG study. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-34447-9
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Salgado, C., Azenha Cardoso, R., Soares, C., Borges, I. O., & Azenha Cardoso, J. (2026). Patterns of Relapse and Metastisation in Lip Squamous Cell Carcinoma – Experience of a Clinical Centre. European Journal of Stomatology, Oral and Facial Surgery.
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