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2026

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Psychology

D-Index
49
Citations
8321
World Ranking
5733
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Gisele Gus Manfro is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with contributions emphasizing clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work covers a variety of topics including anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, COVID-19 and mental health, mental health research topics broadly, functional brain connectivity studies, mindfulness and compassion interventions, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

Manfro has published frequently in several academic venues, notably:

  • Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Translational Psychiatry

Their recent significant papers include:

  • "Threat and deprivation are associated with distinct aspects of cognition, emotional processing, and psychopathology in children and adolescents" (2022, Developmental Science)
  • "Mega-analysis methods in ENIGMA: The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group" (2020, Human Brain Mapping)
  • "Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors for anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and stress disorders: A 3-level network meta-analysis" (2021, PLoS Medicine)
  • "Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group" (2021, Translational Psychiatry)
  • "Alterations in microRNA of extracellular vesicles associated with major depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity and anxiety disorders in adolescents" (2023, Translational Psychiatry)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Giovanni Abrahão Salum
  • Marianna de Abreu Costa
  • Carolina Blaya Dreher
  • Pedro Mário Pan
  • Natan Pereira Gosmann

Best Publications

  • Transtornos de ansiedade

    Ana Regina G.L Castillo;Rogeria Recondo;Fernando R Asbahr;Gisele G Manfro

  • A general psychopathology factor (P factor) in children: Structural model analysis and external validation through familial risk and child global executive function.

    Michelle M Martel;Pedro M Pan;Maurício S Hoffmann;Ary Gadelha

  • Cognitive-behavioral group therapy in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a randomized clinical trial.

    Aristides Volpato Cordioli;Elizeth Heldt;Daniela Braga Bochi;Regina Margis

  • Sertraline in the treatment of panic disorder: a flexible-dose multicenter trial.

    Mark H. Pollack;Michael W. Otto;John J. Worthington;Gisele Gus Manfro

  • High risk cohort study for psychiatric disorders in childhood: Rationale, design, methods and preliminary results

    Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Ary Gadelha;Ary Gadelha;Pedro Mario Pan;Pedro Mario Pan;Tais Silveira Moriyama;Tais Silveira Moriyama;Tais Silveira Moriyama

  • Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) in Brazilian Samples of Different Age Groups: Findings from Confirmatory Factor Analysis

    Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira;Hugo Cogo-Moreira;Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Elisa Brietzke

  • Factor structure, reliability, and item parameters of the brazilian-portuguese version of the GAD-7 questionnaire

    André Luiz Moreno;Diogo A. de Sousa;Ana Maria Frota Lisbôa P. Souza;Gisele Gus Manfro

  • Quality of life in patients with panic disorder.

    Philip J. Candilis;Renée Y.S. McLean;Michael W. Otto;Gisele Gus Manfro

  • Venlafaxine for panic disorder: results from a double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

    M H Pollack;J J Worthington rd;M W Otto;K M Maki

  • Abecarnil for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder: a placebo-controlled comparison of two dosage ranges of abecarnil and buspirone.

    Mark H. Pollack;John J. Worthington;Gisele Gus Manfro;Michael W. Otto

  • Threat bias in attention orienting: evidence of specificity in a large community-based study

    G. A. Salum;K. Mogg;B. P. Bradley;A. Gadelha

  • Treating Medication-Resistant Panic Disorder: Predictors and Outcome of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy in a Brazilian Public Hospital

    Elizeth Heldt;Gisele Gus Manfro;Leticia Kipper;Carolina Blaya

  • A randomized clinical trial of cognitive-behavioral group therapy and sertraline in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Marcelo B. Sousa;Luciano R. Isolan;Renata R. Oliveira;Gisele G. Manfro

  • One-year follow-up of pharmacotherapy-resistant patients with panic disorder treated with cognitive-behavior therapy: Outcome and predictors of remission.

    Elizeth Heldt;Gisele Gus Manfro;Leticia Kipper;Carolina Blaya

  • Associations between parenting behavior and anxiety in a rodent model and a clinical sample: relationship to peripheral BDNF levels

    R Dalle Molle;A K Portella;M Z Goldani;F P Kapczinski

  • Psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) in Brazilian children and adolescents.

    Luciano Isolan;Giovanni Abrahão Salum;Andrea Tochetto Osowski;Estácio Amaro

  • Relationship of antecedent stressful life events to childhood and family history of anxiety and the course of panic disorder.

    Gisele Gus Manfro;Michael W. Otto;Eliza T. McArdle;John J. Worthington

  • Cognitive-behavioral group therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a 1-year follow-up.

    D. T. Braga;A. V. Cordioli;K. Niederauer;G. G. Manfro

  • Efeitos da depressão materna no desenvolvimento neurobiológico e psicológico da criança

    Maria da Graça Motta;Aldo Bolten Lucion;Gisele Gus Manfro

  • Threat and deprivation are associated with distinct aspects of cognition, emotional processing and psychopathology in children and adolescents.

    Unknown

  • [Brazilian-Portuguese version of the Defense Style Questionnaire (DSQ-40) for defense mechanisms measure: a preliminary study].

    Carolina Blaya;Letícia Kipper;Elizeth Heldt;Luciano Isolan

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Abrahão Salum
Giovanni Abrahão Salum Child Mind Institute
Euripedes Constantino Miguel
Euripedes Constantino Miguel Universidade de São Paulo
Silvia Helena Koller
Silvia Helena Koller Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira
Rodrigo Grassi-Oliveira Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Rodrigo B. Mansur
Rodrigo B. Mansur University Health Network
Argyris Stringaris
Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health
Brendan P. Bradley
Brendan P. Bradley University of Southampton
Michael Bond
Michael Bond Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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