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Benito Pereira Damasceno

Benito Pereira Damasceno

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Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
5704
World Ranking
7925
National Ranking
68

Overview

Benito Pereira Damasceno is affiliated with the State University of Campinas in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with particular attention to Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Physiology, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, which include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Social Representations and Identity
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Polyomavirus and Related Diseases
  • Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Damasceno are the following:

  • "Diagnóstico da doença de Alzheimer: recomendações do Departamento Científico de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Envelhecimento da Academia Brasileira de Neurologia", 2022, Dementia & Neuropsychologia
  • "Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: recommendations of the Scientific Department of Cognitive Neurology and Aging of the Brazilian Academy of Neurology", 2022, Dementia & Neuropsychologia
  • "Associations between cognitive and clinical disability across MS subtypes: The role of the underlying brain damage", 2020, Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
  • "Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease: A 12-Month Follow-Up Study", 2021, Frontiers in Neurology
  • "Are we ready to define cognitive worsening in MS? How different cutoffs detect future cognitive worsening after six years of follow-up", 2022, Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders

Damasceno has contributed to book publications as well, including the title "Sociedade de autônomos: crítica ao individualismo contemporâneo a partir de Byung-Chul Han e Hannah Arendt," published in 2023 by Dialética eBooks.

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Márcio Luiz Figueredo Balthazar
  • Leonardo Cruz de Souza
  • Paulo Caramelli
  • Sônia Maria Dozzi Brucki
  • Ricardo Nitríni

Frequent venues for Damasceno's publications encompass:

  • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
  • Dementia & Neuropsychologia
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Cadernos CEDES
  • Cuadernos de Educación y Desarrollo

Best Publications

  • Diagnóstico de doença de Alzheimer no Brasil: avaliação cognitiva e funcional ; recomendações do Departamento Científico de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Envelhecimento da Academia Brasileira de Neurologia

    Ricardo Nitrini;Paulo Caramelli;Cássio Machado de Campos Bottino;Benito Pereira Damasceno

  • Asymmetrical hippocampal connectivity in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: evidence from resting state fMRI

    Fabrício R S Pereira;Andréa Alessio;Maurício S Sercheli;Tatiane Pedro

  • Neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease are related to functional connectivity alterations in the salience network.

    Marcio L. F. Balthazar;Fabrício R. S. Pereira;Tátila M. Lopes;Elvis L. da Silva

  • Promoter Polymorphisms in the Plasma Glutathione Peroxidase (GPx-3) Gene. A Novel Risk Factor for Arterial Ischemic Stroke Among Young Adults and Children

    Barbara Voetsch;Richard C. Jin;Richard C. Jin;Charlene Bierl;Kelly S. Benke

  • Differences in memory performance and other clinical characteristics in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with and without hippocampal atrophy

    A. Alessio;B.P. Damasceno;C.H.P. Camargo;E. Kobayashi

  • Memory and language impairments and their relationships to hippocampal and perirhinal cortex damage in patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy

    Andréa Alessio;Leonardo Bonilha;Chris Rorden;Eliane Kobayashi

  • Semantic error patterns on the Boston Naming Test in normal aging, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and mild Alzheimer's disease: is there semantic disruption?

    Marcio Luiz Figueredo Balthazar;Fernando Cendes;Benito Pereira Damasceno

  • Inherited thrombophilia as a risk factor for the development of ischemic stroke in young adults.

    Barbara Voetsch;Benito P. Damasceno;Erica C. S. Camargo;Ayrton Massaro

  • MR Imaging Texture Analysis of the Corpus Callosum and Thalamus in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Alzheimer Disease

    M.S. de Oliveira;M.L.F. Balthazar;A. D'Abreu;C.L. Yasuda

  • Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in Brazil: diagnostic criteria and auxiliary tests. Recommendations of the Scientific Department of Cognitive Neurology and Aging of the Brazilian Academy of Neurology

    Ricardo Nitrini;Paulo Caramelli;Cássio Machado de Campos Bottino;Benito Pereira Damasceno

  • Cerebral venous thrombosis: influence of risk factors and imaging findings on prognosis.

    Simone Appenzeller;Carlos Borelli Zeller;Joyce M. Annichino-Bizzachi;Lilian T.L. Costallat

  • Critérios para o diagnóstico de doença de Alzheimer

    Norberto Anízio Ferreira Frota;Ricardo Nitrini;Benito Pereira Damasceno;Orestes Forlenza

  • Brain plasticity for verbal and visual memories in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and hippocampal sclerosis: An fMRI study

    Andréa Alessio;Fabricio R.S. Pereira;Maurício S. Sercheli;Jane M. Rondina

  • Neuropsychiatric Symptoms, Caregiver Burden and Distress in Behavioral-Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

    Thais Bento Lima-Silva;Valéria Santoro Bahia;Viviane Amaral Carvalho;Henrique Cerqueira Guimarães

  • No evidence of disease activity in multiple sclerosis: Implications on cognition and brain atrophy:

    Alfredo Damasceno;Benito Pereira Damasceno;Fernando Cendes

  • Whole cortical and default mode network mean functional connectivity as potential biomarkers for mild Alzheimer's disease.

    Marcio Luiz Figueredo Balthazar;Brunno Machado de Campos;Alexandre Rosa Franco;Benito Pereira Damasceno

  • Pelvic floor muscle training in the treatment of lower urinary tract dysfunction in women with multiple sclerosis

    Adélia Correia Lúcio;Renata Martins Campos;Maria Carolina Perissinotto;Ricardo Miyaoka

  • Primitive reflexes and cognitive function

    Alfredo Damasceno;Adriane M. Delicio;Daniel F.C. Mazo;João F.D. Zullo

  • Learning, retrieval, and recognition are compromised in aMCI and mild AD: are distinct episodic memory processes mediated by the same anatomical structures?

    Marcio L. F. Balthazar;Clarissa L. Yasuda;Fernando Cendes;Benito P. Damasceno

  • Extrahippocampal gray matter atrophy and memory impairment in patients with medial temporal lobe epilepsy

    Leonardo Bonilha;Andréa Alessio;Chris Rorden;Gordon Baylis

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando Cendes
Fernando Cendes State University of Campinas
Paulo Caramelli
Paulo Caramelli Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Mônica Sanches Yassuda
Mônica Sanches Yassuda Universidade de São Paulo
Eliane Kobayashi
Eliane Kobayashi Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Andreia V. Faria
Andreia V. Faria Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Leonardo Bonilha
Leonardo Bonilha Medical University of South Carolina
Carlos A.M. Guerreiro
Carlos A.M. Guerreiro State University of Campinas
Georg Northoff
Georg Northoff University of Ottawa
Olivier Piguet
Olivier Piguet University of Sydney
Chris Rorden
Chris Rorden University of South Carolina

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