In this year’s Society for Social Neuroscience conference, researcher and full member of IBEB Diana Prata and 5 PhD students of her lab at IBEB (Vasco Diogo, Sonja Graf, Rafael Esteves, Miguel da Silva and Gonçalo Cosme) have presented their very exciting recent results of a robust role of oxytocin Read more…
IBEB has been granted 3 projects by FCT from 2 calls. Dr Brígida Ferreira and Dr Diana Prata were successful at the Exploratory Projects in All Scientific Domains 2024 call with projects: “RObust Biological trEatment planning in Radiation TherApy for pancreatic cancer” (ROBERTA) (in the Bioengineering and Biotechnology Panel) and Read more…
The recently graduated PhD Gonçalo Cosme, together with IBEB’s integrated members Diana Prata, Carlotta Cogoni, and Maciej Kosilo, have published their latest work, “Intranasal oxytocin increases cooperation of heterosexual men with women”, in Psychoneuroendocrinology. In this study, the researchers found that intranasal oxytocin increased cooperation towards women in the Prisoner’s Read more…
Researcher and full member of IBEB, Diana Prata, published her latest work “Psychological and hormonal effects of socio-emotional learning in adolescents: a randomized controlled trial“ in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. This study found evidence that endogenous oxytocin is increased during group-bonding tasks; and that its increase after a socio-emotional Read more…
Principal Investigator Diana Prata and PhD student Vasco Diogo were invited to present at a meeting focused on the psychophysiology of psychopathy, and divulged their novel findings on oxytocin’s role in brain function and anti-social behaviour. CBMIPA 2025 took place at the Hotel Marina Lario, in Málaga, Spain, from May Read more…