Vanessa Costhek Abílio

Professor Adjunto
Email: abilio.farm@epm.br / vanabilio@gmail.com
Tel. : (11) 5576-4980 - Voip: 1827

Formação
Graduada em Biomedicina pela Universidade Federal de São Paulo (1995), mestrado em Farmacologia pela Universidade Federal de São Paulo (1998), doutorado em Farmacologia pela Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2003) e pós-doutorado pela University of Chicago (2009).

Áreas de Interesse
Estudo dos transtornos psiquiátricos por meio de modelos animais, com principal enfoque na esquizofrenia. Investigação da fisiopatologia, fatores de risco, estratégias terapêuticas e preventivas e possíveis efeitos colaterais associados.

Principais publicações

1. Levin R, Almeida V, Peres FF, Calzavara MB, Silva ND, Suiama MA, Niigaki ST, Zuardi AW, Hallak JEC, Crippa JA, Abílio VC. Antipsychotic profile of cannabidiol and rimonabant in an animal model of emotional context processing in schizophrenia. Current Pharmaceutical Design., no prelo.
2. Calzavara MB, Levin R, Medrano WA, Almeida V, Fróis, SAP, Barone LC, Frussa-Filho R, Abilio V C. Effects of antipsychotics and amphetamine on social behaviors in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Behavioural Brain Research. , v.225, p.15 - 22, 2011.
3. Levin R, Calzavara MB, Santos CM, Medrano WA Niigaki ST, Abilio V C. Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR) present deficits in prepulse inhibition of startle specifically reverted by clozapine. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry. , v.35, p.1748 - 1752, 2011.
4. Calzavara MB, Levin R, Medrano WA, Levin R, Libânio TC, Ribeiro R de A, Abilio V C. The contextual fear conditioning deficit presented by spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) is not improved by mood stabilizers. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry. , v.35, p.1607 - 1611, 2011.
5. Calzavara MB, Medrano WA, Levin R, Kameda SR, Andersen ML, Tufik S, Silva.RH, Frussa- Filho, R., Abílio V C. Neuroleptic Drugs Revert the Contextual Fear Conditioning Deficit Presented by Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats: A Potential Animal Model of Emotional Context Processing in Schizophrenia?. Schizophrenia Bulletin , v.35, p.748 - 759, 2009.