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Paulo Mattos is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Their research spans several fields, including medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, with a focus on psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and clinical psychology, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, such as:

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Fatty Acid Research and Health

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include Felipe Kenji Sudo, Fernanda Tovar-Moll, Cláudia Drummond, Bart Vanderborght, and Naima Assunção.

Paulo Mattos has published multiple papers in prominent scientific venues. Selected recent publications are:

  • The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based conclusions about the disorder (2021), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Rapid Review and Meta-Meta-Analysis of Self-Guided Interventions to Address Anxiety, Depression, and Stress During COVID-19 Social Distancing (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • Association of Burnout With Depression and Anxiety in Critical Care Clinicians in Brazil (2020), JAMA Network Open
  • Cerebrospinal fluid irisin correlates with amyloid-β, BDNF, and cognition in Alzheimer's disease (2020), Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • Mind-wandering, depression, anxiety and ADHD: Disentangling the relationship (2020), Psychiatry Research

Their research has been frequently published in venues such as Alzheimer's & Dementia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, and Scientific Reports.

Paulo Mattos has also contributed to academic literature as an author of a book titled Guia de boas práticas acadêmicas (2021), published by Universidade Federal de São Paulo.

Best Publications

  • The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 Evidence-based Conclusions about the Disorder

    Stephen V. Faraone;Tobias Banaschewski;David Coghill;Yi Zheng

  • Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis

    Martine Hoogman;Janita Bralten;Derrek P. Hibar;Maarten Mennes

  • Exercise-linked FNDC5/irisin rescues synaptic plasticity and memory defects in Alzheimer's models

    Mychael V. Lourenco;Mychael V. Lourenco;Rudimar L. Frozza;Rudimar L. Frozza;Guilherme B. de Freitas;Guilherme B. de Freitas;Hong Zhang

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    Martine Hoogman;Janita Bralten;Derrek P. Hibar;Maarten Mennes

  • Brain Imaging of the Cortex in ADHD: A Coordinated Analysis of Large-Scale Clinical and Population-Based Samples

    Martine Hoogman;Ryan Muetzel;Joao P. Guimaraes;Elena Shumskaya

  • No Mundo da Lua: perguntas e respostas sobre transtorno do déficit de atenção com hiperatividade em crianças, adolescentes e adultos

    Paulo Mattos

  • Apresentação de uma versão em português para uso no Brasil do instrumento MTA-SNAP-IV de avaliação de sintomas de transtorno do déficit de atenção/hiperatividade e sintomas de transtorno desafiador e de oposição

    Paulo Mattos;Maria Antonia Serra-Pinheiro;Luis Augusto Rohde;Diana Pinto

  • Subcortical Brain Volume, Regional Cortical Thickness, and Cortical Surface Area Across Disorders: Findings From the ENIGMA ADHD, ASD, and OCD Working Groups

    Premika S W Boedhoe;Daan van Rooij;Martine Hoogman;Jos W R Twisk

  • Altered functional brain connectivity in a non-clinical sample of young adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Luca Cocchi;Ivanei E. Bramati;Andrew Zalesky;Emi Furukawa

  • International Variation in Treatment Procedures for ADHD: Social Context and Recent Trends

    Stephen P. Hinshaw;Richard M. Scheffler;Brent D. Fulton;Heidi Aase

  • Assessment of Executive Functions in Obese Individuals with Binge Eating Disorder

    Monica Duchesne;Paulo Mattos;José Carlos Appolinário;Silvia Regina de Freitas

  • Tradução e adaptação cultural da Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) para aplicação em adultos brasileiros

    Leandro Fernandes Malloy-Diniz;Paulo Mattos;Wellington Borges Leite;Neander Abreu

  • Adaptação transcultural para o português da escala Adult Self-Report Scale para avaliação do transtorno de déficit de atenção/hiperatividade (TDAH) em adultos

    Paulo Mattos;Daniel Segenreich;Eloísa Saboya;Eloísa Saboya;Mário Louzã

  • Neuropsicologia dos transtornos alimentares: revisão sistemática da literatura

    Monica Duchesne;Paulo Mattos;Leonardo F Fontenelle;Heloisa Veiga

  • The risk of eating disorders comorbid with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Bruno Palazzo Nazar;Bruno Palazzo Nazar;Camila Bernardes;Gemma Peachey;Joseph Sergeant

  • Memory complaints and test performance in healthy elderly persons.

    Paulo Mattos;Valéria Lino;Luciana Rizo;Ângela Alfano

  • Rapid Review and Meta-Meta-Analysis of Self-Guided Interventions to Address Anxiety, Depression, and Stress During COVID-19 Social Distancing.

    Ronald Fischer;Tiago Bortolini;Johannes Alfons Karl;Marcelo Zilberberg

  • Metabolic Syndrome and cognitive decline in the elderly: A systematic review.

    Naima Assuncao;Felipe Kenji Sudo;Claudia Drummond;Fernanda Guarino de Felice

  • Deficits in narrative discourse elicited by visual stimuli are already present in patients with mild cognitive impairment

    Cláudia Drummond;Gabriel Coutinho;Rochele Paz Fonseca;Naima Assunção

  • Eating Disorders Impact on Vigilance and Decision Making of a Community Sample of Treatment Naive Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Young Adults.

    Bruno Palazzo Nazar;Amanda Pompeu Trindade;Monica Leslie;Leandro Fernandes Malloy-Diniz

  • Assessment of executive functions in obese individuals with binge eating disorder Avaliação de funções executivas em indivíduos obesos com transtorno da compulsão alimentar periódica

    Monica Duchesne;Paulo Mattos;José Carlos Appolinário;Silvia Regina de Freitas

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernanda Tovar-Moll
Fernanda Tovar-Moll Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Leandro Fernandes Malloy-Diniz
Leandro Fernandes Malloy-Diniz Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Leonardo F. Fontenelle Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Jan Haavik
Jan Haavik University of Bergen
Luis Augusto Rohde
Luis Augusto Rohde Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Jan K. Buitelaar
Jan K. Buitelaar Radboud University
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Jaap Oosterlaan
Jaap Oosterlaan University of Amsterdam
Leanne Tamm
Leanne Tamm Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jonna Kuntsi
Jonna Kuntsi King's College London

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