About
Hugo Leite-Almeida is a Post-Doc fellow at the ICVS/3B’s PT-Government Associate Laboratory and a histology assistant professor at the School of Health Science, University of Minho. His main line of research deals with the causality relation between peripheral neuropathies and pain, mood and cognitive function. Presently, he is being interested on the differential impact of left- and right-sided neuropathies on emotion and executive function. From a methodological point of view, his approaches have been diverse and include anatomical tracing, stereology, electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry, HPLC and rodent behavior. Recently, he and his colleagues developed a new behavioral paradigm for assessment of impulsivity in rodents, the variable delay-to-signal (VDS).
Lopes S, Lopes A, Pinto V, Guimarães MR, Sardinha VM, Duarte-Silva S, Pinheiro S, Pizarro J, Oliveira JF, Sousa N, Leite-Almeida H, Sotiropoulos I. Absence of Tau triggers age-dependent sciatic nerve morphofunctional deficits and motor impairment. Aging Cell, 15(2):208-216 (2016)
Leite-Almeida H, Almeida-Torres L, Mesquita AR, Pertovaara A, Sousa N, Cerqueira JJ, Almeida A. The impact of age on emotional and cognitive behaviours triggered by experimental neuropathy in rats. Pain. 2009 Jul;144(1-2):57-65. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.02.024. Epub 2009 Apr 26.
Leite-Almeida H, Cerqueira JJ, Wei H, Ribeiro-Costa N, Anjos-Martins H, Sousa N, Pertovaara A, Almeida A. Differential effects of left/right neuropathy on rats' anxiety and cognitive behavior. Pain. 2012 Nov;153(11):2218-25. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.07.007. Epub 2012 Aug 24.
Leite-Almeida H, Melo A, Pêgo JM, Bernardo S, Milhazes N, Borges F, Sousa N, Almeida A, Cerqueira JJ. Variable delay-to-signal: a fast paradigm for assessment of aspects of impulsivity in rats. Front Behav Neurosci, 7:154 (2013).
Moreira PS, Sotiropoulos I, Silva J, Takashima A, Sousa N, Leite-Almeida H, Costa PS. The advantages of Structural Equation Modelling to address the complexity of spatial reference learning. Front Behav Neurosci, 10:18 (2016).