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Vasco Conceição has a PhD in Biomedical Sciences - Neurosciences (thesis title: 'The computational roles of dopamine and serotonin in Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder', concluded in January 2020 with the maximum classification), conceded by Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and a MSc in Biomedical Engineering (thesis title: 'Study of habit learning impairments in Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder using reinforcement learning models', concluded in November of 2014 with an average classification during the 2nd cycle of 18.31), conceded by Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal. Before, he completed the 12th Grade in Science & Technology at Escola Secundária Dr. Ginestal Machado, Santarém, Portugal, with an average grade of 19.33, which led him to receive 'Prémio de Mérito', an award attributed by the Portuguese Ministry of Education ('Ministério da Educação') to the student with the highest average grade of each school by the end of the 12th Grade. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, an invited assistant professor at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa (part-time, 30%), and the treasurer and a member of the scientific council of the Portuguese Tourette syndrome association ('Associação Portuguesa de Síndrome de Tourette - APST'). Vasco's research is encompassed in the emerging field of 'Computational Psychiatry', in which he plays an important role, as evidenced by his first authorship of a chapter in the 'Computational Psychiatry: A Primer' book from The MIT Press. Currently, Vasco is in close proximity with several world-renowned experts in his field, which helps to explain his ongoing collaborations with: 1) the Emotion and Development Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH; Besthesda, USA), where he was in 2015 and 2018 and where he still is an external collaborator; 2) the Translational Neuromodeling Unit (TNU; ETH Zurich, Switzerland), where he had a 'Residence with place of work' agreement between 2016 and 2018 and where he was a visiting scientist between November and December of 2015; 3) the Department of Psychiatry of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL; Barcelona, Spain), where he had contracts of supply of services in the scope of projects led by Dr. Carles Soriano-Mas in 2019 and 2020; 4) the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of Columbia University (New York, USA); and 5) the Neuropsychophysiology Lab of Universidade do Minho, Portugal. Vasco has 9 articles in peer-reviewed journals [1 in press and all others published between 2017 and 2021, 3 of which as either the first author or the second of two authors, in the first deciles in Neurosciences, and with 30 or more citations (Google Scholar)]. Some of the keywords that best characterize Vasco's work are: biological psychiatry, computational psychiatry, dopamine, obsessive-compulsive disorder, reinforcement learning, serotonin, statistics, and Tourette syndrome. His Google Scholar profile may be found at https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=ksr6yvcAAAAJ&hl.
Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo
Vasco Manuel Aranha da Conceição

Nomes de citação

  • Vasco A. Conceição

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID
8616-5268-7583
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2281-5748
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=ksr6yvcAAAAJ&hl
Researcher Id
F-4325-2018
Scopus Author Id
57195033520

Endereços de correio eletrónico

  • vasco.conceicao7@gmail.com (Profissional)
  • vasco.conceicao@medicina.ulisboa.pt (Profissional)

Websites

Domínios de atuação

  • Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologias - Outras Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologias - Outras áreas das Engenharias e Tecnologias

Idiomas

Idioma Conversação Leitura Escrita Compreensão Peer-review
Português (Idioma materno)
Inglês Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2) Utilizador proficiente (C2)
Formação
Grau Classificação
2015/01 - 2020/01
Concluído
Lisbon Biomedical and Clinical Research (LisbonBioMed) International PhD Program (Doutoramento)
Especialização em Biomedical Sciences - Neurosciences
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"The computational roles of dopamine and serotonin in Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
Approved with Distinction and Honors
2012/09 - 2014/11
Concluído
Integrated Master's Degree (MSc) in Biomedical Engineering - 2nd Cycle (Mestrado integrado)
Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Study of habit learning impairments in Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder using reinforcement learning models" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
18.31
2009/09 - 2012/06
Concluído
Integrated Master's Degree (MSc) in Biomedical Engineering - 1st Cycle (Mestrado integrado)
Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
16.86
2006/09 - 2009/07
Concluído
12th Grade in Science & Technology (Ensino secundário)
Escola Secundária Dr. Ginestal Machado, Portugal
19.33
Percurso profissional

Ciência

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento
Empregador
2020/01 - Atual Pós-doutorado (Investigação) Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2019/01 - 2020/01 Investigador (Investigação) Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2015/01 - 2018/12 Investigador (Investigação) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2015/11 - 2015/12 Investigador visitante (Investigação) Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Suiça
Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Suiça

Docência no Ensino Superior

Categoria Profissional
Instituição de acolhimento
Empregador
2020/10 - Atual Professor Auxiliar Convidado (Docente Universitário) Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/03 - 2020/10 Assistente Convidado (Docente Universitário) Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Projetos

Bolsa

Designação Financiadores
2020 - Atual State learning in the orbitofrontal cortex: a combined neuroimaging and computational psychiatry study in obsessive-compulsive disorder
PI19/01171
Outra
Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Espanha
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Em curso
2019 - 2019 Epigenetic and environmental factors bracing cognitive impairment and late-onset depression in elderly and early stages of Alzheimer disease
PIE14/00034
Outra
Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Espanha
Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Concluído

Projeto

Designação Financiadores
2019/11 - 2020/07 NIH - Reference 4464450 - Computational Psychiatry
HHSN271201700413P
Bolseiro de Investigação
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Concluído

Outro

Designação Financiadores
2012/10 - 2013/12 Habit learning disturbances in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
NA (Not Applicable)
Outra
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa
Concluído
Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista
  1. Carvalheiro, J.; Conceição, V.A.; Mesquita, A.. "Acute stress impairs reward learning in men". Brain and Cognition 147 (2021): 105657-105657. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105657.
    10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105657
  2. Morgadinho, J.; Pronto-Laborinho, A.C.; Conceição, V.A.; Gromicho, M.; Pinto, S.; Swash, M.; de Carvalho, M.. "Plasma creatinine level does not predict respiratory function in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis". Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases (2021):
    No prelo
  3. Vasco A. Conceição. "Can anti-dopamine D2 receptor autoantibodies explain fluctuations of tic severity?". Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.14626.
    10.1111/dmcn.14626
  4. Miltenberger-Miltenyi, G.; Cruz-Machado, A.R.; Saville, J.; Conceição, V.A.; Calado, A.; Lopes, I.; Fuller, M.; Eurico Fonseca, J.. "Increased monohexosylceramide levels in the serum of established rheumatoid arthritis patients". Rheumatology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kez545.
    10.1093/rheumatology/kez545
  5. Miltenberger-Miltenyi, G.; Conceição, V.A.; Gromicho, M.; Pronto-Laborinho, A.C.; Pinto, S.; De Carvalho, M.. "C9orf72 expansion is associated with accelerated decline of respiratory function and decreased survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis". Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 90 1 (2019): 118-120. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85049031008&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1136/jnnp-2018-318032
  6. Maia, T.V.; Conceição, V.A.. "Dopaminergic disturbances in Tourette syndrome: an integrative account". Biological Psychiatry 84 5 (2018): 332-344. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85045187809&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.02.1172
  7. Conceição, V.A.; Dias, Â.; Farinha, A.C.; Maia, T.V.. "Premonitory urges and tics in Tourette syndrome: computational mechanisms and neural correlates". Current Opinion in Neurobiology 46 (2017): 187-199. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85030678671&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.conb.2017.08.009
  8. Guedes, L.C.; Chan, R.B.; Gomes, M.A.; Conceição, V.A.; Machado, R.B.; Soares, T.; Xu, Y.; et al. "Serum lipid alterations in GBA-associated Parkinson's disease". Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 44 (2017): 58-65. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85028846284&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.parkreldis.2017.08.026
  9. Maia, T.V.; Conceição, V.A.. "The roles of phasic and tonic dopamine in tic learning and expression". Biological Psychiatry 82 6 (2017): 401-412. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85024915785&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.05.025
Capítulo de livro
  1. Conceição, V.A.; Maia, T.V.. "Tourette Syndrome from a Computational Perspective". In Computational Psychiatry: A Primer, editado por Peggy Sèries, 205-246. Cambridge, Estados Unidos: The MIT Press, 2020.
    Publicado
Documento de trabalho
  1. Carvalheiro, J.; Conceição, V.A.; Mesquita, A.; Seara-Cardoso, A.. 2021. "Acute stress blunts prediction error signals in the dorsal striatum during reinforcement learning". https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.11.430640v1.
    10.1101/2021.02.11.430640
Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

Título da apresentação Nome do evento
Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2018/11/09 Síndrome de Tourette: Uma abordagem de psiquiatria computacional (ENG: 'Tourette syndrome: A computational-psychiatry approach') Jornadas de Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental - Psiquiatria 2.0 Novas Tecnologias, Nova Psiquiatria?
Hospital Beatriz Ângelo; Hospital da Luz - Learning Health (Lisboa, Portugal)

Organização de evento

Nome do evento
Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)
Instituição / Organização
2019 - 2019 Encontro Anual da Associação Portuguesa de Síndrome de Tourette - APST (ENG: 'Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Tourette Syndrome Association - APST'). This meeting, organized by APST, involved clinicians, psychologists, researchers, and patients with Tourette syndrome, as well as their relatives and friends. In addition to playing a key role in the organization of the meeting, I was one of the main speakers. My talk lasted 1 hour and was entitled 'Síndrome de Tourette: desafios na investigação' (ENG: 'Tourette syndrome: research challenges'). (2019/12/28 - 2019/12/28)
Encontro (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
Associação Portuguesa de Síndrome de Tourette, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Organization of the 10th iMM/CAML PhD Retreat. This was a yearly retreat that was made available to all Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM) community and to all PhD students affiliated with Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa (CAML). (2017/10/12 - 2017/10/14)
Outro (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Organization of the 9th iMM/CAML PhD Retreat (2016/09/29 - 2016/10/01)
Outro (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
2013 - 2013 Organization of the 'II Jornadas da Engenharia Biomédica – IST/FMUL'. This was the second edition of a meeting that was organized on a yearly basis by NEBM-IST. It consisted of a series of scientific talks and networking activities, and it was targeted at students from the MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. The main goals of the meeting were to instruct students about 1) possible applications of biomedical engineering in industry and research and 2) different paths that they could explore to attain their professional goals. (2013/03/06 - 2013/03/07)
Encontro (Membro da Comissão Organizadora)
Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Participação em evento

Descrição da atividade
Tipo de evento
Nome do evento
Instituição / Organização
2019/06/12 - 2019/06/12 Participation in a mini-symposium on Tourette syndrome, organized by Associação Portuguesa de Síndrome de Tourette - APST. APST promotes several talks and meetings all over Portugal (mostly in schools). This event was one of the most relevant. It occurred in Peso da Régua (with strong support from the City Hall), and it involved ~100 participants. The full meeting lasted 2 to 3 hours. My talk, which lasted approximately 1 hour, was entitled 'Síndrome de Tourette: Testemunho de um Investigador' (ENG: 'Tourette syndrome: A researcher's perspective').
Simpósio
Síndrome de Tourette: Ação de Informação (ENG: 'An informative session on Tourette syndrome')
Associação Portuguesa de Síndrome de Tourette, Portugal
2018/09/10 - 2018/09/14 Participation in the 4th Edition of the Computational Psychiatry Course. This is (one of) the best course(s) on computational psychiatry in the world. Computational psychiatry requires translational knowledge on a broad spectrum of fields, such as psychiatry, computational modeling, (functional) neuroimaging, and machine learning and statistics. All those fields are addressed in this course, which is organized on a yearly basis by the Translational Neuromodeling Unit, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Outro
Computational Psychiatry Course
Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Suiça
2017/09/25 - 2017/09/29 Participation in SynaNet's Behavioural Models of Disease Summer School Seminar Programme & Becoming an Effective Researcher Career Development Workshop, at Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom. SynaNet (short for 'Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders: from synapses to networks') was a consortium that encompassed Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa. It aimed at promoting collaborative research by enhancing, e.g., effective knowledge transfer.
Outro
Behavioural Models of Disease Summer School Seminar Programme & Becoming an Effective Researcher Career Development Workshop
Lancaster University, Reino Unido
2017/06/07 - 2017/06/09 Participation in SynaNet workshop on Neuroimaging, at University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Oficina (workshop)
SynaNet workshop on Neuroimaging
University of Eastern Finland, Finlândia
2016/08/29 - 2016/09/02 Participation in the 2nd Edition of the Computational Psychiatry Course
Outro
Computational Psychiatry Course
Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Suiça
2015/12/12 - 2015/12/15 Participation in the 1st Edition of the Computational Psychiatry Course
Outro
Computational Psychiatry Course
Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Suiça
2012/11/26 - 2012/11/30 Participation in the Lisbon Reinforcement Learning and Neuroscience Course, at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisboa, Portugal, which was lectured by some of the top researchers in computational psychiatry in the world (e.g., Doctor Nathaniel Daw).
Outro
Lisbon Reinforcement Learning and Neuroscience Course
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
2003/03/26 - 2003/03/26 Santarém district winner of Jogo do 24 (ENG: '24 Game'). 24 Game is a mental calculus game that was played by students from all over the country. I was selected in 2002 and 2003, together with some colleagues, to represent Escola Básica Mem Ramires, Santarém, Portugal, in the district finals, which enrolled students in the 5th or 6th grades from all over the Santarém district. In my second year (2003), I won the district final, and I was selected, together with the second placed student, to represent the Santarém district in the National final.
Outro
Jogo do 24: Final Distrital (ENG: '24 Game: District Final')
Cheetos, Portugal

Júri de grau académico

Tema
Tipo de participação
Nome do candidato (Tipo de grau)
Instituição / Organização
2021/02/24 Episodic and Semantic memories in Cognitive Planning: Evidence from a two-stage decision task
Arguente
Inês Alexandra Ribeiro Lopes Alves (Mestrado)
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Arbitragem científica em revista

Nome da revista (ISSN) Editora
2020/09 - Atual PLOS One (1932-6203) Public Library of Science
2019/11 - Atual Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology (1469-8749) Wiley
2019/07 - Atual Cortex (0010-9452) Elsevier
2019/03 - Atual Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging (0925-4927) Elsevier
2019/02 - Atual Computational Psychiatry (2379-6227) MIT Press
2018/07 - Atual PLoS Computational Biology (1553-7358) Public Library of Science

Entrevista (jornal / revista)

Descrição da atividade Jornal / Forum
2019/12 I was interviewed by Diana Rodrigues, from Record TV Europa, because of my participation in Associação Portuguesa de Síndrome de Tourette (APST), in which I am the treasurer and a member of the scientific council, and because of my work as a researcher. My interview was integrated with those from patients with Tourette syndrome and other APST members, yielding both 1) a small documentary on Tourette syndrome, which aired on the 'Fala Portugal' show on November of 2019 (as detailed elsewhere), and 2) the news article mentioned here (Share Magazine). Share Magazine
2019 I was interviewed by Ana Tulha, from Notícias Magazine, because of my participation in Associação Portuguesa de Síndrome de Tourette (APST) and my work as a researcher. My interview was integrated with those from patients with Tourette syndrome and other APST members, and the resulting text was published in July of 2019. Notícias Magazine

Entrevista / Programa (rádio / tv)

Programa Tema
2019/11 - 2019/11 Fala Portugal (report: 'Tourette: Uma Vida de Tiques') Tourette syndrome

Membro de associação

Nome da associação Tipo de participação
2019/04 - Atual Associação Portuguesa de Síndrome de Tourette - APST Treasurer (and member of the scientific council)
2012 - 2013 Member of Núcleo de Engenharia Biomédica do Instituto Superior Técnico (NEBM-IST), an organization entirely composed of students undergoing the 1st or 2nd cycles of the MSc in Biomedical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. NEBM-IST organizes several programming workshops (on Java, LaTeX, MATLAB, etc.), out-of-the box talks, and social activities, during the year. It also organizes a yearly meeting encompassing both scientific and non-scientific activities. In 2013, such meeting was designated 'II Jornadas Engenharia Biomédica - IST / FMUL'. Member of the 'Information Technology' department
Distinções

Prémio

2009 Prémio de Mérito (ENG: 'Merit Award')
Ministério da Educação, Portugal