RECENTLY CONCLUDED:

• The Masters in Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion European Commission ERASMUS Lifelong Learning (with collaborators in the United Kingdom, Italy and Poland).
  EU Lifelong Learning Programme - 517918-LLP-1-2011-1-UK-ERASMUS-ECDCE
  PI: Miguel Xavier.
  
  
• Prevalence of old age neuropsychiatric disorders: Contribution to mental health policy in Portugal – The 10/66 Dementia Research Group Prevalence Study in Portugal (2011-2014)
  Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (PTDC/SAU EPI/113652/2009)
  PI: Miguel Xavier (in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and the 10/66 Dementia Research Group, coord: Martin Prince).
   
• Actifcare (Access to Timely Formal Care in Dementia) (2014-2017)
  EU-JPND project, coord. Prof. Frans Verhey & Prof. M. de Vugt, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
  Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (FCT - JPND-HC/0001/2012)
  PI for Portugal: Manuel Gonçalves Pereira / field coordinator Maria J. Marques.
  
  
• Dementia in Primary Care: the Patient, the Carer and the Doctor in the Medical Encounter (2019-2023)
  Bayer/NOVASAÚDE AGEING 2018 grant
  PI: Manuel Gonçalves Pereira / field coordinator: Conceição Balsinha.
  
  
• The COGCARE project - cognitive disorders and impact on caregivers: brief technology-assisted measures may be a step forward (2023-2024)
  CHRC/2022 grant
  PI: Manuel Gonçalves Pereira

• Gonçalves-Pereira M, Xavier M, van Wijngaarden B, Papoila AL, Schene AH, Caldas de Almeida JM. Impact of psychosis on Portuguese caregivers: A cross-cultural exploration of burden, distress, positive aspects and clinical-functional correlates. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2013; 48: 325-335. 
• Alves da Silva J, Gonçalves-Pereira M, Xavier M, Mukaetova-Ladinska E. Affective disorders and risk of developing dementia: Systematic review. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2013; 202: 177-86. 
• Wardenaar, K.J., Lim, C.C.W., Al-Hamzawi, A.O., Alonso, J., Andrade, L.H., Benjet, C., Bunting, B., de Girolamo, G., Demyttenaere, K., Florescu, S.E., Gureje, O., Hisateru, T., Hu, C., Huang, Y., Karam, E., Kiejna, A., Lepine, J.P., Navarro-Mateu, F., Oakley Browne, M., Piazza, M., Posada-Villa, J., Ten Have, M.L., Torres, Y., Xavier, M., Zarkov, Z., Kessler, R.C., Scott, K.M., de Jonge, P. The cross-national epidemiology of specific phobia in the World Mental Health Surveys. Psychol. Med, 2017; 47, 1744–1760. 
• Grácio J, Gonçalves-Pereira M, Leff J. Key elements of a family intervention for schizophrenia: A qualitative analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Family Process, 2018; 57 (1): 100-112. 
• Gonçalves-Pereira, M, Prina, AM, Cardoso, AM, da Silva, JA, Prince, M, Xavier, M. The prevalence of late-life depression in a Portuguese community sample: A 10/66 Dementia Research Group study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2019; 246, 674–681. 
• Gonçalves‐Pereira M, Zarit SH, Papoila AL, Mateos R. Positive and negative experiences of caregiving in dementia: The role of sense of coherence. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, 2021; 36(2): 360–367. 
• Balsinha C, Iliffe S, Dias S, Freitas JA, Barreiros F, Gonçalves-Pereira M. Dementia and primary care teams: obstacles to the implementation of Portugal’s Dementia Strategy. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 2022; 23, E10.
• Harris MG, Kazdin AE, Munthali RJ, Vigo DV, Stein DJ, Viana MC, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Al-Hamzawi A, Alonso J, Andrade LH, Bunting B, Chardoul S, Gureje O, Hu C, Hwang I, Karam EG, Navarro-Mateu F, Nishi D, Orozco R, Sampson NA, Scott KM, Vladescu C, Wojtyniak B, Xavier M, Zarkov Z, Kessler RC. Factors associated with satisfaction and perceived helpfulness of mental healthcare: a World Mental Health Surveys report. Int J Ment Health Syst. 2024 Mar 1;18(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s13033-024-00629-7. 
• Gonçalves‐Pereira M, Marques MJ, Alves RF, Jelley H, Wolfs C, Meyer G, Bieber A, Irving K, Hopper L, Zanetti O, Portolani DM, Selbaek G, Rosvik J, Sköldunger A, Sjölund BM, De Vugt M, Verhey F, Woods B, & Actifcare Consortium. Sense of coherence, subjective burden, and anxiety and depression symptoms in caregivers of people with dementia: causal dynamics unveiled by a longitudinal cohort study in Europe. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2025; 371: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.12.078 
• Stein DJ, Ruscio AM, Altwaijri Y, Chiu WT, Sampson NA, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Al-Hamzawi A, Alonso J, Chardoul S, Gureje O, Hu C, Karam EG, McGrath JJ, Navarro-Mateu F, Scott KM, Stagnaro JC, Torres Y, Vladescu C, Wciórka J, Xavier M, Kessler RC; World Mental Health Survey collaborators. Obsessive-compulsive disorder in the World Mental Health surveys. BMC Med. 2025 Jul 9;23(1):416. doi: 10.1186/s12916-025-04209-5. 

RECENT BOOKS AND CHAPTERS:

• Verdelho A, Gonçalves-Pereira M (Eds): Neuropsychiatric symptoms in cognitive impairment and dementia. Springer, 2017. ISBN: 978-3-319-39136-6 (Print) 978-3-319-39138-0 (Online); DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-39138-0.
• Gonçalves-Pereira M, Leuschner A. Chap. 29, Portugal. In: Burns A, Robert P, editors. Dementia Care: International Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2019. ISBN: 9780198796046; DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198796046.001.0001. (pp: 219-230; DOI:10.1093/med/9780198796046.003.0029.
• Balsinha C, Gonçalves-Pereira M, Iliffe S, Freitas JA, Grave J. Healthcare delivery for older people with dementia in primary care. In: de Mendonça-Lima C, Ivbijaro G, editors. Primary Care Mental Health for Older People. Springer, Cham; 2019. ISBN: 978-3-030-10812-0 (Print) 978-3-030-10814-4 (Online) (pp: 311-329; DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-10814-4_23.
• Zhang F, Cheng ST, Gonçalves-Pereira M. Factors contributing to protection and vulnerability in dementia caregivers. In: Martin, C.R., Preedy, V.R. (Eds.), The Neuroscience of Dementia, Vol 2 (Genetics, Neurology, Behavior, and Diet in Dementia). Academic Press, Elsevier, London; 2020. pp. 709–722.
• Xavier M, Narigão M, Domingos P, Pires AM, Gago J, Barreto H, Silva FS. Programa de Desinstitucionalização em Saúde Mental. Ed. CNPSM, Ministério da Saúde. 2021
• Xavier M, Vieira F, Barreto H. Programa de Reconfiguração do Sistema Forense do Ministério da Saúde. Ed. CNPSM, Ministério da Saúde. 2022
• Xavier M et al. A reforma da saúde mental em Portugal. Ed. CNPSM, Ministério da Saúde. 2024

National Health Service Gold Medal for Distinguished Services (Miguel Xavier, 2025)

The group has connections with international networks such as INTERDEM (early and timely INTERventions in DEMentia, the European network of dementia care researchers) and the 10/66 Dementia Research Group, as well as with researchers from other Universities, national and international (for example: University College London, Bangor University, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Penn State University, USI Università della Svizzera italiana).

There are collaborations with different clinical services (hospital and primary health care) and with patient and family associations, such as Alzheimer Portugal.

Former members of the Research Team:

• Ana Rita Moura
• Bernardo Barahona-Corrêa
• Conceição Balsinha
• Jaime Grácio
• Joaquim Alves da Silva
• Maria João Marques
• Pedro Mateus
• Teresa Alves dos Reis