Teresa Maria da Silva Sousa (921A-4C43-3CE6)

Curriculum Vitae

Teresa Maria da Silva Sousa

Teresa investigates the neural dynamics of disease to identify personalized intervention targets for neurorehabilitation and to promote advanced neurotherapeutic approaches. She has extensive experience integrating functional neuroimaging with real-time data analysis to develop non-pharmacological therapeutics based on neuromodulation. Teresa holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Coimbra (2017), completed in collaboration with the University of Maastricht, as well as Master's and Bachelor's degrees in the same field from the University of Minho (2010). She is currently an Assistant Researcher at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra.

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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Teresa Maria da Silva Sousa

Nomes de citação

Sousa, T.

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: 921A-4C43-3CE6
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2652-3152
Google Scholar ID: HRgM6cgAAAAJ

Endereços de correio eletrónico

tsousa@uc.pt (Profissional)

Moradas

ICNAS - Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Pólo das Ciências da Saúde, Universidade de Coimbra, 3000-548, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, Coimbra, Portugal (Profissional)

Domínios de atuação

Ciências da Engenharia e Tecnologias - Engenharia Médica
Ciências Médicas e da Saúde - Ciências da Saúde
Ciências Exatas - Física

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2017/03/03 Concluído	PhD in Biomedical Engineering (Doutoramento) Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal "From parametric decoding of simple mental states to neurofeedback: insights into the neuroscience of cognitive control" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)
2010/11/25 Concluído	Integrated Master in Biomedical Engineering (Mestrado integrado) Especialização em Medical Electronics School of Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal "The impact of rhythms analysis technique on electrographic seizure detection" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)

Percurso profissional

Ciência

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2024 - Atual	Investigador Auxiliar (carreira) (Investigação)	Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal

2021 - Atual	Investigador (Investigação)	Intelligent Systems Associate Laboratory (LASI), Portugal

2019 - 2024	Investigador Contratado (Investigação)	Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal
	Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT), Portugal
2017/06 - 2018/12	Pós-doutorado (Investigação)	Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal

2016/03 - 2017/05	Investigador (Investigação)	Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal

2012/01 - 2015/12	Investigador (Investigação)	IBILI and ISR (University of Coimbra), Portugal
	IBILI - Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal (...)
2014/10 - 2015/08	Investigador visitante (Investigação)	Maastricht Brain Imaging Center - University of Maastricht, Países Baixos

2010/12 - 2011/12	Investigador (Investigação)	Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR-UC), University of Coimbra, Portugal

2009/09 - 2010/08	Estagiário de Investigação (Investigação)	Neurophysiology Service, S. João Hospital , Portugal

Docência no Ensino Superior

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2019/09 - 2022/03	Professor Adjunto Convidado (Docente Ensino Superior Politécnico)	Mathematics and Physics Department, Coimbra Institute of Engineering, Portugal

Projetos

Bolsa

	Designação	Financiadores
2022 - Atual	Testing functional neuroplasticity in pathologic impulsivity: a combined virtual-reality and brain-computer interface approach 2021.01469.CEECIND Investigador Pós-doutorado	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2012/01 - 2015/12	From parametric decoding of simple mental states to neurofeedback: insights into the neuroscience of cognitive control SFRH/BD/80735/2011 Bolseiro de Doutoramento University of Coimbra, Portugal	Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology Concluído

Projeto

	Designação	Financiadores
2023 - 2024	[Neuromod-OCD]: Volitional neuromodulation as a potential therapeutic approach for OCD 2022.04701.PTDC Investigador responsável	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2019/11 - 2022/05	The neural circuitry underlying error monitoring during social cognition 306/2018 Investigador responsável Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal CIBIT-UC: Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research, University of Coimbra, Portugal	BIAL Foundation Em curso
2019/01 - 2022/01	Effective brain connectivity of decision and error monitoring circuits in health and disease: from neurocognition to brain-computer interfaces PTDC/PSI-GER/30852/2017 Investigador Pós-doutorado Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal CIBIT-UC: Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology Em curso
2017/11 - 2019/10	The role of motion adaptation in bottom-up mechanisms of perceptual decision-making 207/16 Investigador Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal	BIAL Foundation Concluído
2017/06 - 2018/12	BIGDATIMAGE - From computational modelling and clinical research to the development of neuroimaging big data platforms for discovery of novel biomarker CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000016 Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal	Em curso
2016/03 - 2017/05	Multimodal mapping of visual motion perceptual decision: Dissecting the role of different motion integration areas in visual surface reconstruction 373/14 Bolseiro de Investigação Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health (ICNAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal	BIAL Foundation Concluído
2013 - 2016	BRAINTRAIN: Methods of real-time fMRI neurofeedback for clinical use P7-HEALTH-2013-INNOVATION-1–602186 External Collaborator IBILI - Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal	European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development Concluído
2010 - 2011	SLEEPTIGHT: Desenvolvimento de tecnologias para um diagnóstico ambulatório de patologias do sono 11530 Bolseiro de Investigação Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR-UC), University of Coimbra, Portugal Intellicare - ISA,, Portugal	Quadro de Referência Estratégico Nacional (QREN) Concluído

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em conferência	Paulo, João Ruivo; Sousa, T.; Perdiz, João; Leal, Nicoli; Menezes, Paulo; Zhu, Tingting; Pires, Gabriel; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. Autor correspondente: Paulo, João Ruivo. "A Framework For Motor Function Characterization in Autism Spectrum Disorder". 2023. 10.1109/enbeng58165.2023.10175324 Dias, Camila; Costa, Diana M.; Sousa, Teresa; Castelhano, Joao; Figueiredo, Veronica; Pereira, Andreia C.; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "Classification of erroneous actions using EEG frequency features: implications for BCI performance". 2021. 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630509 Júlia Soares; Teresa Sousa; Otília C. d’Almeida; Sónia Batista; Lívia Sousa; Miguel Castelo-Branco; João Valente Duarte. "Investigating Whole-Brain MRI Markers in Multiple Sclerosis – Emerging Dimensions in Morphometric Space". Trabalho apresentado em XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing – MEDICON 2019, Coimbra, 2019. 10.1007/978-3-030-31635-8_202 Khalighi, S.; Sousa, T.; Nunes, U.. "Adaptive automatic sleep stage classification under covariate shift". Trabalho apresentado em International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), San Diego, 2012. Publicado • 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346412 Sousa, T.; Oliveira, D.; Khalighi, S.; Pires, G.; Nunes, U.. "Neurophysiologic and statistical analysis of failures in automatic sleep stage classification". Trabalho apresentado em International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, Vilamoura, 2012. Publicado • 10.5220/0003792304230428 Sousa, T.; Mendes, P.; Ribeiro, J.. "The impact of rhythms analysis technique on electrographic seizure detection (EEG)". Trabalho apresentado em IEEE 2nd Portuguese Meeting in Bioengineering (ENBENG), Coimbra, 2012. Publicado • 10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331399 Khalighi, S.; Sousa, T.; Oliveira, D.; Pires, G.; Nunes, U.. "Efficient feature selection for sleep staging based on maximal overlap discrete wavelet transform and SVM". Trabalho apresentado em 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Boston*, 2011. Publicado • 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090897
Artigo em revista	Araújo, Ana; Duarte, Isabel C.; Sousa, T.; Meneses, Sofia; Pereira, Ana T.; Robbins, Trevor; Macedo, António; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "“Actor-critic” dichotomous hyperactivation and hypoconnectivity in obsessive–compulsive disorder". NeuroImage: Clinical 45 (2025): 103729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103729. Publicado • 10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103729 Estiveira, João; Soares, Ernesto; Pires, Gabriel; Nunes, Urbano J; Sousa, T.; Ribeiro, Sidarta; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "SSVEP modulation via non-volitional neurofeedback: an in silico proof of concept". Journal of Neural Engineering 21 6 (2024): 066025. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ad94a5. Publicado • 10.1088/1741-2552/ad94a5 Araújo, Ana; Duarte, Isabel Catarina; Sousa, T.; Oliveira, Joana; Pereira, Ana Telma; Macedo, António; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "Neural inhibition as implemented by an actor-critic model involves the human dorsal striatum and ventral tegmental area". Scientific Reports 14 1 (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56161-8. 10.1038/s41598-024-56161-8 Sousa, T.; Sayal, Alexandre; Duarte, João V.; Costa, Gabriel N.; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. Autor correspondente: Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "A human cortical adaptive mutual inhibition circuit underlying competition for perceptual decision and repetition suppression reversal". NeuroImage 285 (2024): 120488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120488. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120488 Dias, Camila; Sousa, T.; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "A chronometric relationship between circuits underlying learning and error monitoring in the basal ganglia and salience network". Imaging Neuroscience 2 (2024): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00343. Publicado • 10.1162/imag_a_00343 Sayal, Alexandre; Guedes, Ana Gabriela; Almeida, Inês; Pereira, Daniela Jardim; Lima, César F.; Panda, Renato; Paiva, Rui Pedro; et al. "Decoding Musical Valence and Arousal: Exploring the Neural Correlates of Music-Evoked Emotions and the Role of Expressivity Features". IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2024): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1109/taffc.2024.3507192. Publicado • 10.1109/taffc.2024.3507192 Pereira, João; Direito, Bruno; Lührs, Michael; Castelo-Branco, Miguel; Sousa, T.. "Multimodal assessment of the spatial correspondence between fNIRS and fMRI hemodynamic responses in motor tasks". Scientific Reports 13 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29123-9. 10.1038/s41598-023-29123-9 Travassos, Carolina; Sayal, Alexandre; Direito, Bruno; Pereira, João; Sousa, T.; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "Assessing MR-compatibility of somatosensory stimulation devices: A systematic review on testing methodologies". Frontiers in Neuroscience 17 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1071749. 10.3389/fnins.2023.1071749 Pires, Gabriel; Cruz, Aniana; Jesus, Diogo; Yasemin, Mine; Nunes, Urbano J; Sousa, T.; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "A new error-monitoring brain–computer interface based on reinforcement learning for people with autism spectrum disorders". Journal of Neural Engineering 19 6 (2022): 066032. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/aca798. 10.1088/1741-2552/aca798 Verdade, Andreia; Sousa, T.; Castelhano, João; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "Positive hysteresis in emotion recognition: Face processing visual regions are involved in perceptual persistence, which mediates interactions between anterior insula and medial prefrontal cortex". Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 22 6 (2022): 1275-1289. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13415-022-01024-w. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.3758/s13415-022-01024-w Estiveira, João; Dias, Camila; Costa, Diana; Castelhano, João; Castelo-Branco, Miguel; Sousa, Teresa. Autor correspondente: Sousa, Teresa. "An Action-Independent Role for Midfrontal Theta Activity Prior to Error Commission". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.805080. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.3389/fnhum.2022.805080 Dias, Camila; Costa, Diana; Sousa, Teresa; Castelhano, João; Figueiredo, Verónica; Pereira, Andreia C.; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "A neuronal theta band signature of error monitoring during integration of facial expression cues". PeerJ 10 (2022): e12627. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12627. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.7717/peerj.12627 Sousa, Teresa; Duarte, João V.; Costa, Gabriel N.; Kemper, Valentin G.; Martins, Ricardo; Goebel, Rainer; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "The dual nature of the BOLD signal: Responses in visual area hMT+ reflect both input properties and perceptual decision". Human Brain Mapping (2021): 1-10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25339. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1002/hbm.25339 Direito, Bruno; Ramos, Manuel; Pereira, João; Sayal, Alexandre; Sousa, Teresa; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "Directly Exploring the Neural Correlates of Feedback-Related Reward Saliency and Valence During Real-Time fMRI-Based Neurofeedback". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.578119. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.3389/fnhum.2020.578119 Sayal, Alexandre; Sousa, Teresa; Duarte, João V.; Costa, Gabriel N.; Martins, Ricardo; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "Identification of competing neural mechanisms underlying positive and negative perceptual hysteresis in the human visual system". NeuroImage 221 (2020): 117153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117153. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117153 Verdade, Andreia; Castelhano, João; Sousa, Teresa; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "How positive emotional content overrules perceptual history effects: Hysteresis in emotion recognition". Journal of Vision 20 8 (2020): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.8.19. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1167/jov.20.8.19 Direito, Bruno; Lima, João; Simões, Marco; Sayal, Alexandre; Sousa, Teresa; Lührs, Michael; Ferreira, Carlos; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "Targeting dynamic facial processing mechanisms in superior temporal sulcus using a novel fMRI neurofeedback target". Neuroscience 406 (2019): 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.02.024. Acesso aberto • Publicado • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.02.024 Sousa, Teresa; Duarte, João V.; Costa, Gabriel N.; Kemper, Valentin G.; Martins, Ricardo; Goebel, Rainer; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "Tracking perceptual decision mechanisms through changes in interhemispheric functional connectivity in human visual cortex". Scientific Reports 9 1242 (2019): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37822-x. Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1038/s41598-018-37822-x Sousa, Teresa; Sayal, Alexandre; Duarte, João V.; Costa, Gabriel N.; Martins, Ricardo; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "Evidence for distinct levels of neural adaptation to both coherent and incoherently moving visual surfaces in visual area hMT+". NeuroImage 179 (2018): 540-547. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.075. Publicado • 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.075 Sousa, Teresa; Amaral, Carlos; Andrade, João; Pires, Gabriel; Nunes, Urbano; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. "Pure visual imagery as a potential approach to achieve three classes of control for implementation of BCI in non-motor disorders". Journal of Neural Engineering 14 046026 (2017): Publicado • https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/aa70ac Sousa, T.; Direito, B.; Lima, J.; Ferreira, C.; Nunes, U.; Castelo-Branco, M.. "Control of Brain Activity in hMT+/V5 at Three Response Levels Using fMRI-Based Neurofeedback/BCI". PloS one 11 5 (2016): Acesso aberto • Publicado • 10.1371/journal.pone.0155961 Khalighi, S.; Sousa, T.; Santos, J.M.; Nunes, U.. "ISRUC-Sleep: A comprehensive public dataset for sleep researchers". Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 124 (2015): 180-192. Publicado • 10.1016/j.cmpb.2015.10.013 Banca, P.; Sousa, T.; Duarte, C.I.; Castelo-Branco, M.. "Visual motion imagery neurofeedback based on the hMT+/V5 complex: evidence for a feedback-specific neural circuit involving neocortical and cerebellar regions.". Journal of Neural Engineering 12 066003 (2015): Publicado • 10.1088/1741-2560/12/6/066003 Sousa, T.; Cruz, A.; Khalighi, S.; Pires, G.; Nunes, U.. Autor correspondente: Sousa, T.. "A two-step automatic sleep stage classification method with dubious range detection". Computers in Biology and Medicine 59 (2015): 42-53. Publicado • 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2015.01.017 Khalighi, S.; Sousa, T.; Pires, G.; Nunes, U.. "Automatic sleep staging: A computer assisted approach for optimal combination of features and polysomnographic channels". Expert Systems with Applications 40 17 (2013): 7046-7059. Publicado • 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.06.023
Tese / Dissertação	Sousa, T.. "From parametric decoding of simple mental states to neurofeedback: insights into the neuroscience of cognitive control". Doutoramento, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, 2016. Sousa, T.. "The impact of rhythms analysis technique on electrographic seizure detection (EEG)". Mestrado, School of Engineering, University of Minho, 2010.

Outros

Conjunto de dados

Dias, Camila; Sousa, T.; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. Activation and connectivity maps - A chronometric relationship between circuits underlying learning and error monitoring in the basal ganglia and salience network. 2024.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13742605
Dias, Camila; Sousa, T.; Cruz, Aniana; Costa, Diana; Mouga, Susana; Castelhano, João; Pires, Gabriel; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. BCI speller task - EEG data. 2024.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13367018
Dias, Camila; Costa, Diana M.; Sousa, T.; Castelhano, João; Figueiredo, Verónica; Pereira, Andreia C.; Castelo-Branco, Miguel. EEG and eye-tracking data from a go/no-go saccadic task based on facial expression cues. 2023.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10177878
Sirvan Khalighi; Sousa, T.; José Moutinho dos Santos; Urbano Nunes. ISRUC-SLEEP Dataset. 2016.