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Pedro Nascimento Alves. Completed the Mestrado integrado in Medicina in 2012/06/30 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina and Doutoramento in Doctoral Thesis in Medicine - Neurology in 2022/11/04 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina. Is Researcher in Universidade de Lisboa, Faculty of Medicine, Language Research Laboratory, Assistente in Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Neurology, Hospital de Santa Maria, CHULN and Invited Assistant Professor in Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina. Published 25 articles in journals. Has received 14 awards and/or honors. Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s), Post-doc in 1 project(s) and Principal investigator in 2 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Clinical Medicine with emphasis on Clinical Neurology and Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Basic Medicine with emphasis on Neurosciences.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Pedro Nascimento Alves

Citation names

  • Alves, PN

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
561D-EA98-5D64
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5740-5904

Email addresses

  • pedronascimentoalves@gmail.com (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 217934480 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Department of Neurology, Hospital de Santa Maria, CHULN, 1649-028, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Medical and Health Sciences - Clinical Medicine - Clinical Neurology
  • Medical and Health Sciences - Basic Medicine - Neurosciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/07/20 - 2022/11/04
Concluded
 Doctoral Thesis in Medicine - Neurology (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"Delusions of space after stroke: clinical phenomenology and neural basis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved with Distinction and Honours
2014/01/02 - 2019/03/22
Concluded
 Neurology (Título de especialista)
Hospital de Santa Maria, Portugal
 19,87
2017/02/10 - 2019/02/10
Concluded
 Clinical Scholars Research Training (Pós-Graduação)
Harvard Medical School Portugal, Portugal
2006/09/01 - 2012/06/30
Concluded
 Medicina (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"Overexpression of adenosine A2A receptors in rats: effects on depression, locomotion and anxiety" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17,4
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/01/02 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa, Faculty of Medicine, Language Research Laboratory, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2018/02/28 Visiting Researcher (Research) Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory, Institute of Brain and Spinal Cord, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, France

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/02/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
2021/11/22 - 2024/01/31 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/04/01 - Current Assistente (Médica) Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Neurology, Hospital de Santa Maria, CHULN, Portugal
2014/01/02 - 2019/03/31 Interno (Médica) Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Neurology, Hospital de Santa Maria, CHULN, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/06/01 - Current Cognition and brain amyloid deposition in transthyretin- related familial amyloid polyneuropathy
WI229680
Principal investigator
Pfizer Portugal
Ongoing

Other

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - Current Tailored neurotransmitter circuits modulation of stroke patients
NeuroT-Treat
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina, Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, Portugal
Ongoing
2022/12/02 - Current Neurotransmitter circuit mapping of stroke
NeuroT-Map
Post-doc
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina, Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, Portugal
Ongoing
2017/07/20 - 2022/11/04 Delusions of space after stroke: clinical phenomenology and neural basis
Prémio JLA - 2ª edição
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculty of Medicine, Language Research Laboratory, Portugal

Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Neurology, Hospital de Santa Maria, CHULN, Portugal
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Adriana Henriques Silva; Alves, PN; Ana Catarina Fonseca; Teresa Pinho-e-Melo; Isabel Pavão Martins. "Neglect scoring modifications in the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale improve right hemisphere stroke lesion volume prediction". European Journal of Neurology (2024): https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.16133.
    10.1111/ene.16133
  2. Tomás, Diogo João; Alves, PN; Vânia Silva-Nunes, Maria. "Spatial orientation: A relationship with inferential memory". Brain and Cognition 170 (2023): 106059. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2023.106059.
    10.1016/j.bandc.2023.106059
  3. Alves, PN; Ana C. Fonseca; Teresa Pinho-e-Melo; Isabel P. Martins. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "Clinical presentation and neural correlates of stroke-associated spatial delusions". European Journal of Neurology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.15557.
    10.1111/ene.15557
  4. Dias da Costa, Mariana; Alves, PN; Aguiar de Sousa, Diana; Canhão, Patrícia. "Cerebral venous thrombosis following an immunoglobulin-E mediated anaphylactic reaction". Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases 32 1 (2023): 106873. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2022.106873.
    10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2022.106873
  5. Mueller, Christoph; Elben, Saskia; Day, Gregory S.; Alves, PN; Hebert, Julien; Tang-Wai, David F.; Holtmann, Olga; et al. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "Review and meta-analysis of neuropsychological findings in autoimmune limbic encephalitis with autoantibodies against LGI1, CASPR2, and GAD65 and their response to immunotherapy". Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 224 (2023): 107559. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2022.107559.
    10.1016/j.clineuro.2022.107559
  6. Alves, PN; Stephanie J. Forkel; Maurizio Corbetta; Michel Thiebaut de Schotten. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "The subcortical and neurochemical organization of the ventral and dorsal attention networks". Communications Biology 5 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04281-0.
    10.1038/s42003-022-04281-0
  7. Coelho, Pedro; Rodrigues, Joana Amado; Alves, PN; Fonseca, Ana Catarina. "Time perception changes in stroke patients: A systematic literature review". Frontiers in Neurology 13 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.938367.
    10.3389/fneur.2022.938367
  8. Alves, PN; Daniela P. Silva; Ana C. Fonseca; Isabel P. Martins. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "Mapping delusions of space onto a structural disconnectome that decouples familiarity and place networks". Cortex 146 (2022): 250-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.11.008.
    10.1016/j.cortex.2021.11.008
  9. Ferreira, Axel; Coelho, Paulo Simões; Alves, PN; Carvalho, Vanessa. "Structural disconnectome analysis of acute freezing of gait due to parietal stroke: implications for FOG pathogenesis". BMJ Case Reports 15 1 (2022): e245972. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-245972.
    10.1136/bcr-2021-245972
  10. Alves, PN; Ana C. Fonseca; Daniela P. Silva; Matilde R. Andrade; Teresa Pinho-e-Melo; Michel Thiebaut de Schotten; Isabel P. Martins. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "Unravelling the Neural Basis of Spatial Delusions After Stroke". Annals of Neurology (2021): https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26079.
    10.1002/ana.26079
  11. Coelho, Pedro; Schön, Miguel; Alves, PN; Fonseca, Ana Catarina; Pinho e Melo, Teresa. "An image is not always worth a thousand words: an image mimic of transient global amnesia". Neurological Sciences 42 6 (2021): 2515-2517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10072-021-05050-3.
    10.1007/s10072-021-05050-3
  12. Martins, Isabel Pavão; Maruta, Carolina; Alves, PN; Loureiro, Clara; Morgado, Joana; Tavares, Joana; Gil-Gouveia, Raquel. "Cognitive aging in migraine sufferers is associated with more subjective complaints but similar age-related decline: a 5-year longitudinal study". The Journal of Headache and Pain 21 1 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s10194-020-01100-x.
    10.1186/s10194-020-01100-x
  13. Fonseca, Ana Catarina; Marto, João Pedro; Pimenta, Daniela; Guimarães, Tatiana; Alves, PN; Inácio, Nuno; Viana-Baptista, Miguel; et al. "Undetermined stroke genesis and hidden cardiomyopathies determined by cardiac magnetic resonance". Neurology 94 1 (2019): e107-e113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000008698.
    10.1212/wnl.0000000000008698
  14. Alves, PN; Foulon, Chris; Karolis, Vyacheslav; Bzdok, Danilo; Margulies, Daniel S.; Volle, Emmanuelle; Thiebaut de Schotten, Michel. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "An improved neuroanatomical model of the default-mode network reconciles previous neuroimaging and neuropathological findings". Communications Biology 2 1 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0611-3.
    10.1038/s42003-019-0611-3
  15. Fonseca, Ana Catarina; Marto, João Pedro; Alves, PN; Inácio, Nuno; Viana-Baptista, Miguel; Pinho e Melo, Teresa; Ferro, José M.; Almeida, Ana G.. "Women Who Have Ischemic Strokes Have a Higher Burden of Left Atrial Fibrosis Than Men". Stroke 49 11 (2018): 2584-2589. http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/strokeaha.118.022105.
    10.1161/strokeaha.118.022105
  16. Azevedo Kauppila, Linda; Alves, PN; Reimão, Sofia; Fonseca, Ana Catarina; Pinho e Melo, Teresa; Martins, Isabel Pavão. "Memory impairment due to bilateral fornix infarction: Characterisation and follow-up". Journal of the Neurological Sciences 390 (2018): 10-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2018.03.034.
    10.1016/j.jns.2018.03.034
  17. Fonseca, Ana Catarina; Alves, PN; Inácio, Nuno; Marto, João Pedro; Viana-Baptista, Miguel; Pinho-e-Melo, Teresa; Ferro, José M.; Almeida, Ana G.. "Patients With Undetermined Stroke Have Increased Atrial Fibrosis". Stroke 49 3 (2018): 734-737. http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/strokeaha.117.019641.
    10.1161/strokeaha.117.019641
  18. Alves, PN; Mamede de Carvalho; Sofia Reimão; José Castro; Ana Catarina Fonseca; Patrícia Canhão. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "Voluntary control of a plegic limb during yawning". Journal of Neurology 265 2 (2018): 433-435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-017-8729-z.
    10.1007/s00415-017-8729-z
  19. Alves, PN; Carolina Maruta; Luísa Albuquerque; Isabel Pavão Martins. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "Dissociation findings between short-term and long-term memory in autoimmune limbic encephalitis". Journal of the Neurological Sciences 381 (2017): 126-127. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.jns.2017.08.016.
    10.1016/j.jns.2017.08.016
  20. Vanda Freitas Castro; Alves, PN; Ana Catarina Franco; Isabel Pavão Martins; Isabel Conceição. "Cognitive impairment in liver transplanted patients with transthyretin-related hereditary amyloid polyneuropathy". Amyloid 24 2 (2017): 110-114. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F13506129.2017.1335639.
    10.1080/13506129.2017.1335639
  21. Alves, PN; Sofia Reimão; Catarina Campos; Carolina Maruta; Luz Rocha; Graça Sá; Ana Catarina Fonseca; Isabel Pavão Martins. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "Loss of object ownership feeling following a left hemisphere infarct". Cortex 84 (2016): 132-134. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cortex.2016.06.021.
    10.1016/j.cortex.2016.06.021
  22. Alves, PN; Cristiana Silva; Joana Baptista; Bárbara Lima; Margarida Jacinto; Frederico Trigueiros; André Martins; Teresa Pinho e Melo; Ana Catarina Fonseca. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "Laterality of Pneumonia in Acute Stroke". European Neurology 77 1-2 (2016): 75-79. https://doi.org/10.1159%2F000454764.
    10.1159/000454764
  23. Alves, PN; Fernandes Silva, Helena; Aragão Homem, Catarina; Geraldes, Ruth; Fonseca, Ana Catarina. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "IV and V cranial nerves dysfunction as initial manifestations of superficial siderosis of the central nervous system". Revista de Neurología 62 07 (2016): 334. http://dx.doi.org/10.33588/rn.6207.2015503.
    10.33588/rn.6207.2015503
  24. Alves, PN; Mamede de Carvalho; Rita Peralta; Ruth Geraldes; Ana Catarina Fonseca; Teresa Pinho e Melo. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "Axial myoclonus after ischemic stroke". Neurology 85 7 (2015): 654-654. https://doi.org/10.1212%2Fwnl.0000000000001858.
    10.1212/wnl.0000000000001858
  25. Joana E. Coelho; Alves, PN; Paula M. Canas; Jorge S. Valadas; Tatiana Shmidt; Vânia L. Batalha; Diana G. Ferreira; et al. "Overexpression of Adenosine A2A Receptors in Rats: Effects on Depression, Locomotion, and Anxiety". Frontiers in Psychiatry 5 (2014): https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffpsyt.2014.00067.
    10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00067
Preprint
  1. Alves, PN; Victor Nozais; Justine Hansen; Maurizio Corbetta; Parashkev Nachev; Pavão Martins, Isabel; Michel Thiebaut de Schotten. Corresponding author: Alves, PN. "Neurotransmitter's white matter mapping unveils the neurochemical fingerprints of stroke". 2024. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3937453/v1.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-3937453/v1
Activities

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/10/26 - Current Behavioural Neurology Section of the Portuguese Society of Neurology President
2022/01/02 - 2023/12/31 Higher Cortical Functions Scientific Panel of the European Academy of Neurology Resident and Research Fellow Section representative
2019/01/02 - 2022/12/31 Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology Treasurer
Distinctions

Award

2024 Prize of the European Workshop of Cognitive Neuropsychology - Bressanone 2024
2024 Prize of the best oral communication - Portuguese Society of Stroke 2024
2021 Runner-up prize of the European Academy of Neurology 2021 – Tournament clinical for neurologists in training
European Academy of Neurology, Austria
2021 1st Experts prize of the XIV Annual CAML PhD Students’ Scientific Meeting
CAML PhD Students’ Scientific Meeting, Portugal
2018 Prize João Lobo Antunes
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 Top 5 research proposal in the program Harvard Medical School Portugal - Clinical Scholars Research Training
Harvard Medical School Portugal, Portugal
2018 Runner-up prize of the European Academy of Neurology 2018 – Tournament in basic neurosciences for neurologist in training
European Academy of Neurology, Austria
2018 Prize Orlando Leitão
Portuguese Society of Neurology, Portugal
2017 Prize for the best presentation of a clinical case
Portuguese Society of Stroke, Portugal
2016 Prize António Flores
Portuguese Society of Neurology, Portugal

Other distinction

2020 Pfizer Investigator Initiated Research Grant
Pfizer Portugal, Portugal
2018 Research Fellowship Grant of the European Academy of Neurology
European Academy of Neurology, Austria
2018 Research Grant of the Portuguese Society of Stroke
Portuguese Society of Stroke, Portugal
2016 Research Grant Fundação Astrazeneca/FMUL
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal