Diana Marina Fonseca Rodrigues is currently a PhD student at the Neuroscience Research Domain of the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), exploring the cellular, molecular, and electrophysiological changes to the brainstem induced by experimental monoarthritis. Previously a research fellow at ICVS, focusing on the pharmacological testing of novel drugs in the control of pain and comorbid emotional impairments. She concluded her MSc in Health Sciences (School of Medicine of the University of Minho) in 2019, and her dissertation focused on sex-specific differences on neuropathic pain development as well as in comorbid emotional and electrophysiological impairments. She graduated in Biochemistry (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto) in 2017, during which she was involved in a project with a special focus on the development of new epileptogenesis makers through molecular biology techniques at the UMIB – Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine of the University of Porto. She is the author of 5 papers.
Diana Marina Fonseca Rodrigues is currently a PhD student at the Neuroscience Research Domain of the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), exploring the cellular, molecular, and electrophysiological changes to the brainstem induced by experimental monoarthritis. Previously a research fellow at ICVS, focusing on the pharmacological testing of novel drugs in the control of pain and comorbid emotional impairments. She concluded her MSc in Health Sciences (School of Medicine of the University of Minho) in 2019, and her dissertation focused on sex-specific differences on neuropathic pain development as well as in comorbid emotional and electrophysiological impairments. She graduated in Biochemistry (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto) in 2017, during which she was involved in a project with a special focus on the development of new epileptogenesis makers through molecular biology techniques at the UMIB – Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine of the University of Porto. She is the author of 5 papers.
Prizes: Grunenthal Young Researchers in Pain (2022) Grants: FCT PhD grant (2022). Publications: Fonseca-Rodrigues, D., Almeida, A., & Pinto-Ribeiro, F. (2022). A New Gal in Town: A Systematic Review of the Role of Galanin and Its Receptors in Experimental Pain. Cells, 11(5), 839. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11050839; Fonseca-Rodrigues, D., Gonçalves, J., Laranjeira, I., Almeida, A., & Pinto-Ribeiro, F. (2022). Sucrose intake and preference by Wistar Han rats are not influenced by sex or food/water deprivation. Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 216, 173387. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbb.2022.173387; Fonseca-Rodrigues, D., Rodrigues, A., Martins, T., Pinto, J., Amorim, D., Almeida, A., & Pinto-Ribeiro, F. (2021). Correlation between pain severity and levels of anxiety and depression in osteoarthritis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 61(1), 53–75. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keab512; Fonseca-Rodrigues, D., Laranjeira, I., Barbosa, J., Lamas, N. J., Amorim, D., Almeida, A., & Pinto-Ribeiro, F. (2021). Nociceptive, emotional, electrophysiological, and histological characterization of the chronic constriction injury model in female Wistar Han rats. Brain research bulletin, 167, 56–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2020.11.018; Fonseca-Rodrigues, D., Amorim, D., Almeida, A., & Pinto-Ribeiro, F. (2021). Emotional and cognitive impairments in the peripheral nerve chronic constriction injury model (CCI) of neuropathic pain: A systematic review. Behavioural brain research, 399, 113008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2020.113008
Functional studies showed a critical role of descending facilitation in the establishment of pain chronicity. While the electrophysiological properties of brainstem areas have been extensively studied…
a series of projects where drugs and their derivatives recently developed or used mainly for other pathologies were tested for their potential antidepressant and anxyolitic characteristics.
Phone: +351 253 604 967
Fax: +351 253 604 809
Email: icvs.sec@med.uminho.pt
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
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
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
