Jansen Fernandes

Jansen Fernandes is graduated in Physical Education (FSBA) and specialist in Exercise Physiology at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP). Master (2012) and Ph.D. (2017) in Neurology/Neuroscience (UNIFESP). He worked as Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA (2015-2016) and Cajal Institute (CSIC), Madrid-Spain (2019-2020). Currently, he works as a postdoctoral fellow (UNIFESP) investigating the epigenetic mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of physical exercise in the brain of maternally separated offspring. His long-standing interest has been in understanding the mechanistic basis of how physical exercise improves brain function and mitigates the deleterious effects of some neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. In search of this, he authored and co-authored a series of studies raising the potential mechanisms by which physical exercise improves learning and memory as well as protects the brain in conditions such as epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, aging, and sleep deprivation.