Mirtes G Pereira
Biographic Data
| ID | 3883911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mirtes G Pereira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mirtes G |
| FAMILY NAME | Pereira |
| SIGNATURE | PEREIRA M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal Fluminense |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4682-223X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black women
Understanding depression in basic education teachers
Introduction Teacher mental health is a growing global concern, particularly in under-resourced educational systems. Depression among educators compromises not only individual well-being but also the quality and equity of education. This study investigates the prevalence of depressive symptoms among Brazilian basic education teachers and explores how structural inequalities, particularly gender, race, parenthood, and prior psychiatric history, co…
The impact of parenthood on mental health within the academic community
Members of the academic community who are parents, particularly mothers, often contend with an array of additional responsibilities that create a delicate balance between academic work on the one hand and childcare and household duties on the other. Consequently, they may experience a negative impact on both their scientific careers and mental well-being. This study seeks to explore the intricate relationship between parenthood and depression sym…
Blunted Brain Reactivity To Mutilation Pictures in Patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Exposure To Childhood Sexual Abuse
Threat directionality modulates defensive reactions in humans
Features of threatening cues and the associated context influence the perceived imminence of threat and the defensive responses evoked. To provide additional knowledge about how the directionality of a threat (i.e. directed-towards or away from the viewer) might impact defensive responses in humans, participants were shown pictures of a man carrying a gun (threat) or nonlethal object (neutral) directed-away from or towards the participant. Cardia…
Exploring the effects of Covid-19-related traumatic events on the mental health of university students in Brazil
University students are vulnerable to mental health issues during their academic lives. During the COVID-19 pandemic, university students faced mental distress due to lockdowns and the transition to e-learning. However, it is not known whether these students were also affected specifically by COVID-19-related traumatic events. This study examined the impact of COVID-19-related traumatic events on 2277 university students from two federal institut…
Addiction to ultra-processed foods as a mediator between psychological stress and emotional eating during the Covid-19 pandemic
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic induced psychological distress, which is linked to emotional eating and symptoms of addiction to ultra-processed foods (UPFs). Objective This study aimed to investigate whether symptoms of addiction to UPFs mediate the relationship between psychological stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic and emotional eating behaviour. Methods A cross-sectional online study was conducted from May to Nov…
Ultra-Processed Foods Elicit Higher Approach Motivation Than Unprocessed and Minimally Processed Foods
Background: Ultra-processed foods (UPF) are becoming extensively available in the food environments. UPF are industrial formulations that are designed to maximize palatability and consumption through a combination of calorie-dense ingredients and chemical additives. UPFs are also aggressively marketed, which may make them more attractive than unprocessed/minimally processed foods (UMPF). Since consumers' purchase decisions are guided by food-evok…
Vulnerability and Protective Factors for PTSD and Depression Symptoms Among Healthcare Workers During Covid-19
Background: Healthcare workers are at high risk for developing mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need to identify vulnerability and protective factors related to the severity of psychiatric symptoms among healthcare workers to implement targeted prevention and intervention programs to reduce the mental health burden worldwide during COVID-19. Objective: The present study aimed to apply a machine learning appr…
Appetitive drives for ultra-processed food products and the ability of text warnings to counteract consumption predispositions
Objective The present study aimed to (i) assess the appetitive drives evoked by the visual cues of ultra-processed food and drink products and (ii) investigate whether text warnings reduce appetitive drives and consumers’ reported intentions to eat or drink ultra-processed products. Design In Study I, a well-established psychometric tool was applied to estimate the appetitive drives associated with ultra-processed products using sixty-four image …
Six weeks of meditation training influences response bias in a discrimination task with emotional distractors
Introduction: Focused attention meditation is the voluntary focusing of attention on a chosen object in a sustained fashion, whose objective is to develop attentional and emotional regulatory skills./objective: We investigated the effect of a six-week focused attention meditation training on a discrimination task with emotional distractors by comparing participants’ discriminability and bias before and after training. Method: College students wer…
Alcohol, emotion and attention
Among the known effects of alcohol on behavior, the modulation of cognitive functions (such as attention and memory), emotion, risk-taking and aggressive behavior are noteworthy. Here, we performed literature review in order to reinterpret alcohol effects on behavior according to the Alcohol Myopia Theory. According to this construct, there is a reduction of attentional resources during alcohol intoxication, which are primarily allocated to the m…
Avoidance of smoking
Previous studies have shown that the most threatening and arousing pictures prompt the greatest evidence of defensive activation. Emotional ratings of Brazilian warning pictures described them as unpleasant but moderately arousing. To intensify avoidance of the packages, future graphic warnings should therefore generate more arousal. The ratings for the Brazilian warning pictures indicated that, except for those depicting people smoking, judgemen…
Neurobiologia da regulação emocional
A regulação das emoções representa uma habilidade fundamental para a interação social, influenciando o comportamento e a expressão emocional. É objetivo deste artigo revisar os trabalhos científicos sobre as diferentes estratégias de regulação da emoção e os circuitos cerebrais subjacentes. Os trabalhos que utilizaram a estratégia de reavaliação cognitiva observaram um padrão de ativação cerebral caracterizado por uma ativação significativa do có…
Sustained and transient modulation of performance induced by emotional picture viewing
We investigated how viewing task-irrelevant emotional pictures affects the performance of a subsequent nonemotional visual detection task. Subjects performed target-detection trials following the offset of individual unpleasant, pleasant, and neutral pictures. Sustained interference occurred when subjects viewed unpleasant pictures (mutilated bodies) in a sequential, "blocked" fashion. Such slowing down of reaction time appeared to build up with …
Neurobiologia da regulação emocional
A regulação das emoções representa uma habilidade fundamental para a interação social, influenciando o comportamento e a expressão emocional. É objetivo deste artigo revisar os trabalhos científicos sobre as diferentes estratégias de regulação da emoção e os circuitos cerebrais subjacentes. Os trabalhos que utilizaram a estratégia de reavaliação cognitiva observaram um padrão de ativação cerebral caracterizado por uma ativação significativa do có…
Alcohol, emotion and attention
Among the known effects of alcohol on behavior, the modulation of cognitive functions (such as attention and memory), emotion, risk-taking and aggressive behavior are noteworthy. Here, we performed literature review in order to reinterpret alcohol effects on behavior according to the Alcohol Myopia Theory. According to this construct, there is a reduction of attentional resources during alcohol intoxication, which are primarily allocated to the m…
Sustained and transient modulation of performance induced by emotional picture viewing
We investigated how viewing task-irrelevant emotional pictures affects the performance of a subsequent nonemotional visual detection task. Subjects performed target-detection trials following the offset of individual unpleasant, pleasant, and neutral pictures. Sustained interference occurred when subjects viewed unpleasant pictures (mutilated bodies) in a sequential, "blocked" fashion. Such slowing down of reaction time appeared to build up with …
Avoidance of smoking
Previous studies have shown that the most threatening and arousing pictures prompt the greatest evidence of defensive activation. Emotional ratings of Brazilian warning pictures described them as unpleasant but moderately arousing. To intensify avoidance of the packages, future graphic warnings should therefore generate more arousal. The ratings for the Brazilian warning pictures indicated that, except for those depicting people smoking, judgemen…
Neurobiologia da regulação emocional
A regulação das emoções representa uma habilidade fundamental para a interação social, influenciando o comportamento e a expressão emocional. É objetivo deste artigo revisar os trabalhos científicos sobre as diferentes estratégias de regulação da emoção e os circuitos cerebrais subjacentes. Os trabalhos que utilizaram a estratégia de reavaliação cognitiva observaram um padrão de ativação cerebral caracterizado por uma ativação significativa do có…
Alcohol, emotion and attention
Among the known effects of alcohol on behavior, the modulation of cognitive functions (such as attention and memory), emotion, risk-taking and aggressive behavior are noteworthy. Here, we performed literature review in order to reinterpret alcohol effects on behavior according to the Alcohol Myopia Theory. According to this construct, there is a reduction of attentional resources during alcohol intoxication, which are primarily allocated to the m…
Six weeks of meditation training influences response bias in a discrimination task with emotional distractors
Introduction: Focused attention meditation is the voluntary focusing of attention on a chosen object in a sustained fashion, whose objective is to develop attentional and emotional regulatory skills./objective: We investigated the effect of a six-week focused attention meditation training on a discrimination task with emotional distractors by comparing participants’ discriminability and bias before and after training. Method: College students wer…
Appetitive drives for ultra-processed food products and the ability of text warnings to counteract consumption predispositions
Objective The present study aimed to (i) assess the appetitive drives evoked by the visual cues of ultra-processed food and drink products and (ii) investigate whether text warnings reduce appetitive drives and consumers’ reported intentions to eat or drink ultra-processed products. Design In Study I, a well-established psychometric tool was applied to estimate the appetitive drives associated with ultra-processed products using sixty-four image …
Ultra-Processed Foods Elicit Higher Approach Motivation Than Unprocessed and Minimally Processed Foods
Background: Ultra-processed foods (UPF) are becoming extensively available in the food environments. UPF are industrial formulations that are designed to maximize palatability and consumption through a combination of calorie-dense ingredients and chemical additives. UPFs are also aggressively marketed, which may make them more attractive than unprocessed/minimally processed foods (UMPF). Since consumers' purchase decisions are guided by food-evok…
Vulnerability and Protective Factors for PTSD and Depression Symptoms Among Healthcare Workers During Covid-19
Background: Healthcare workers are at high risk for developing mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need to identify vulnerability and protective factors related to the severity of psychiatric symptoms among healthcare workers to implement targeted prevention and intervention programs to reduce the mental health burden worldwide during COVID-19. Objective: The present study aimed to apply a machine learning appr…
Threat directionality modulates defensive reactions in humans
Features of threatening cues and the associated context influence the perceived imminence of threat and the defensive responses evoked. To provide additional knowledge about how the directionality of a threat (i.e. directed-towards or away from the viewer) might impact defensive responses in humans, participants were shown pictures of a man carrying a gun (threat) or nonlethal object (neutral) directed-away from or towards the participant. Cardia…
Exploring the effects of Covid-19-related traumatic events on the mental health of university students in Brazil
University students are vulnerable to mental health issues during their academic lives. During the COVID-19 pandemic, university students faced mental distress due to lockdowns and the transition to e-learning. However, it is not known whether these students were also affected specifically by COVID-19-related traumatic events. This study examined the impact of COVID-19-related traumatic events on 2277 university students from two federal institut…
Addiction to ultra-processed foods as a mediator between psychological stress and emotional eating during the Covid-19 pandemic
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic induced psychological distress, which is linked to emotional eating and symptoms of addiction to ultra-processed foods (UPFs). Objective This study aimed to investigate whether symptoms of addiction to UPFs mediate the relationship between psychological stress due to the COVID-19 pandemic and emotional eating behaviour. Methods A cross-sectional online study was conducted from May to Nov…
The impact of parenthood on mental health within the academic community
Members of the academic community who are parents, particularly mothers, often contend with an array of additional responsibilities that create a delicate balance between academic work on the one hand and childcare and household duties on the other. Consequently, they may experience a negative impact on both their scientific careers and mental well-being. This study seeks to explore the intricate relationship between parenthood and depression sym…
Blunted Brain Reactivity To Mutilation Pictures in Patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Exposure To Childhood Sexual Abuse
Black women
Understanding depression in basic education teachers
Introduction Teacher mental health is a growing global concern, particularly in under-resourced educational systems. Depression among educators compromises not only individual well-being but also the quality and equity of education. This study investigates the prevalence of depressive symptoms among Brazilian basic education teachers and explores how structural inequalities, particularly gender, race, parenthood, and prior psychiatric history, co…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (4 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (3 works)