Bruna Bellaver, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Areas of Expertise

  • Older Adults
Bruna Bellaver, PhD
Expertise & Interests Selected Publications Education & Credentials Related News

Expertise & Interests

Research Interests

Aging & Alzheimer's disease; Neuroimaging biomarkers; Fluid biomarkers

Selected Publications

  1. Bellaver B, Povala G, Ferreira PCL, Bauer-Negrini G, Firoza Z. Lussier FZ, Leffa DT, Ferrari-Souza JP, Rodrigues MS, Amaral L, Oliveira MS, Soares C, Rocha A, Saha P, Rahmouni N, Tissot C, Therriault J, Servaes S, Klostranec J, Montembeault M, Benedet AL, Ashton NJ, Koscik RL, Betthauser TJ, Christian BT, Wilson R, Triana-Baltzer G, Vitali P, Gauthier S, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Karikari TK, Tudorascu D, Zimmer ER, Johnson S, Rosa-Neto P, Pascoal TA (2025). Plasma GFAP for populational enrichment of clinical trials in preclinical Alzheimers disease. Alzheimers & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimers Association. May;21(5):e70209.
  2. Bellaver B, De Bastiani MA, Brum WS, Souza DG, Ferreira PCL, Rocha AS, Povala G, Ferrari-Souza JP, Benedet AL, Ashton NJ, Karikari TK, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Rosa-Neto P, Pascoal TA, Zimmer ER (2023). Hippocampal GFAP-positive astrocyte responses to amyloid and tau pathologies. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. Mar 4;110:175-184.
  3. Bellaver B, Povala G, Ferreira PCL, Ferrari-Souza JP, Leffa DT, Lussier FZ, Benedet AL, Ashton NJ, Triana-Baltzer G, Kolb HC, Tissot C, Therriault J, Servaes S, Stevenson J, Rahmouni N, Lopez OL, Tudorascu DL Villemagne VL, Ikonomovic MD, Gauthier S, Zimmer ER, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Aizenstein HJ, Klunk WE, Snitz BE, Maki P, Thurston RC, Cohen AD, Ganguli M, Karikari TK, Rosa-Neto P, Pascoal TA. Astrocyte reactivity influences the association of amyloid- and tau biomarkers in preclinicalAlzheimers disease (2023). Nature Medicine. May 29 doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02380-x.
  4. Bellaver B, Puig-Pijoan A, Ferrari-Souzaa JP, Leffa DT, Lussier FZ, Ferreira PCL, Tissot C, Povala G, Therriault J, Benedet AL, Ashton NJ, Servaes S, Chamoun M, Stevenson J, Rahmouni N, Vermeiren M, Macedo AC, Fernndez-Lebrero A, Garca-Escobar G, Navalpotro-Gmezc I, Lopez O, Tudorascu DL, Cohen A, Villemagne VL, Klunk WE, Gauthier S, Zimmer ER, Karikari TK, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Surez-Calvet M, Rosa-Neto P, Pascoal TA (2023). Blood-brain barrier integrity impacts the use of plasma amyloid- as a proxy of brain amyloid- pathology. Alzheimers & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimers Association. Sep;19(9):3815-3825.
  5. Ferrari-Souza JP, Ferreira PCL, Bellaver B, Tissot C, Wang YT, Leffa DT, Brum WS, Benedet AL, Ashton NJ, De Bastiani MA, Rocha A, Therriault J, Lussier FZ, Chamoun M, Servaes S, Bezgin G, Kang MS, Stevenson J, Rahmouni N, Pallen V, Poltronetti NM, Klunk WE, Tudorascu DL, Cohen AD, Villemagne VL, Gauthier S, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Souza DO, Karikari TK, Zimmer ER, Rosa-Neto P, Pascoal TA. Astrocyte biomarker signatures of amyloid- and tau pathologies in Alzheimer's disease (2022). Mol.Psychiatry. Nov;27(11):4781-4789.
  6. Pascoal TA, Aguzzoli CS, Lussier FZ, Crivelli L, Suemoto CK, Fortea J, Rosa-Neto P, Zimmer ER, Ferreira PCL, Bellaver B (2024). Insights into the use of biomarkers in clinical trials in Alzheimer's disease. EBiomedicine. Oct;108:105322.
  7. Bieger A, Rocha AS, Bellaver B, Machado L, Da Ros L, Borelli WV, Therriault J, Macedo AC, De Bastiani MA, Pascoal TA, Gauthier S, Rosa-Neto P, Zimmer ER (2023). Neuroinflammation biomarkers in the AT(N) framework across the Alzheimers disease continuum. J Prev Alzheimers Dis. 10(3):401-417.

Education & Credentials

Education & Training

Education
PhD, Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Postdoctoral
Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Postdoctoral
Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Professional Affiliations

  • Member, ISTAART Alzheimer's Association

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