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Ricardo Mario Arida is affiliated with the Federal University of Sao Paulo in Brazil and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields such as Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Neurology, and Rehabilitation.

The primary focus of Ricardo Mario Arida's work involves topics including Epilepsy research and treatment, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Tryptophan and brain disorders, and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Lavínia Teixeira-Machado, Sérgio Gomes da Silva, Robson Campos Gutierre, Beatriz M. Longo, and Antônio Augusto Coppi Maciel Ribeiro.

Ricardo Mario Arida's recent papers demonstrate a focus on physical exercise, brain resilience, and neurological conditions. These include:

  • The Contribution of Physical Exercise to Brain Resilience, 2021, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Dance promotes positive benefits for negative symptoms in autism spectrum disorder (ASD): A systematic review, 2020, Complementary Therapies in Medicine
  • Resistance Exercise Decreases Amyloid Load and Modulates Inflammatory Responses in the APP/PS1 Mouse Model for Alzheimer's Disease, 2020, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • Physical exercise and seizure activity, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease
  • The effects of resistance exercise on cognitive function, amyloidogenesis, and neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease, 2023, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Research outputs by Ricardo Mario Arida have been published frequently in venues such as Epilepsy & Behavior, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Physical exercise as an epigenetic modulator of brain plasticity and cognition.

    Jansen Fernandes;Ricardo Mario Arida;Fernando Gomez-Pinilla

  • The pilocarpine model of epilepsy: what have we learned?

    Fulvio A Scorza;Ricardo M Arida;Maria da Graça Naffah-Mazzacoratti;Débora A Scerni

  • Epilepsy, seizures, physical exercise, and sports: A report from the ILAE Task Force on Sports and Epilepsy

    Giuseppe Capovilla;Kenneth R. Kaufman;Emilio Perucca;Solomon L. Moshé

  • Effect of physical exercise on seizure occurrence in a model of temporal lobe epilepsy in rats.

    Ricardo Mario Arida;Fulvio Alexandre Scorza;Neide Ferreira dos Santos;Clovisde Araujo Peres

  • Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry Re.: omega-3 fatty acids and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: what does the evidence tell us?

    Fulvio A. Scorza;Roberta M. Cysneiros;Ricardo M. Arida;Marly de Albuquerque

  • The course of untreated seizures in the pilocarpine model of epilepsy.

    Ricardo Mario Arida;Fulvio Alexandre Scorza;Clovis de Araujo Peres;Esper Abrão Cavalheiro

  • Early exercise promotes positive hippocampal plasticity and improves spatial memory in the adult life of rats.

    Sérgio Gomes da Silva;Nicolas Unsain;Daniel Hugo Mascó;Michelle Toscano-Silva

  • Physical Activity and Epilepsy Proven and Predicted Benefits

    Ricardo M Arida;Esper A Cavalheiro;Antonio C da Silva;Fulvio A Scorza

  • Differential effects of spontaneous versus forced exercise in rats on the staining of parvalbumin-positive neurons in the hippocampal formation.

    Ricardo Mario Arida;Ricardo Mario Arida;Carla Alessandra Scorza;Alexandre Valotta da Silva;Fulvio Alexandre Scorza;Fulvio Alexandre Scorza

  • Evaluation of physical activity habits in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder

    Marcio Antonio de Assis;Marcelo Feijó de Mello;Fulvio Alexandre Scorza;Mariana Pupo Cadrobbi

  • Effect of physical exercise on kindling development

    Ricardo Mario Arida;Andrea de Jesus Vieira;Esper Abrão Cavalheiro

  • Exercise-induced hippocampal anti-inflammatory response in aged rats.

    Sérgio Gomes da Silva;Priscila Santos Rodrigues Simões;Renato Arruda Mortara;Fulvio Alexandre Scorza

  • Dance for neuroplasticity: A descriptive systematic review.

    Lavinia Teixeira-Machado;Ricardo Mario Arida;Jair de Jesus Mari

  • Evaluation of physical exercise habits in Brazilian patients with epilepsy

    Ricardo Mario Arida;Fulvio Alexandre Scorza;Fulvio Alexandre Scorza;Marly de Albuquerque;Roberta Monterazzo Cysneiros

  • The Contribution of Physical Exercise to Brain Resilience.

    Ricardo Mario Arida;Lavinia Teixeira-Machado

  • Acute strength exercise and the involvement of small or large muscle mass on plasma brain‐derived neurotrophic factor levels

    Paulo Roberto Correia;Aline Priscila Pansani;Felipe Machado;Marilia dos Santos Andrade

  • Experimental and clinical findings from physical exercise as complementary therapy for epilepsy.

    Ricardo Mario Arida;Antonio-Carlos Guimarães de Almeida;Esper Abrão Cavalheiro;Fulvio Alexandre Scorza

  • Effects of different types of physical exercise on the staining of parvalbumin-positive neurons in the hippocampal formation of rats with epilepsy.

    Ricardo Mario Arida;Carla Alessandra Scorza;Fulvio Alexandre Scorza;Sergio Gomes da Silva

  • Inflammation and adipose tissue: effects of progressive load training in rats

    Fabio Santos de Lira;Jose C. Rosa;Gustavo Duarte Pimentel;Victor A. F. Tarini

  • Physical training reverts hippocampal electrophysiological changes in rats submitted to the pilocarpine model of epilepsy.

    Ricardo Mario Arida;Emilio Rafael Garrido Sanabria;Andre Cesar da Silva;Leonardo Coutinho Faria

  • Maternal Exercise during Pregnancy Increases BDNF Levels and Cell Numbers in the Hippocampal Formation but Not in the Cerebral Cortex of Adult Rat Offspring.

    Sérgio Gomes da Silva;Sérgio Gomes da Silva;Sérgio Gomes da Silva;Alexandre Aparecido de Almeida;Jansen Fernandes;Glauber Menezes Lopim

Frequent Co-Authors

Fulvio A. Scorza
Fulvio A. Scorza Federal University of Sao Paulo
Esper A. Cavalheiro
Esper A. Cavalheiro Federal University of Sao Paulo
Maria da Graça Naffah-Mazzacoratti
Maria da Graça Naffah-Mazzacoratti Federal University of Sao Paulo
Américo Ceiki Sakamoto
Américo Ceiki Sakamoto Universidade de São Paulo
Roberto Lent
Roberto Lent Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Fernando Gomez-Pinilla
Fernando Gomez-Pinilla University of California, Los Angeles
Roberto Frussa-Filho
Roberto Frussa-Filho Federal University of Sao Paulo
Josemir W. Sander
Josemir W. Sander University College London
Solomon L. Moshé
Solomon L. Moshé Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Elza Márcia Targas Yacubian
Elza Márcia Targas Yacubian Federal University of Sao Paulo

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