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Overview

Paulo Caramelli is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil and has an extensive body of work in the field of medicine, with a particular focus on dementia and cognitive impairment research. Their research spans several subfields, including psychiatry and mental health, neurology, physiology, cognitive neuroscience, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The primary topics of Paulo Caramelli's work include:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Frequent co-authors of Paulo Caramelli are:

  • Leonardo Cruz de Souza
  • Ricardo Nitríni
  • Sônia Maria Dozzi Brucki
  • Cláudia Kimie Suemoto
  • Mônica Sanches Yassuda

The scientist has published regularly in the following journals and venues:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Dementia & Neuropsychologia
  • Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
  • Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Frontiers in Neurology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Paulo Caramelli include:

  • World-Wide FINGERS Network: A global approach to risk reduction and prevention of dementia, 2020, Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Pro-inflammatory interleukin-6 signaling links cognitive impairments and peripheral metabolic alterations in Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders, 2020, Brain
  • Alzheimer Disease as a Clinical-Biological Construct-An International Working Group Recommendation, 2024, JAMA Neurology
  • Dementia in Latin America: Paving the way toward a regional action plan, 2020, Alzheimer s & Dementia

Best Publications

  • Sugestões para o uso do mini-exame do estado mental no Brasil

    Sonia Brucki;Ricardo Nitrini;Paulo Caramelli;Paulo Henrique Ferreira Bertolucci

  • Epidemiologic survey of dementia in a community-dwelling Brazilian population.

    Emilio Herrera;Paulo Caramelli;Ana Silvia Barreiros Silveira;Ricardo Nitrini

  • World-Wide FINGERS Network: A global approach to risk reduction and prevention of dementia

    Miia Kivipelto;Francesca Mangialasche;Francesca Mangialasche;Heather M. Snyder;Ricardo Allegri

  • Prevalence of dementia in Latin America: a collaborative study of population-based cohorts.

    Ricardo Nitrini;Cássio M. C. Bottino;Cecilia Albala;Nilton Santos Custodio Capuñay

  • Parkinsonism and Parkinson's disease in the elderly: a community-based survey in Brazil (the Bambuí study).

    Maira Tonidandel Barbosa;Paulo Caramelli;Débora Palma Maia;Mauro César Quintão Cunningham

  • Performance of illiterate and literate nondemented elderly subjects in two tests of long-term memory

    Ricardo Nitrini;Paulo Caramelli;Emílio Herrera Júnior;Cláudia Sellitto Porto

  • Progress toward standardized diagnosis of vascular cognitive impairment: Guidelines from the Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study

    Olivia Skrobot;Sandra Black;Christopher Chen;Charles Decarli

  • Incidence of dementia in a community-dwelling Brazilian population.

    R. Nitrini;P. Caramelli;E. Herrera;V. S. Bahia

  • Pro-inflammatory interleukin-6 signaling links cognitive impairments and peripheral metabolic alterations in Alzheimer's disease.

    Natalia M. Lyra e Silva;Natalia M. Lyra e Silva;Rafaella A. Gonçalves;Rafaella A. Gonçalves;Rafaella A. Gonçalves;Tharick A. Pascoal;Ricardo A. S. Lima-Filho

  • Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders

    Simon Ducharme;Annemiek Dols;Robert Laforce;Emma Devenney

  • 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

  • Testes neuropsicológicos de aplicação simples para o diagnóstico de demência

    Ricardo Nitrini;Beatriz Helena Lefèvre;Sandra Cristina Mathias;Paulo Caramelli

  • Declínio da capacidade cognitiva durante o envelhecimento

    Helenice Charchat-Fichman;Paulo Caramelli;Koichi Sameshima;Ricardo Nitrini

  • The Vascular Impairment of Cognition Classification Consensus Study

    Olivia A. Skrobot;John T. O'brien;Sandra E. Black;Christopher Chen

  • Normative data for healthy elderly on the phonemic verbal fluency task - FAS.

    Thais Helena Machado;Helenice Charchat Fichman;Helenice Charchat Fichman;Etelvina Lucas Santos;Viviane Amaral Carvalho

  • Brazilian version of the Mattis dementia rating scale: diagnosis of mild dementia in Alzheimer's disease

    Cláudia S. Porto;Helenice Charchat Fichman;Paulo Caramelli;Valéria S. Bahia

  • Brazilian adaptation of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R)

    Viviane Amaral Carvalho;Paulo Caramelli;Paulo Caramelli

  • Brazilian version of the Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB): Preliminary data on administration to healthy elderly

    Rogério Gomes Beato;Ricardo Nitrini;Ana Paula Formigoni;Paulo Caramelli

  • Category fluency as a screening test for Alzheimer disease in illiterate and literate patients.

    Paulo Caramelli;Maria Teresa Carthery-Goulart;Cláudia Sellitto Porto;Helenice Charchat-Fichman

  • Long-term musical training may improve different forms of visual attention ability.

    Ana Carolina Rodrigues;Maurício Alves Loureiro;Paulo Caramelli

  • Wilson's disease: mri with clinical correlation

    A. C. A. Magalhaes;P. Caramelli;J. R. Menezes;L. S. Lo

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo Nitrini
Ricardo Nitrini Universidade de São Paulo
Antônio Lúcio Teixeira
Antônio Lúcio Teixeira The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Mônica Sanches Yassuda
Mônica Sanches Yassuda Universidade de São Paulo
Benito Pereira Damasceno
Benito Pereira Damasceno State University of Campinas
Michael Hornberger
Michael Hornberger University of East Anglia
Mario A. Parra
Mario A. Parra University of Strathclyde
Marcia Radanovic
Marcia Radanovic Universidade de São Paulo
Andréa C. LeBlanc
Andréa C. LeBlanc Jewish General Hospital
Olivier Piguet
Olivier Piguet University of Sydney
Mayana Zatz
Mayana Zatz Universidade de São Paulo

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