Raquel Correia is a PhD student under supervision of Ana João Rodrigues and Carina Soares-Cunha. Her work focus on how the neuronal ensembles of the nucleus accumbens and the ventral pallidum encode and respond to positive (rewarding) and negative (aversive) events. To answer this question, she is using innovative techniques such as calcium imaging and optogenetics.
Raquel Correia holds a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry recognized by the University of Coimbra and a master’s in Health Sciences attributed by the University of Minho. During her master’s thesis, she studied the involvement of specific neuronal pathways of the reward circuit in the development of anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors by taking advantage of optogenetic tools.
Along her scientific path, Raquel Correia has gained experience in a broad range of techniques, namely intracranial surgeries for viral delivery, optogenetics, in vivo electrophysiology, animal behavior, colony breeding/management, immunofluorescence, and microscopy.
Her ability to work in a team and her persuasion demonstrated so far resulted in the publication of some original scientific articles, published in scientific journals such as “Cell Reports”, “Journal of Neuroscience Research” and “Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health” and several scientific posters, of which she highlights the presentation of a scientific poster in the iMed Competition 12.0.
Raquel Correia is a PhD student under supervision of Ana João Rodrigues and Carina Soares-Cunha. Her work focus on how the neuronal ensembles of the nucleus accumbens and the ventral pallidum encode and respond to positive (rewarding) and negative (aversive) events. To answer this question, she is using innovative techniques such as calcium imaging and optogenetics.
Raquel Correia holds a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry recognized by the University of Coimbra and a master’s in Health Sciences attributed by the University of Minho. During her master’s thesis, she studied the involvement of specific neuronal pathways of the reward circuit in the development of anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors by taking advantage of optogenetic tools.
Along her scientific path, Raquel Correia has gained experience in a broad range of techniques, namely intracranial surgeries for viral delivery, optogenetics, in vivo electrophysiology, animal behavior, colony breeding/management, immunofluorescence, and microscopy.
Her ability to work in a team and her persuasion demonstrated so far resulted in the publication of some original scientific articles, published in scientific journals such as “Cell Reports”, “Journal of Neuroscience Research” and “Brain, Behavior, & Immunity-Health” and several scientific posters, of which she highlights the presentation of a scientific poster in the iMed Competition 12.0.
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The brain constantly integrates new sensory information, and associates environmental cues to outcomes, adjusting behavior to maximize reward and minimize unpleasant consequences. This process is critical for survival, and its dysregulation is a hallmark of…
Since the moment we wake up, we are continuously flooded with sensory information of variable relevance. Therefore, our brains evolved to filter information…
Through evolution, animals gained the remarkable ability to respond with sub second precision to environmental stimuli and to learn to associate those with positive or negative outcomes…
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Life and Health Sciences
Research Institute (ICVS)
School of Medicine,
University of Minho,
Campus de Gualtar
4710-057 Braga
Portugal
Copyright ©2022 ICVS. All Rights Reserved
Life and Health Sciences
Research Institute (ICVS)
School of Medicine,
University of Minho,
Campus de Gualtar
4710-057 Braga
Portugal
