Affiliation: Department of Drugs and Medicines, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil

Dr. Gessynger Morais-Silva received his B.Sc. in Biomedicine from the Federal University of Uberlandia in 2014, a master’s degree in Physiological Sciences in 2016, and his Ph.D. in Physiological Sciences from the Sao Paulo State University in 2021. During his master’s and Ph.D., he worked on the interface between stress and ethanol addiction, working on animal models of resilience and susceptibility to such psychiatric disorders. His focus is on the neuronal plasticity underlying the vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disorders, and on new treatment strategies. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Araraquara at the Sao Paulo State University in the lab of Dr. Ricardo Nunes-de-Souza, working on the importance of the hemispheric functional lateralization of the medial prefrontal cortex in the responses to social stressors.