Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Vasco Manuel Aranha da Conceição
Citation names
- Vasco A. Conceição
Author identifiers
- 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
Email addresses
- vasco.conceicao7@gmail.com (Professional)
- vasco.conceicao@medicina.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=ksr6yvcAAAAJ&hl (Scholar)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vascoaconceicao/ (Professional)
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vasco_Conceicao (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Engineering and Technology - Other Engineering and Technologies - Other Engineering and Technologies
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2015/01 - 2020/01
Concluded
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Lisbon Biomedical and Clinical Research (LisbonBioMed) International PhD Program (Doutoramento)
Major in Biomedical Sciences - Neurosciences
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"The computational roles of dopamine and serotonin in Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved with Distinction and Honors |
2012/09 - 2014/11
Concluded
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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" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18.31 |
2009/09 - 2012/06
Concluded
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Integrated Master's Degree (MSc) in Biomedical Engineering - 1st Cycle (Mestrado integrado)
Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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16.86 |
2006/09 - 2009/07
Concluded
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12th Grade in Science & Technology (Ensino secundário)
Escola Secundária Dr. Ginestal Machado, Portugal
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19.33 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020/01 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal |
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal | ||
2019/01 - 2020/01 | Researcher (Research) | Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal |
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal | ||
2015/01 - 2018/12 | Researcher (Research) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal | ||
2015/11 - 2015/12 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Switzerland |
Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Switzerland |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020/10 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal | ||
2018/03 - 2020/10 | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2020 - Current | State learning in the orbitofrontal cortex: a combined neuroimaging and computational psychiatry study in obsessive-compulsive
disorder
PI19/01171
Other
Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Spain
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Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Ongoing
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2019 - 2019 | Epigenetic and environmental factors bracing cognitive impairment and late-onset depression in elderly and early stages of
Alzheimer disease
PIE14/00034
Other
Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), Spain
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Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Concluded
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Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/11 - 2020/07 | NIH - Reference 4464450 - Computational Psychiatry
HHSN271201700413P
Research Fellow
Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal
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National Institutes of Health (NIH) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2012/10 - 2013/12 | Habit learning disturbances in patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
NA (Not Applicable)
Other
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book chapter |
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Journal article |
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Working paper |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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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)
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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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)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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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)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal |
2016 - 2016 | Organization of the 9th iMM/CAML PhD Retreat (2016/09/29 - 2016/10/01)
Other (Member of the Organising Committee)
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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)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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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').
Symposium
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Síndrome de Tourette: Ação de Informação (ENG: 'An informative session on Tourette syndrome')
Associação Portuguesa de Síndrome de Tourette, Portugal
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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.
Other
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Computational Psychiatry Course
Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Switzerland
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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.
Other
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Behavioural Models of Disease Summer School Seminar Programme & Becoming an Effective Researcher Career Development Workshop
Lancaster University, United Kingdom
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2017/06/07 - 2017/06/09 | Participation in SynaNet workshop on Neuroimaging, at University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Workshop
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SynaNet workshop on Neuroimaging
University of Eastern Finland, Finland
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2016/08/29 - 2016/09/02 | Participation in the 2nd Edition of the Computational Psychiatry Course
Other
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Computational Psychiatry Course
Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Switzerland
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2015/12/12 - 2015/12/15 | Participation in the 1st Edition of the Computational Psychiatry Course
Other
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Computational Psychiatry Course
Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Switzerland
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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).
Other
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Lisbon Reinforcement Learning and Neuroscience Course
Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
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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.
Other
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Jogo do 24: Final Distrital (ENG: '24 Game: District Final')
Cheetos, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2021/02/24 | Episodic and Semantic memories in Cognitive Planning: Evidence from a two-stage decision task
(Thesis) Arguer
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Inês Alexandra Ribeiro Lopes Alves (Master)
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2019/04 - Current | 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 |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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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 |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2019/11 - 2019/11 | Fala Portugal (report: 'Tourette: Uma Vida de Tiques') | Tourette syndrome |
Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2020/09 - Current | PLOS One (1932-6203) | Public Library of Science |
2019/11 - Current | Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology (1469-8749) | Wiley |
2019/07 - Current | Cortex (0010-9452) | Elsevier |
2019/03 - Current | Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging (0925-4927) | Elsevier |
2019/02 - Current | Computational Psychiatry (2379-6227) | MIT Press |
2018/07 - Current | PLoS Computational Biology (1553-7358) | Public Library of Science |
Distinctions
Award
2009 | Prémio de Mérito (ENG: 'Merit Award')
Ministério da Educação, Portugal
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