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Overview

Edson Amaro is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and works primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research portfolio spans several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Surgery.

The scientist's recent papers cover a range of topics and were published in various notable venues. These include:

  • Rapid hippocampal plasticity supports motor sequence learning, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Exercise for Parkinsonian Individuals With Freezing of Gait, 2020, Movement Disorders
  • GeoSES: A socioeconomic index for health and social research in Brazil, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Prediction of metabolic syndrome: A machine learning approach to help primary prevention, 2022, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
  • BRAX, Brazilian labeled chest x-ray dataset, 2022, Scientific Data

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Edson Amaro include:

  • Nelson Wolosker
  • Marcelo Fiorelli Alexandrino da Silva
  • Marcelo Passos Teivelis
  • Nickolas Stabellini
  • Cláudia Szlejf

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in the following venues:

  • Einstein (São Paulo)
  • Annals of Vascular Surgery
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
  • Frontiers in Neurology

Edson Amaro's research topics reflect a focus on several critical areas within medical science, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Aortic aneurysm repair treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders

The diversity of fields and topics covered by this researcher highlights a multidisciplinary approach chiefly oriented toward neurological and vascular medicine, as well as the integration of advanced methodologies such as machine learning.

Best Publications

  • Study design in fMRI: basic principles.

    Edson Amaro;Gareth J. Barker

  • Meditation training increases brain efficiency in an attention task.

    Elisa H. Kozasa;João Ricardo Sato;João Ricardo Sato;Shirley S. Lacerda;Maria A. M. Barreiros

  • Regional gray matter abnormalities in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a voxel-based morphometry study.

    Antonio A. Valente;Euripedes C. Miguel;Claudio C. Castro;Edson Amaro

  • Subregional basal forebrain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease: a multicenter study.

    Ingo Kilimann;Michel Grothe;Helmut Heinsen;Eduardo Joaquim Lopez Alho

  • The effect of negative emotional context on neural and behavioural responses to oesophageal stimulation.

    Mary L. Phillips;Lloyd J. Gregory;Sarah Cullen;Steven Cohen

  • White matter microstructure underlying default mode network connectivity in the human brain.

    Stefan J. Teipel;Arun L.W. Bokde;Thomas Meindl;Edson Amaro

  • Age-related gray matter volume changes in the brain during non-elderly adulthood

    Débora Terribilli;Maristela S. Schaufelberger;Fábio L.S. Duran;Marcus V. Zanetti

  • An fMRI Study of Verbal Self-monitoring: Neural Correlates of Auditory Verbal Feedback

    Cynthia H.Y. Fu;Goparlen N. Vythelingum;Michael J. Brammer;Steve C.R. Williams

  • Misattribution of speech and impaired connectivity in patients with auditory verbal hallucinations

    Andrea Mechelli;Paul Allen;Edson Amaro;Cynthia H.Y. Fu

  • Aging Effects on Whole-Brain Functional Connectivity in Adults Free of Cognitive and Psychiatric Disorders

    Luiz Kobuti Ferreira;Ana Carolina Brocanello Regina;Natasa Kovacevic;Maria da Graça Morais Martin

  • Volumetric analysis reveals corticospinal tract degeneration and extramotor involvement in ALS.

    C. M. Ellis;J. Suckling;E. Amaro;E. T. Bullmore

  • Acoustic noise and functional magnetic resonance imaging: current strategies and future prospects.

    Edson Amaro;Edson Amaro;Steve C.R. Williams;Sukhi S. Shergill;Cynthia H.Y. Fu

  • Modulation of activity in temporal cortex during generation of inner speech

    Sukhwinder S. Shergill;Michael J. Brammer;Rimmei Fukuda;Ed Bullmore

  • Neural correlates of anxiety associated with obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions in normal volunteers

    David Mataix-Cols;Sarah Cullen;Kezia Lange;Fernando Zelaya

  • Neural correlates of the misattribution of speech in schizophrenia.

    Paul Allen;Edson Amaro;Cynthia H. Y. Fu;Steven C. R. Williams

  • Silent speechreading in the absence of scanner noise: an event-related fMRI study.

    Mairéad Macsweeney;Edson Amaro;Gemma A. Calvert;Ruth Campbell

  • Human attachment security is mediated by the amygdala: evidence from combined fMRI and psychophysiological measures.

    Erwin Lemche;Vincent P. Giampietro;Simon A. Surguladze;Edson J. Amaro

  • Brain response to visceral aversive conditioning: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Lidia Yágüez;Steven Coen;Lloyd J. Gregory;Edson Amaro

  • Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation: Basic Concepts and Novel Perspectives

    Clement Hamani;Gerson Florence;Helmut Heinsen;Birgit R. Plantinga

  • Depression in Parkinson's disease: Convergence from voxel-based morphometry and functional magnetic resonance imaging in the limbic thalamus

    Ellison Fernando Cardoso;Fernanda Martins Maia;Felipe Fregni;Martin Luis Myczkowski

  • Stroke lesion in cortical neural circuits and post-stroke incidence of major depressive episode: A 4-month prospective study

    Luisa Terroni;Edson Amaro;Dan V. Iosifescu;Gisela Tinone

Frequent Co-Authors

João Ricardo Sato
João Ricardo Sato Universidade Federal do ABC
Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Michael Brammer
Michael Brammer King's College London
Helmut Heinsen
Helmut Heinsen University of Würzburg
Cynthia H.Y. Fu
Cynthia H.Y. Fu University of East London
Marcelo Q. Hoexter
Marcelo Q. Hoexter Universidade de São Paulo
Giovanni Abrahão Salum
Giovanni Abrahão Salum Child Mind Institute
Euripedes Constantino Miguel
Euripedes Constantino Miguel Universidade de São Paulo
Vincent Giampietro
Vincent Giampietro King's College London
Louise Johns
Louise Johns University of Oxford

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