Euripedes Constantino Miguel

Euripedes Constantino Miguel Filho (born June 14, 1959) is a Brazilian psychiatrist. He is a graduate of the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP, University of São Paulo School of Medicine). He currently holds the title of Full Professor and is the Vice-Head of the FMUSP Department of Psychiatry. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke University (Durham, NC) and at Yale University (New Haven, CT), as well as being a Research Consultant for Harvard University School of Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital. Miguel has authored or co-authored more than 150 articles published in journals indexed for the major international databases. Since 2004, he has coordinated the Consórcio Brasileiro de Pesquisa dos Transtornos do Espectro Obsessivo-Compulsivo (Brazilian Consortium for Research on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder). He is a researcher for the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP, São Paulo Research Foundation) and is the recipient of a 1B Research Productivity Grant from the Brazilian Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development). He is also the Director of the multicenter Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria do Desenvolvimento para Infância e Adolescência (INPD, National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents), which was established under the auspices of the Institutos Nacionais de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT, National Institutes of Science and Technology Program). In the area of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), he is coordinating his third FAPESP-sponsored Program Grant, which is focused on the investigation of neural circuits and biomarkers involved in OCD through the study of behavioral paradigms of fear and anxiety.