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Nuno Sousa

Professor, School of Medicine, ICVS, UMinho, Portugal
Verified email at med.uminho.pt
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The multimodal brain tumor image segmentation benchmark (BRATS)

…, HC Shin, J Shotton, CA Silva, N Sousa… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we report the set-up and results of the Multimodal Brain Tumor Image
Segmentation Benchmark (BRATS) organized in conjunction with the MICCAI 2012 and 2013 …

From basics to clinical: a comprehensive review on spinal cord injury

NA Silva, N Sousa, RL Reis, AJ Salgado - Progress in neurobiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating neurological disorder that affects thousands of
individuals each year. Over the past decades an enormous progress has been made in our …

Adipose tissue derived stem cells secretome: soluble factors and their roles in regenerative medicine

AJ Salgado, RL Reis, N Sousa… - Current stem cell …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Stem cells have been long looked at as possible therapeutic vehicles for different health
related problems. Among the different existing stem cell populations, Adipose derived Stem …

Reorganization of the morphology of hippocampal neurites and synapses after stress-induced damage correlates with behavioral improvement

N Sousa, NV Lukoyanov, MD Madeira, OFX Almeida… - Neuroscience, 2000 - Elsevier
We recently demonstrated that stress-induced cognitive deficits in rats do not correlate with
hippocampal neuronal loss. Working on the premise that subtle structural changes may …

Chronic stress causes frontostriatal reorganization and affects decision-making

…, AR Mesquita, JJ Cerqueira, RM Costa, N Sousa - Science, 2009 - science.org
The ability to shift between different behavioral strategies is necessary for appropriate
decision-making. Here, we show that chronic stress biases decision-making strategies, affecting …

[HTML][HTML] A hitchhiker's guide to diffusion tensor imaging

J Soares, P Marques, V Alves, N Sousa - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) studies are increasingly popular among clinicians and
researchers as they provide unique insights into brain network connectivity. However, in order to …

The prefrontal cortex as a key target of the maladaptive response to stress

…, F Mailliet, OFX Almeida, TM Jay, N Sousa - Journal of …, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
Research on the detrimental effects of stress in the brain has mainly focused on the
hippocampus. Because prefrontal cortex (PFC) dysfunction characterizes many stress-related …

Do domestic firms learn to export from multinationals?

D Greenaway, N Sousa, K Wakelin - European Journal of Political …, 2004 - Elsevier
Attracting inward investment is a major preoccupation of policymakers worldwide, and a
wide range of instruments, including direct subventions, are deployed to attract multinational …

The mood-improving actions of antidepressants do not depend on neurogenesis but are associated with neuronal remodeling

…, JJ Cerqueira, JA Palha, OFX Almeida, N Sousa - Molecular …, 2009 - nature.com
The mechanisms underlying the initiation/onset of, and the recovery from, depression are
still largely unknown; views that neurogenesis in the hippocampus may be important for the …

[HTML][HTML] Neuropathology of stress

PJ Lucassen, J Pruessner, N Sousa, OFX Almeida… - Acta …, 2014 - Springer
Environmental challenges are part of daily life for any individual. In fact, stress appears to be
increasingly present in our modern, and demanding, industrialized society. Virtually every …