Pedro Teixeira participated as a guest in the science dissemination podcast Psychedelic Medicine Podcast, hosted by Lynn Marie Morski. Pedro Teixeira discussed the most recent research in the field of "behavioural psychedelics", a new approach to studying the impact of psychedelic therapy on health behaviour change. The full podcast episode is available HERE.

Jorge Encantado, CIPER Self-Regulation researcher presented an evidence synthesis of eHealth interventions to promote healthy behaviours, included in a series of scientific conferences organized weekly by ISPA - Instituto Universitário. To see the talk click HERE.

Werneck, A., Peralta, M., Tesler, R., & Marques, A. (2022). Cross-sectional and prospective associations of lifestyle risk behaviors clustering with elevated depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older adults. Maturitas, 155, 8-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.09.010

Ihle, A., Gouveia, É. R., Gouveia, B. R., Marques, A., Marconcin, P., Nascimento, M., Jurema, J., Tinôco, M. A., & Kliegel, M. (2022). Cognitive functioning mediates the association of cognitive reserve with health-related quality of life. Sustainability, 14(2), 826. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14020826

Santos, J., Ihle, A., Peralta, M., Domingos, C., Gouveia, É. R., Ferrari, G., Werneck, A., Rodrigues, F., & Marques, A. (2022). Associations of physical activity and television viewing with depressive symptoms of the European adults. Frontiers in Public Health, 9(2240). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.799870

Marconcin, P., Werneck, A. O., Peralta, M., Ihle, A., Gouveia, É. R., Ferrari, G., Sarmento, H., & Marques, A. (2022). The association between physical activity and mental health during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review. BMC Public Health, 22(1), 209. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-12590-6

Pizarro, A. N., Correia, D., Lopes, C., Teixeira, P. J., & Mota, J. (2021). Active and sedentary behaviors in youth (6–14 years old): Data from the IAN-AF survey (2015–2016). Porto Biomedical Journal, 7(1), p e161. doi: 10.1097/j.pbj.0000000000000161

Pedro Teixeira was recognized in Standard University's updated list of the most cited scientists worldwide in their respective fields (top 2%) throughout the year 2020. Other CIPER-FMH colleagues were also included in the lists of highly cited researchers worldwide: Duarte Araújo, Luís B. Sardinha, e Analiza M. Silva. 

The new study led by scientists from Stanford University can be consulted free of charge at https://dx.doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.

Miguel Peralta is a researcher at the Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon. He holds a bachelor degree in Sport Sciences and master’s degrees’ in Physical Education and in Public Health by the National School of Public Health. Recently, he finished is PhD in Health Education at the Faculty of Human Kinetics with a work focused on the role of Physical Education for promoting health-related cardiorespiratory fitness. His research interests are focused on physical activity epidemiology and health promotion, having published several international peer-reviewed articles in this field.