Positions and Honors
– Post-doctorate in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg – Deutschland
– PhD in Clinical Medicine, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
– MBA in Health Management from Instituto COPPEAD/UFRJ
– Degree in Medicine from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1999).
– Adjunct Professor III of Pediatrics at the Department of Pediatrics of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
– General Director of IPPMG/UFRJ (2023-2026)
– Head of the Department of Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine at UFRJ (2018-2022)
– Member of the School Health Committee of the Rio de Janeiro State Pediatrics Society (SOPERJ) and the scientific committee of the Brazilian Association of Child Neurology and Psychiatry Rio de Janeiro Chapter (ABENEPI-Rio).
Main research areas:
- Pediatric Neurology
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Autism spectrum disorder
- School performance
Main publications
1 ) DREPPER, CARSTEN ; GEIßLER, JULIA ; PASTURA, GIUSEPPE ; YILMAZ, REZZAK ; BERG, DANIELA ; ROMANOS, MARCEL ; GERLACH, MANFRED . Transcranial sonography in psychiatry as a potential tool in diagnosis and research. WORLD JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, v. 30, p. 1-13, 2017.
2) PASTURA, GIUSEPPE; KUBO, TADEU TAKAO ALMODOVAR; GASPARETTO, EMERSON LEANDRO ; FIGUEIREDO, OTAVIO ; MATTOS, PAULO ; PRÜFER ARAÚJO, ALEXANDRA . Pilot study of brain morphometry in a sample of Brazilian children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: influence of clinical presentation. CLIN NEURORADIOL, v. 1, p. 1/9, 2016.
3) PASTURA, GIUSEPPE; KUBO, TADEU TAKAO ALMODOVAR; REGALLA, MARIA ANGÉLICA ; MESQUITA, CÍNTIA MACHADO ; COUTINHO, GABRIEL ; GASPARETTO, EMERSON LEANDRO ; FIGUEIREDO, OTÁVIO ; MATTOS, PAULO ; ARAÚJO, ALEXANDRA PRÜFER DE QUEIROZ CAMPOS . Working memory and left medial temporal cortical thickness. Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria (Online), v. 74, p. 785-790, 2016.
4)PASTURA, GIUSEPPE; DOERING, THOMAS; GASPARETTO, EMERSON LEANDRO ; MATTOS, PAULO ; ARAÚJO, ALEXANDRA PRÜFER . Exploratory analysis of diffusion tensor imaging in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: evidence of abnormal white matter structure. ADHD – Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders, v. 8, p. 65-71, 2015.
5) ALBUQUERQUE, GUIOMAR ; MAIA, MARCUS ; FRANÇA, ANIELA; MATTOS, PAULO ; PASTURA, GIUSEPPE . Processamento da linguagem no Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade (TDAH). DELTA. Documentação de Estudos em Linguística Teórica e Aplicada (PUCSP. Impresso), v. 28, p. 245-280, 2012.