Docente
Carlos Campos

Resume

I currently have a tenure position as an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University, conducting my core research work at the HEI-Lab - Digital Human-Environment Interaction Lab, whilst also collaborating with the Center for Rehabilitation Research (School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Porto). My career has been mostly dedicated to the social brain and in the last 5 years I have particularly focused my work on how social behaviour and psychopathology can be linked to interoception. Presently, I'm leading two funded projects that, together with key national and international partners, aim to further contribute to the emergent field of interoception research: the Interoceptively Expecting project (funded by FCT) that examines the longitudinal trajectory of interoception from late pregnancy to the early parenthood period, further exploring how it influences parent-infant bonding and interaction after birth; the Empathic Heart project (funded by BIAL Foundation) which is focused on experimental work regarding the neurophysiological correlates of interoceptive processing, ultimately aiming to produce a new framework regarding the link between empathy and interoception. While conducting my Doctoral studies at the Laboratory of Neurophysiology, University of Porto, I was also granted an FCT-funded individual fellowship aiming to conduct a multilevel assessment of interoception, examining its putative mediating role on the association between empathy and psychopathy. This immersive experience in interoception research combined with strong expertise in experimental neurosciences attained through advanced training and lab rotations at top-notch international institutions (e.g., Donders Institute, Oxford University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience) has allowed me to develop in-depth knowledge about interoception evaluation across several modalities (cardiac, respiratory, and gastric), contemplate recent theoretical models, and integrate behavioural and neurophysiological methods. Besides this core component of my work, in the past 5 years I have been collaborating on several other funded projects (FCT, BIAL Foundation, COMPETE2020) related to the neural mechanisms underlying basic processes (e.g., fear processing and decision-making) as well as in additional studies aiming to fine-tune rehabilitation methods relying on neuroplasticity (e.g., social cognition training, transcranial direct stimulation, biofeedback), which allowed me to present a solid track record as a highly productive young researcher (>30 peer-reviewed papers; h-index = 18). Throughout my career, I also had the opportunity to develop around 10 years of teaching activities in neuroscience- and research-related topics (e.g., Foundations of the Social Brain and Interoceptive Processing; Research and Data Analysis Methods for Neuropsychology, Foundations of Brain Functioning, Basic Psychological Processes; Neuromodulation, Rehabilitation and Neuroplasticity). This has allowed me to conduct other important pedagogic activities such as student research supervision (1 PhD; 12 masters; >45 undergraduates) and building materials to support students (e.g., hands-on training protocols, pedagogic manuals). My experience leading projects in the field of social and affective neuroscience, together with over a decade of experience supervising students, allow me to offer to prospective PhD students a solid and supportive environment for conducting doctoral research. Furthermore, harnessing my established international network of partners and collaborations with top-tier institutions, ensures access to cutting-edge training, cross-disciplinary expertise, and a dynamic research community, which I believe is ideal for guiding impactful PhD work in neuroscience.

Graus

• Licenciatura
  Occupational Therapy
• Mestrado
  Psychiatry and Mental Health
• Doutoramento
  Neurosciences
• Outros
  Lab Rotation - Body Social Cognition and Action Lab - ERASMUS + Staff Mobility for Training (2020-1-PT01-KA103-077742)
• Outros
  Lab Rotation - Programa IACOBUS - Grupo de Investigação de Neurociência Cognitiva Aplicada e Psicogerontologia
• Outros
  Advanced Course - Online Cognitive and Affective Neurophysiology Summer School (1st Edition) - 12h
• Outros
  Advanced Course - Donders Brain Stimulation Toolkit - 30h
• Outros
  Advanced Course - Donders Neuroimaging Toolkit - 36h
• Outros
  Advanced Course - Resting-state fMRI functional connectivity (ICA and seed-based methods) - 12h
• Outros
  Advanced Course - Psychophysiological Modelling - 8h
• Outros
  Advanced Course - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - 36h
• Outros
  Advanced Course: Understanding Others - Integration of Social Cognitive and Affective Processes (4th Workshop) - 18h
• Outros
  Advanced Course: Bootcamp em Empreendedorismo Social IES powered by INSEAD - 48h
• Outros
  Advanced Course - Basic Coding Interactive Behavior Seminar - 12h
• Outros
  Advanced Course - Integrating the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology into Clinical Practice - 18h
• Outros
  Lab Rotation - Center for Developmental Social Neuroscience - ERASMUS + Staff Mobility for Training (2021-1-PT01-KA103-HED-000009504)

Publicações

Pré-impressão

Artigo em revista

• 2025-03-21, Electroencephalographic signatures during pregnancy and their role on parenting-related measures: a scoping review protocol [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
• 2023-07-07, Exploring the associations between early maladaptive schemas and impulsive and compulsive buying tendencies, Frontiers in Psychiatry
• 2023-05-12, Uncertainty deconstructed: conceptual analysis and state-of-the-art review of the ERP correlates of risk and ambiguity in decision-making, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
• 2023, Dissociating Cognitive and Affective Empathy Across Psychopathy Dimensions: The Role of Interoception and Alexithymia, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2022-06, Refining the link between psychopathy, antisocial behavior, and empathy: A meta-analytical approach across different conceptual frameworks, Clinical Psychology Review
• 2022-01, What drives beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories? The role of psychotic-like experiences and confinement-related factors, Social Science & Medicine
• 2022-01, An unobtrusive stress detection software: Protocol design to assess the reliability of video plethysmography, Safety and Health at Work
• 2021-12-01, Repeated Clinical Assessment Using Sensory Modality Assessment and Rehabilitation Technique for Diagnosis in Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
• 2021, Social cognition and interaction training for recent-onset schizophrenia: A preliminary randomized trial, Early Intervention in Psychiatry
• 2021, Refining the link between psychopathy and empathy: A meta-analytical approach across different conceptual frameworks, Clinical Psychology Review
• 2020, The auditory n1 in schizophrenia: Comparative analysis with a monoaural stimuli paradigm, Psychiatria Danubina
• 2020, Can caffeine intake combined with aerobic exercise lead to improvement in attentional and psychomotor performance in trained individuals?, IBRO Reports
• 2020, Can Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improve Muscle Power in Individuals With Advanced Weight-Training Experience?, Journal of strength and conditioning research
• 2019, Patients' comprehension of mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy in an outpatient clinic for resistant depression: A cross-sectional study, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2019, Attachment dimensions and spatial navigation in female college students: The role of comfort with closeness and confidence in others, Frontiers in Psychology
• 2017-02-01, Psychotropic drugs and liver disease: A critical review of pharmacokinetics and liver toxicity., World journal of gastrointestinal pharmacology and therapeutics
• 2017, Wii-based exercise program to improve physical fitness, motor proficiency and functional mobility in adults with Down syndrome, Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
• 2017, The role of physical activity on mood state and functional skills of elderly women, Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health
• 2017, Exercise induced neuroplasticity to enhance therapeutic outcomes of cognitive remediation in schizophrenia: Analyzing the role of brain derived neurotrophic factor, CNS and Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets
• 2017, Can transcranial direct current stimulation on the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex improves balance and functional mobility in Parkinson's disease?, Neuroscience Letters
• 2017, Bilateral dmpfc-rtms leads to sustained remission in geriatric treatment-resistant depression: A case report, Psychiatria Danubina
• 2016, Working memory dysfunction in insomniac adults: a systematic metanalytical review, Medical Express
• 2016, Treatment of cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease: A psychopharmacological review, Psychiatria Danubina
• 2016, Transgenerational Inheritance of Paternal Neurobehavioral Phenotypes: Stress, Addiction, Ageing and Metabolism, Molecular Neurobiology
• 2016, Relationship among body image, anthropometric parameters and mental health in physical education students, Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health
• 2016, Neuroplastic Changes Following Social Cognition Training in Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review, Neuropsychology Review
• 2016, Neurobiology of bipolar disorder: Abnormalities on cognitive and cortical functioning and biomarker levels, CNS and Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets
• 2016, Mental practice combined with motor rehabilitation to treat upper limb hemiparesis of post-stroke patients: Clinical and experimental evidence, Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health
• 2016, Internet addiction and excessive social networks use: What about facebook?, Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health
• 2016, Exercise-induced neuroprotective effects on neurodegenerative diseases: the key role of trophic factors, Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
• 2016, Effects of dual-task interventions on gait performance of patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A systematic review, Medical Express
• 2016, Cognitive-behavioral therapy for schizophrenia: an overview on efficacy, recent trends and neurobiological findings, Medical Express
• 2016, Association between depression severity and executive functioning in late-life depression: a systematic review, Medical Express
• 2016, Aerobic exercise reduces anxiety symptoms and improves fitness in patients with panic disorder, Medical Express
• 2015, Kinematic parameters of throwing performance in patients with schizophrenia using a markerless motion capture system, Somatosensory and Motor Research
• 2015, Feasibility and acceptability of an exergame intervention for schizophrenia, Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Tese / Dissertação

• 2017-12-01, Mestrado, The role of the right temporoparietal junction in control of imitation of subjects with schizophrenia: a transcranial direct stimulation study
• 2014-07, Licenciatura, Feasibility, Acceptability and Preliminary Efficacy of an Exergame Intervention for Schizophrenia

Capítulo de livro

• 2024, Digital Mental Health Interventions for Children and Youth
• 2023, Digital mental health interventions for children and youth, IGI Global
• 2019, Exercício Físico e Esquizofrenia, Exercício Físico e Saúde Mental: Prevenção e Tratamento, Editora Rubio
• 2019, Exercício Físico e Doença de Alzheimer, Exercício Físico e Saúde Mental: Prevenção e Tratamento, Editora Rubio
• 2019, "Contratempo: A Música como Instrumento de Combate ao Estigma na Doença Mental, Arte e Esperança: Percursos da Iniciativa Partis, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Relatório

• 2022-10-19, LabReport 9 - DRaS
• 2022-10-19, LabReport 8 - IUS
• 2014, Inter Gera Ação: Pela cidadania e por uma Europa mais inclusiva

Manual

• 2023, Inovação e Empreendedorismo Social em Terapia Ocupacional, ESS | P. PORTO Edições
• 2023, Estimulação Transcraniana por Corrente Contínua: Fundamentos Teóricos, Guião Prático & Aplicação na Doença Mental e Neurológica, ESS | P. PORTO Edições
• 2021, Treino de competências sociais para adultos: enquadramento e implementação, ESS | P. PORTO Edições

Artigo em conferência

• 2015-07-17, "Sincronias" Project: An Integration Experience, 2º Congresso Internacional “Psicologia, Educação e Cultura"

Resumo em conferência

• 2024, Neurophysiological Markers of Cardiac Interoceptive Processing in Expectant Parents: A Study with Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials, V International Congress of Psychobiology
• 2024, Cardiac Interoceptive Processing Across Psychopathy Dimensions: Evidence from the Heartbeat Tapping Task and the Attentional Modulation of Heartbeat-Evoked Potentials, V International Congress of Psychobiology
• 2023-07, IES We Can: Web-Based Gamified Learning for Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation , Pic’23: Porto Pedagogical Innovation Conferenc
• 2021-06, The complex interplay between psychopathy phenotypes, empathy domains and interoception, ESCAN 2021 - European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Meeting
• 2021-06, Psychopathy phenotypes and interoceptive processing: a study protocol with heartbeat-evoked potentials, European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Meeting
• 2016-01, Contratempo: Fighting Stigma of Mental Illness Through Music, 11º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
• 2015-11, Individual placement and support (IPS): How to address employment needs of people with mental health problems in Porto, II International Health Congress Gaia-Porto
• 2014-02, Motor Pattern Analysis in People with Schizophrenia: A Real-Time Approach, 10º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde
• 2014-02, Motor Pattern Analysis in People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: A Real-Time Approach, 10º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde

Poster em conferência

• 2023-07, Registered Report: Decision-making under uncertainty -ERP correlates of risk and ambiguity processing in an economic decision-making task, XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología y Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva
• 2022-04, The Psychopathic Heart: Empathy, Interoception, and Psychopathy Traits in Adolescents, 2022 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference
• 2022-04, Self-Other Distinction and Individual Differences in Interoception, Empathy, and Alexythimia, 2022 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference
• 2021-06, The association between beliefs in COVID 19 conspiracy theories, psychotic like experiences and confinement related factors, ESCAN 2021 - European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Meeting
• 2021-06, Social cognition and interaction training for recent-onset schizophrenia: A preliminary randomized trial, 23rd Annual Cognitive Remediation in Psychiatry Conference
• 2021-03, Dissociating Self Reported Interoceptive Accuracy and Attention: Evidence from a Portuguese Community Sample, Joint International Online PhD Seminar - Laboratory of Neuropsychophysiology - University of Porto & College of Research Methodology and Cognitive Science of Burapha University
• 2019-10, The role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on pseudoinspirational sentences receptivity: a transcranial direct current stimulation study, 2º Congresso Nacional de Fisiologia Clínica
• 2019-03-26, Effects of biofeedback training combined with transcranial direct current stimulation on dual-task balance: a case study with a stroke patient, II Jornadas Académica de Terapia Ocupacional
• 2017-10, Environmental Risk Factor of Sensory Processing Disorder: A Exploratory Review, 7º Congresso Nacional de Terapia Ocupacional

Conjunto de dados

• Psychopathic phenotypes and empathy deficits: the role of self-other distinction and interoception, Public available datasets for "Psychopathic phenotypes and empathy deficits: the role of self-other distinction and interoception"
• COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories and Psychotic-Like Experiences: Community-Sample, Dataset publicly available for the publication of the paper "What drives beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories? The role of psychotic-like experiences and confinement-related factors

Outra produção

• 2025-03-28, Bibliometric Analysis of Attitudes towards Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Study Protocol
• 2024, Interoceptively Expecting: Are There Differences in Interoceptive Processing in Expectant Parents vs. Non-Parents?
• 2024, Allostatic interoception in frontotemporal dementia: a scoping review protocol
• 2024, Allostatic Interoception in Frontotemporal Dementia: A Scoping Review Protocol
• 2023, The Low-Fear Factor in Psychopathy and Aggression: a new virtual-reality task to decompose fear deficits in psychopathy - Registered Report
• 2022-08-30, The Psychopathic Heart: Empathy, Interoception, and Psychopathy Traits in Adolescents
• 2022-08-30, Self-Other Distinction and Individual Differences in Interoception, Empathy, and Alexithymia
• 2022-08-30, Effects of Bihemispheric Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on dual-task function in chronic stroke patients: a randomized control trial
• 2022-08-30, Dissociating Self Reported Interoceptive Accuracy and Attention: Evidence from a Portuguese Community Sample
• 2022, Effects of Bihemispheric Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on dual-task function in chronic stroke patients: a randomized control trial [Preregistration]
• 2021-12, COVID - 19 Conspiracy Theories Beliefs Questionnaire
• 2021, Self-other distinction and individual differences: evidence from the Imitation-Inhibition Task [Preregistration]
• 2020, The Complex Interaction Between Psychopathy, Empathy and Interoception [Preregistration]
• 2020, Non-invasive brain stimulation and dual-task interference on motor performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis [Preregistration] - PROSPERO 2020 CRD42020184669
• 2020, Examining the Quadratic Association Between Self-Reported Interoceptive Accuracy and Attention [Preregistration]