Alexandre Mendonça

  • Researcher
  • Investigador/a Coordenador/a
Biographical note

Alexandre de Mendonça graduated at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, in 1982, obtained the title of Specialist in Neurology in 1991, the Ph.D. degree in Medicine (Neurology) at the University of Lisbon in 1995 and accomplished the Agregação degree in Medicine (Neurology) at the University of Lisbon in 2001. He is presently Investigador Coordenador and invited Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon. His main scientific areas of research are the cognitive decline of ageing and the neurophysiological basis for memory. He participated and coordinated research projects on basic neurosciences as well as clinical trials in dementia and mild cognitive impairment and is author of more than 150 full publications in international journals subjected to peer review.