Dr. Joyce Teixeira Da Silva, PhD, Biography
About Dr. Joyce Teixeira Da Silva (she, her, hers) 
Dr. Da Silva, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neural and Pain Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry, received her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. While in her PhD program, she also finished a residency in pain management. She completed a one-year international PhD internship at the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), followed by a joint postdoctoral fellowship at UMB and Johns Hopkins University where she studied brain mechanisms underlying sex and age differences in chronic pain in humans and animal models.
Dr. Da Silva has been the recipient of various awards for her research efforts and commitment to STEM, including awards from the Society for Neuroscience, the NIH-funded ASCEND and the NSF-funded AGEP PROMISE programs.
Research interests
Dr. Da Silva’s research program employs an innovative, multiscale, interdisciplinary approach to evaluating the role of sex and age in how chronic pain drives comorbid emotional disorders, such as anxiety and depression.
Her lab investigates brain mechanisms related to sex and age differences in chronic pain conditions in rodents and humans, as well as pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments that could potentially reverse changes induced by pain and emotional comorbidities.
The ultimate goal of her research is to yield novel insights for personalized therapy.
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