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Overview

Osborne F. X. Almeida is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Germany. Their research primarily spans neuroscience, psychology, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The work integrates various subfields, including molecular biology, behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, physiology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Almeida's scientific contributions focus on several key topics:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Some of the recent papers where Osborne F. X. Almeida has contributed as an author include:

  • Leveraging Neuroscience to Fight Stigma Around Mental Health, 2022, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Aging Brain is Born, 2021, Aging Brain
  • Early and specific detection of Alzheimer's disease: more than a (virtual) reality?, 2023, Brain Communications

Other notable papers from their research network, authored by collaborators but relevant to similar fields, are:

  • Sex Hormone Depletion Augments Glucocorticoid Induction of Tau Hyperphosphorylation in Male Rat Brain, 2020, Neuroscience
  • Brain Expression, Physiological Regulation and Role in Motivation and Associative Learning of Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor γ, 2021, Neuroscience

The most frequent publication venues for Almeida's work include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Aging Brain
  • Brain Communications
  • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences

Collaborations have been a significant part of their scientific activities. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Ioannis Sotiropoulos
  • Nuno Sousa
  • Susanne Moosecker
  • Chrysoula Dioli
  • Shuang Yu

Best Publications

  • Dynamic DNA methylation programs persistent adverse effects of early-life stress

    Chris Murgatroyd;Alexandre V Patchev;Yonghe Wu;Vincenzo Micale

  • Reorganization of the morphology of hippocampal neurites and synapses after stress-induced damage correlates with behavioral improvement.

    N. Sousa;N.V. Lukoyanov;M.D. Madeira;O.F.X. Almeida

  • Melatonin: A Coordinating Signal for Mammalian Reproduction?

    Lawrence Tamarkin;Curtis J. Baird;O. F. X. Almeida

  • The Prefrontal Cortex as a Key Target of the Maladaptive Response to Stress

    João J Cerqueira;François Mailliet;Osborne F X Almeida;Thérèse M Jay

  • The mood-improving actions of antidepressants do not depend on neurogenesis but are associated with neuronal remodeling

    J M Bessa;D Ferreira;I Melo;F Marques

  • Neuropathology of stress

    Paul J. Lucassen;Jens Pruessner;Nuno Sousa;Osborne F. X. Almeida

  • A trans-dimensional approach to the behavioral aspects of depression.

    J. M. Bessa;Ana Raquel Marcelino Mesquita;Mário Oliveira;José M. Pêgo

  • The neurosteroid tetrahydroprogesterone counteracts corticotropin-releasing hormone-induced anxiety and alters the release and gene expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone in the rat hypothalamus.

    V. K. Patchev;M. Shoaib;F. Holsboer;O. F. X. Almeida

  • Subtle shifts in the ratio between pro- and antiapoptotic molecules after activation of corticosteroid receptors decide neuronal fate

    O. F. X. Almeida;G. L. Condé;C. Crochemore;B. A. Demeneix

  • Morphological Correlates of Corticosteroid-Induced Changes in Prefrontal Cortex-Dependent Behaviors

    João J. Cerqueira;José M. Pêgo;Ricardo Taipa;João M. Bessa

  • Soluble beta-amyloid1-40 induces NMDA-dependent degradation of postsynaptic density-95 at glutamatergic synapses

    F. Roselli;M. Tirard;J. Lu;P. Hutzler

  • Chronic Stress and Glucocorticoids: From Neuronal Plasticity to Neurodegeneration

    Sheela Vyas;Ana João Rodrigues;Joana Margarida Silva;Francois Tronche

  • The neurosteroid tetrahydroprogesterone attenuates the endocrine response to stress and exerts glucocorticoid-like effects on vasopressin gene transcription in the rat hypothalamus.

    V. K. Patchev;A. H. S. Hassan;F. Holsboer;O. F. X. Almeida

  • A hitchhiker's guide to behavioral analysis in laboratory rodents

    Nuno Sousa;O. F. X. Almeida;C. T. Wotjak

  • Stress Acts Cumulatively To Precipitate Alzheimer's Disease-Like Tau Pathology and Cognitive Deficits

    I. Sotiropoulos;C. Catania;L. G. Pinto;R. Silva

  • The stressed prefrontal cortex. Left? Right!

    João José Cerqueira;Osborne F. X. Almeida;Nuno Sousa;Nuno Sousa

  • Selective inhibitors of the FK506-binding protein 51 by induced fit

    Steffen Gaali;Alexander Kirschner;Serena Cuboni;Jakob Hartmann

  • Direct targeting of hippocampal neurons for apoptosis by glucocorticoids is reversible by mineralocorticoid receptor activation

    C. Crochemore;J. Lu;Y. Wu;Zs. Liposits

  • Implications of estrogen-dependent brain organization for gender differences in hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal regulation.

    Vladimir K. Patchev;Shinji Hayashi;Chitose Orikasa;Osborne F. X. Almeida

  • Exacerbation of Apoptosis in the Dentate Gyrus of the Aged Rat by Dexamethasone and the Protective Role of Corticosterone

    A. H. S. Hassan;P. von Rosenstiel;V. K. Patchev;F. Holsboer

Frequent Co-Authors

Nuno Sousa
Nuno Sousa University of Minho
Albert Herz
Albert Herz Max Planck Society
Florian Holsboer
Florian Holsboer Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
João José Cerqueira
João José Cerqueira University of Minho
Akihiko Takashima
Akihiko Takashima Gakushuin University
Luísa Pinto
Luísa Pinto University of Minho
Toni S. Shippenberg
Toni S. Shippenberg National Institute on Drug Abuse
Fernanda Marques
Fernanda Marques University of Minho
Christina Dalla
Christina Dalla National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society

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