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João Ricardo Sato

João Ricardo Sato

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
11690
World Ranking
3870
National Ranking
16

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
60
Citations
11271
World Ranking
1488
National Ranking
14

Overview

João Ricardo Sato is affiliated with the Universidade Federal do ABC in Brazil. Their research spans multiple aspects of neuroscience and medicine, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and advanced imaging techniques.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these domains, they have contributed extensively to several subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Neurology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

Their research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

João Ricardo Sato has published research in several key venues including:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Neurophysiologie Clinique
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Their recent scientific papers include the following:

  • Optical imaging and spectroscopy for the study of the human brain: status report, 2022, Neurophotonics
  • Brain age prediction: A comparison between machine learning models using region- and voxel-based morphometric data, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • An overview of the first 5 years of the ENIGMA obsessive-compulsive disorder working group: The power of worldwide collaboration, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Neuroharmony: A new tool for harmonizing volumetric MRI data from unseen scanners, 2020, NeuroImage
  • OUP accepted manuscript, 2020, Brain

They collaborate frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Walter Hugo Lopez Pinaya
  • Pedro Mário Pan
  • Raimundo da Silva Soares
  • Claudinei Eduardo Biazoli
  • Marcelo Q. Hoexter

Best Publications

  • On the relationships between CO2 emissions, energy consumption and income: The importance of time variation

    Ahdi Noomen Ajmi;Shawkat Hammoudeh;Duc Khuong Nguyen;João Ricardo Sato

  • Distinct Subcortical Volume Alterations in Pediatric and Adult OCD: A Worldwide Meta- and Mega-Analysis.

    Premika S.W. Boedhoe;Lianne Schmaal;Yoshinari Abe;Stephanie H. Ameis

  • fNIRS Optodes’ Location Decider (fOLD): a toolbox for probe arrangement guided by brain regions-of-interest

    Guilherme Augusto Zimeo Morais;Joana Bisol Balardin;João Ricardo Sato

  • 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

  • Multicenter Voxel-Based Morphometry Mega-Analysis of Structural Brain Scans in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Stella J. De Wit;Pino Alonso;Lizanne Schweren;David Mataix-Cols

  • Cortical Abnormalities Associated With Pediatric and Adult Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Findings From the ENIGMA Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Working Group

    Premika S.W. Boedhoe;Lianne Schmaal;Yoshinari Abe;Pino Alonso

  • Art for Reward's Sake: Visual Art Recruits the Ventral Striatum

    Simon A Lacey;Henrik Hagtvedt;Vanessa M. Patrick;Amy Anderson

  • 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

  • Time-varying analysis of CO2 emissions, energy consumption, and economic growth nexus: Statistical experience in next 11 countries

    Muhammad Shahbaz;Mantu Kumar Mahalik;Syed Hasanat Shah;João Ricardo Sato

  • Imaging Brain Function with Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Unconstrained Environments.

    Joana B. Balardin;Guilherme A. Zimeo Morais;Rogério A. Furucho;Lucas Trambaiolli

  • Using deep belief network modelling to characterize differences in brain morphometry in schizophrenia.

    Walter H. L. Pinaya;Ary Gadelha;Orla M. Doyle;Cristiano Noto

  • Ventral Striatum Functional Connectivity as a Predictor of Adolescent Depressive Disorder in a Longitudinal Community-Based Sample

    Pedro Mario Pan;João R. Sato;Giovanni A. Salum;Luis A. Rohde

  • Beyond the target area: an integrative view of tDCS-induced motor cortex modulation in patients and athletes

    Edgard Morya;Edgard Morya;Kátia Monte-Silva;Marom Bikson;Zeinab Esmaeilpour

  • A method to produce evolving functional connectivity maps during the course of an fMRI experiment using wavelet-based time-varying Granger causality.

    João Ricardo Sato;Edson Amaro Junior;Daniel Yasumasa Takahashi;Marcelo de Maria Felix

  • 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

  • Frequency domain connectivity identification: an application of partial directed coherence in fMRI.

    João R. Sato;Daniel Y. Takahashi;Silvia M. Arcuri;Koichi Sameshima

  • Acute Biphasic Effects of Ayahuasca

    Eduardo Ekman Schenberg;João Felipe Morel Alexandre;Renato Filev;Andre Mascioli Cravo

  • Using deep autoencoders to identify abnormal brain structural patterns in neuropsychiatric disorders: A large‐scale multi‐sample study

    Walter H. L. Pinaya;Walter H. L. Pinaya;Andrea Mechelli;João R. Sato

  • Cortical thickness in obsessive–compulsive disorder: multisite mega-analysis of 780 brain scans from six centres

    Jean Paul Fouche;Stefan Du Plessis;Coenie Hattingh;Annerine Roos

Frequent Co-Authors

Edson Amaro
Edson Amaro Universidade de São Paulo
Luis Augusto Rohde
Luis Augusto Rohde Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Giovanni Abrahão Salum
Giovanni Abrahão Salum Child Mind Institute
Marcelo Q. Hoexter
Marcelo Q. Hoexter Universidade de São Paulo
Euripedes Constantino Miguel
Euripedes Constantino Miguel Universidade de São Paulo
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
José M. Menchón
José M. Menchón University of Barcelona
María del Pino Alonso Ortega
María del Pino Alonso Ortega Bellvitge University Hospital
Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Damiaan Denys
Damiaan Denys University of Amsterdam

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