Manuel Gonçalves Pereira

Professor Professor Catedrático

Principal Investigator

Psychiatrist. Competence in Geriatrics (Portuguese Medical Association). MSc (Mental Health), PhD (Psychiatry and Mental Health) and Habilitation (Medicine, Mental Health).
Full professor and coordinator of the curricular unit Behavioural Medicine (Integrated Master of Medicine) and of the Academic Area Health of the Populations at NOVA Medical School. Principal Investigator – NOVA Medical School (Mental Health Group); investigator at the CHRC.

Member of INTERDEM (early and timely INTERventions in DEMentia, the European network of dementia care researchers) and of the Portuguese Society of Family Therapy.

Main scientific interests: caregiving issues and family interventions; depression; mental health of older people and geriatric psychiatry; psychiatric epidemiology; mental health services research; behavioural medicine; medical education and Medical Humanities.

Publications

Selected publications (2013-2024):

Gonçalves-Pereira M, Xavier M, van Wijngaarden B, Papoila AL, Schene AH, Caldas de Almeida JM. Impact of psychosis on Portuguese caregivers: A cross-cultural exploration of burden, distress, positive aspects and clinical-functional correlates. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2013; 48: 325-335.
Alves da Silva J, Gonçalves-Pereira M, Xavier M, Mukaetova-Ladinska E. Affective disorders and risk of developing dementia: Systematic review. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2013; 202: 177-86.
Verdelho A, Gonçalves-Pereira M (Eds): Neuropsychiatric symptoms in cognitive impairment and dementia. Springer, 2017. ISBN: 978-3-319-39136-6 (Print) 978-3-319-39138-0 (Online); DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-39138-0.
Gonçalves-Pereira M, Cardoso A, Verdelho A, Alves da Silva J, Caldas de Almeida M, Fernandes A, Raminhos C, Prina AM, Ferri C, Prince M, Xavier M. The prevalence of dementia in a Portuguese community sample: A 10/66 Dementia Research Group study. BMC Geriatrics, 2017; 17:261.
Grácio J, Gonçalves-Pereira M, Leff J. Key elements of a family intervention for schizophrenia: A qualitative analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Family Process, 2018; 57 (1): 100-112.
Gonçalves-Pereira, M, Prina, AM, Cardoso, AM, da Silva, JA, Prince, M, Xavier, M. The prevalence of late-life depression in a Portuguese community sample: A 10/66 Dementia Research Group study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2019; 246, 674–681.
Gonçalves-Pereira, M, Zarit, SH, Cardoso, AM, Alves da Silva, J, Papoila, AL, Mateos, R. A comparison of primary and secondary caregivers of persons with dementia. Psychology and Aging, 2020; 35, 20–27.
Balsinha C, Iliffe S, Dias S, Freitas JA, Barreiros F, Gonçalves-Pereira M. Dementia and primary care teams: obstacles to the implementation of Portugal’s Dementia Strategy. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 2022; 23, E10.
Marques MJ, Gonçalves-Pereira M, De Vugt M, Verhey F, Woods B & Actifcare Consortium. The quality of family relationships in dementia: mixed methods to unravel mixed feelings. Dementia: the International Journal of Social Science and Practice, 2024; 23(2): 210-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/14713012231220759
Gonçalves-Pereira M. Mental health as a polysemic construct? Revisiting the debate about university students’ unmet needs. Portuguese Journal of Public Health, 2024; 42 (3): 165–168. https://doi.org/10.1159/000542629

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