Tiago Arruda Sanchez

Tiago Arruda Sanchez, Ph.D., is professor in Department of Radiology at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), School of Medicine, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology at University of São Paulo (USP), with a focus on neuroimaging and human emotion regulation. He worked on the first fMRI study about closed-eye imagery following Ayahuasca ingestion. Nowadays, he is specifically working on the effects of Ayahuasca in emotion regulation and his therapeutical potential for psychiatry. Dr. Tiago Arruda has experience in different areas of human behavioral neuroscience: emotion regulation, cognitive skills, motor plasticity, psychopharmacology and other research in psychiatry and neurology such as depression, anxiety, multiple sclerosis and migraine.