Graduated in Medicine - Universidad Industrial de Santander (1994) Colombia, master's degree in Psychobiology from the University of São Paulo - RP (1998) and PhD in Sciences (Human Physiology) from the University of São Paulo - RP (2002). Post-doctoral funded by FAPESP at the University of São Paulo – RP, and Post-doctoral and health worker in Spain with the University of Murcia, funded by CIBERNED (Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red para Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas). She was a contract professor at Universidad de Santander, Colombia. With experience in Physiology, with an emphasis on Neurophysiology, working mainly on the following topics: Nitric Oxide, hippocampus and antinociception, antinociception and stress, antipsychotics and extrapyramidal side effects, Parkinson's and neurodegenerative diseases in rodents and non-human primates. Currently Associate Professor 1 at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), at the Center for Mathematics, Computing and Cognition, area of Neuropsychopharmacology and Cognition, and researcher at the Nucleus of Cognition and Complex Systems.