Présentation
Joana earned her PhD in Biomedical Sciences, specializing in Neurosciences, through the Doctoral Programme of the Academic Medical Centre of Lisbon, Portugal. Her doctoral research focused on mapping the functional brain circuits involved in opioid reward-context associations. In 2022, she joined the HMJB team at IPMC as a postdoctoral researcher to investigate the role of midbrain circuits in anxiety regulation and defensive behaviors. Her work integrates optogenetics and fiber photometry combined with mouse behavior analysis.
Publications
2024
Mapping functional traces of opioid memories in the rat brain,
Brain Communications, 2024, ⟨10.1093/braincomms/fcae281⟩.
2019
Role of Spinal Cord α2-Adrenoreceptors in Noradrenergic Inhibition of Nociceptive Transmission During Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy.,
Front Neurosci 2019 ; 13(): 1413.