Education & Training
- Ph.D.: Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2011
- M.D.: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), 2003
Major Awards
- Fellow, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 2026
- Labatt Family Professorship in Biology of Depression, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, 2020
Research Interests
I am a geriatric psychiatrist with broad research expertise and interests. My lab (https://websites.washu.edu/tbrain/) is dedicated to advance the understanding of healthy brain aging, neuropsychiatric, and neurodegenerative disorders using multi-omic approaches. Our projects combines multiple approaches, including clinical trials, biomarker development (wet lab), experimental medicine models (wet lab), and big data approaches (dry lab) to develop the next-generation of biomarkers to understand the intersection of serious mental illnesses, biological aging acceleration, and adverse psychiatric (e.g., response to treatment) and health outcomes (e.g., higher risk of dementia).
Recent Publications
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Physical activity, health symptoms, and falls in older adults with different cognition levels: evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Malatyali, A., Xie, R., Ojo, E. O., Lopez, J., Diniz, B. S., Kim, D., Cidav, T. & Thiamwong, L., Dec 2026, In: BMC Geriatrics. 26, 1, 369.
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Peripheral GABAergic markers in late-life depression: Links to clinical outcomes
Rezaei, S., Sibille, E., Voineskos, D., Rajji, T. K., Nikolova, Y. S., Diniz, B. S. & Vieira, E. L., Sep 1 2026, In: Brain Research. 1886, 150365.
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Angiogenesis markers and cognitive response in a randomized trial of cognitive remediation plus transcranial direct current stimulation in older adults at risk of dementia
on behalf of the PACt-MD Study Group, Aug 2026, In: Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. 112, 3, p. 1314-1323 10 p.
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Reduced circulating progenitor cells in older adults with major depression: Evidence of accelerated biological aging
Vieira, E. L., El-Ahmad, P., Nikolova, Y., Rajji, T. & Diniz, B. S., May 2026, In: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity – Health. 53, 101211.
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Plasma but not salivary p-Tau181 reflects Alzheimer’s disease in a Latin American Cohort
Santos, L. T. R., Costa, F. L., Rosa, I. D., Frota, A. F., Bezerra, J. R., Soares, M. V. R., Barbosa, C. D. S. N., Farias, J. W. F., da Silva, L. R. A. M., Gonçalves, P. V. D. S., Coelho Filho, J. M., Lôbo, R. R., Teixeira, A. L., Diniz, B. S., Peixoto Junior, A. A. & Macedo, D. S., Feb 15 2026, In: Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 481, 125762.