Scientific Highlights
Papers:
DOMINGUES AV, Coimbra B, Correia R, Deseyve C, Floresco SB, Sousa N, Soares-Cunha C, Rodrigues AJ. Prenatal glucocorticoid exposure alters effort decision making and triggers nucleus accumbens and anterior cingulate cortex functional changes. Transl Psychiatry. 2022 Aug 19;12(1):338. doi: 10.1038/s41398-022-02043-4. IF: 6.8
Deseyve C* ,DOMINGUES AV*, Carvalho T.T.A*, Armada G, Correia R, Vieites-Gaspar N, Wezik M, Pinto L, Sousa N, Coimbra B, Rodrigues AJ Soares-Cunha C. Nucleus accumbens neurons dynamically respond to appetitive and aversive associative learning. Journal of Neurochemistry. 2024. Doi: 10.1111/jnc.16063. IF: 5.546
DOMINGUES AV*, Carvalho T.T.A*, Martins G.J, Correia R, Coimbra B, Gonçalves R, Wezik M, Gaspar R, Pinto L, Sousa N, Costa R.M, Soares-Cunha C, Rodrigues AJ. “Dynamic representation of appetitive and aversive stimuli in nucleus accumbens shell D1- and D2-medium spiny neurons”. Under revision Nat.commun
DOMINGUES AV, Rodrigues AJ Soares-Cunha C. A novel perspective on the role of nucleus accumbens neurons in encoding associative learning. Febs letters. 2023 Aug 29. doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.14727. IF: 3.864
DOMINGUES AV, Pereira IM, Vilaça-Faria H,Salgado AJ, Rodrigues AJ,Teixeira FG. 2020 “Glial cells in Parkinson´s disease: protective or deleterious?” Cell Mol Life Sci, 2020 Jul; IF: 9.261
Prizes
2019- Travel award for the ECNP workshop on Neuropsychopharmachology for Junior Scientists in Europe, March 2019, Nice, France
2019- PhD Fellowship, granted by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)
2022- Grant for Cajal course on Neural circuit basis of computation and behaviour, May, 2022
2022 – Travel award to attend ISN, granted by ISN
2024 – Travel award to attend FENS meeting, granted by SPN