Estas recentes publicações científicas são um exemplo de descobertas que resultaram dos vários projetos a decorrer na nossa equipa.
A colaboração de voluntários foi essencial para o sucesso destes estudos.


Parahippocampal deactivation and hyperactivation of central executive, saliency and social cognition networks in autism spectrum disorder

Mouga S, Duarte C, Café C, Sousa D, Duque F, Oliveira G, Castelo-Branco M

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 2022 Janeiro


Sex-Dependent Social and Repetitive Behavior and Neurochemical Profile in Mouse Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder

Ferreira H, Sousa AC, Sereno J, Martins J, Castelo-Branco M, Gonçalves J

Metabolites. 2022 Janeiro


Fleeting: a Novel Ultrasonic Vocalization in Mice That Allows to Define Altered Developmental Milestones in Autism Spectrum Disorder (Preprint)

Ferreira H, Sousa S, Martins J, Castelo-Branco M, Gonçalves J

Research Square (Preprint). 2022 Janeiro


Attentional Cueing and Executive Deficits Revealed by a Virtual Supermarket Task Coupled With Eye-Tracking in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Mouga S, Duarte I, Café C, Sousa D, Duque F, Oliveira G, Castelo-Branco M

Frontiers in Psychology. 2021 Agosto


Training the social brain: Clinical and neural effects of an 8-week real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging neurofeedback Phase IIa Clinical Trial in Autism

Direito B, Mouga S, Sayal A, Simões M, Quental H, Bernardino I, Playle R, McNamara R, Linden D, Oliveira G, Castelo-Branco M

Autism. 2021 Agosto


Social Attention Deficits in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Task Dependence of Objects vs. Faces Observation Bias

Mouga S, Castelhano J, Café C, Sousa D, Duque F, Oliveira G, Castelo-Branco M

Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2021 Março


Virtual Reality Immersion Rescales Regulation of Interpersonal Distance in Controls but not in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Simões M, Mouga S, Pereira AC, Carvalho P, Oliveira G, Castelo-Branco M

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2020 Dezembro


Language Predictors in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Insights from Neurodevelopmental Profile in a Longitudinal Perspective

Mouga S, Correia B, Café C, Duque F, Oliveira G

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 2020 Janeiro


Targeting dynamic facial processing mechanisms in superior temporal sulcus using a novel fMRI neurofeedback target

Direito B, Lima J, Simões M, Sayal A, Sousa T, Luehrs M, Ferreira C, Castelo-Branco M

Neuroscience. 2019 Maio


Impulsivity across reactive, proactive and cognitive domains in Parkinson's disease on dopaminergic medication: Evidence for multiple domain impairment

Canário N, Sousa M, Moreira F, Duarte IC, Oliveira F, Januário C, Castelo-Branco M.

Plos One. 2019 Fevereiro


Tracking perceptual decision mechanisms through changes in interhemispheric functional connectivity in human visual cortex

Teresa Sousa, João V. Duarte, Gabriel N. Costa, Valentin G. Kemper, Ricardo Martins, Rainer Goebel & Miguel Castelo-Branco

Scientific Reports. 2019 Fevereiro



A Novel Biomarker of Compensatory Recruitment of Face Emotional Imagery Networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Simões M, Monteiro R, Andrade J, Mouga S, França F, Oliveira G, Carvalho P, Castelo-Branco M.

Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2018 Novembro


BCIAUT-P300: A Multi-Session and Multi-Subject Benchmark Dataset on Autism for P300-Based Brain-Computer-Interfaces

Simões M, Borra D, Santamaría-Vázquez E, GBT-UPM, Bittencourt-Villalpando M, Krzeminski D, Miladinovic A, Neural_Engineering_Group, Schmid T, Zhao H, Amaral C, Direito B, Henriques J, Carvalho P, Castelo-Branco M

Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2018 Setembro


Data driven diagnostic classification in Alzheimer's disease based on different reference regions for normalization of PiB-PET images and correlation with CSF concentrations of Aβ species

Oliveira F, Leuzy A, Castelhano J, Chiotis K, Hasselbalch SG, Rinne J, Mendonça A, Otto M, Lleó A, Santana I, Johansson J, Anderl-Straub S, Arnim C, Beer A, Blesa R, Fortea J, Sanna-Kaisa H, Portelius E, Pannee J, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Moreira AP, Abrunhosa A, Nordberg A, Castelo-Branco M.

NeuroImage: Clinical. 2018 Agosto


The role of Prefrontal Cortex in a Battle of the Sexes Dilemma involving a Conflict between Tribal and Romantic love

Duarte IC, Brito-Costa S, Cayolla R, Castelo-Branco M

Scientific Reports volume. 2018 Agosto


Can 11C-PiB-PET Relative Delivery R1 or 11C-PiB-PET Perfusion Replace 18F-FDG-PET in the Assessment of Brain Neurodegeneration?

Oliveira FPM, Moreira AP, de Mendonça A, Verdelho A, Xavier C, Barroca D, Rio J, Cardoso E, Cruz Â, Abrunhosa A, Castelo-Branco M

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 2018 Agosto


A Feasibility Clinical Trial to Improve Social Attention in Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Using a Brain Computer Interface

Amaral C, Mouga S, Simões M, Pereira HC, Bernardino I, Quental H, Playle R, McNamara R, Oliveira G, Castelo-Branco M

Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2018 Julho


The role of the insula in intuitive expert bug detection in computer code: an fMRI study

Castelhano J, Duarte IC, Ferreira C, Duraes J, Madeira H, Castelo-Branco M

Brain Imaging and Behavior. 2018 Maio


Stimulus dependent neural oscillatory patterns show reliable statistical identification of autism spectrum disorder in a face perceptual decision task

Castelhano J, Tavares P, Mouga S, Oliveira G, Castelo-Branco M

Clinical Neurophysiology. 2018 Maio


Virtual Travel Training for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Proof-of-Concept Interventional Study

Simões M, Bernardes M, Barros F, Castelo-Branco M

JMIR Serius Games. 2018 Março


Medial Frontal Lobe Neurochemistry in Autism Spectrum Disorder is Marked by Reduced N-Acetylaspartate and Unchanged Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid and Glutamate + Glutamine Levels

Carvalho Pereira A, Violante IR, Mouga S, Oliveira G, Castelo-Branco M

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2017 Novembro


A novel Brain Computer Interface for classification of social joint attention in autism and comparison of 3 experimental setups: A feasibility study

Amaral CP, Simões MA, Mouga S, Andrade J, Castelo-Branco M

Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2017 Outubro


Testing the excitation/inhibition imbalance hypothesis in a mouse model of the autism spectrum disorder: in vivo neurospectroscopy and molecular evidence for regional phenotypes

Gonçalves J, Violante I, Sereno J, Leitão R, Cai Y, Abrunhosa A, Silva AP, Silva AJ, Castelo-Branco M

Molecular Autism. 2017 Setembro


Pivotal role of hMT+ in long‐range disambiguation of interhemispheric bistable surface motion

Duarte JV, Costa GN, Martins R, Castelo-Branco M

Human Brain Mapping. 2017 Junho


Pure visual imagery as a potential approach to achieve three classes of control for implementation of BCI in non-motor disorders

Sousa T, Amaral C, Andrade J, Pires G, Nunes UJ, Castelo-Branco M

Journal of Neural Engineering. 2017 Junho


Tribal love: the neural correlates of passionate engagement in football fans

Duarte IC, Afonso S, Jorge H, Cayolla R, Ferreira C, Castelo-Branco M

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2017 Maio


Improved Cerebrospinal Fluid-Based Discrimination between Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Controls after Correction for Ventricular Volumes

van Waalwijk van Doorn LJ, Gispert JD, Kuiperij HB, Claassen JA, Arighi A, Baldeiras I, Blennow K, Bozzali M, Castelo-Branco M, Cavedo E, et al.

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 2017 Janeiro


Intellectual Profiles in the Autism Spectrum and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Mouga S, Café C, Almeida J, Marques C, Duque F, Oliveira G

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2016 Setembro


GABA deficiency in NF1: A multimodal [11C]-flumazenil and spectroscopy study.

Violante IR, Patricio M, Bernardino I, Rebola J, Abrunhosa AJ, Ferreira N, Castelo-Branco M

Neurology. 2016 Agosto


Preserved face inversion effects in adults with autism spectrum disorder: an event-related potential study

Tavares PP, Mouga S, Oliveira G, Castelo-Branco M

Neuroreport. 2016 Maio


Control of Brain Activity in hMT+/V5 at Three Response Levels Using fMRI-Based Neurofeedback/BCI

Sousa T, Direito B, Lima J, Ferreira C, Nunes U, Castelo-Branco M

Plos One. 2016 Maio


Adaptive profiles in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders

Mouga S, Almeida J, Café C, Duque F, Oliveira G

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2015 Abril


A direct comparison of local-global integration in autism and other developmental disorders: implications for the central coherence hypothesis

Bernardino I, Moiga S, Almeida J, van Asselen M, Oliveira G, Castelo-Branco M

PlosOne. 2012 Junho