Rita Canaipa

Professor Auxiliar

Rita Canaipa

Professor Auxiliar

Bio

Rita Canaipa has a doctorate in Biomedical Sciences, specializing in Neurosciences, and a master's degree in Human Development from the University of Lisbon, where she also obtained a degree in Psychology.

She is recognized by the Order of Portuguese Psychologists in the advanced specialty of Neuropsychology and Psychotherapy and works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

With clinical experience in Fibromyalgia, her research in pain neuroscience explores the interactions between pain, cognition, emotions and interoception, aiming to apply this knowledge in clinical practice and in the training of health professionals.

Her aim is to promote a personalized approach that contributes to improving the quality of life and reducing the pain and suffering of people with chronic pain.

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Publications

Paper

A Escala de Provisões Sociais: Desenvolvimento e validação da versão portuguesa da “Social Provisions Scale

Canaipa, R. , João Manuel Moreira. (2007). A Escala de Provisões Sociais: Desenvolvimento e validação da versão portuguesa da “Social Provisions Scale. Revista Iberoamericana de diagnóstico y evaluación e avaliação psicológica

Docente e Doutoranda da FCSE formadoras em Webinar organizado pela Sociedade Portuguesa de Terapia da Fala

Human Resources: Vai ser lançada a primeira licenciatura em Neurociências em Portugal

Ciclo de Workshops UCP2 Mental Health | Workshop 2 - Dá reset à ansiedade – Sessão 2.1. “Dá reset à ansiedade e reprograma o mindset”

Rita Canaipa

Rita Canaipa

Bio

A Escala de Provisões Sociais: Desenvolvimento e validação da versão portuguesa da “Social Provisions Scale

A psicogénese dos argumentos operatórios : identidade, compensação e reversibilidade em provas piagetianas de conservação

A Psicogénese dos Argumentos Operatórios: Identidade, Compensação e Reversibilidade em provas de Piagetianas de conservação

Can health care providers recognise a fibromyalgia personality?

Correlations between within-subject variability of pain intensity reports and rubber hand illusion proprioceptive drift

En Pointe: Dancers Report Their Pain Less Variably Than Do Controls

En pointe: dancers report their pain less variably than do controls.

Feeling Hurt: Pain Sensitivity is Correlated with and Modulated by Social Distress

Feeling Hurt: Social Rejection Modulates Sensory Dimensions Of Physical Pain

Impaired Pain Modulation in Fibromyalgia Patients in Response to Social Distress Manipulation.

Is anxiety related to higher vulnerability to a body illusion? Results from the classical rubber hand illusion paradigm

Mecanismos de dor nas espondiloartrites e a relação com o desempenho cognitivo

No Relationships Between the Within-Subjects' Variability of Pain Intensity Reports and Variability of Other Bodily Sensations Reports

No Relationships Between the Within-Subjects’ Variability of Pain Intensity Reports and Variability of Other Bodily Sensations Reports

O processamento da dor física e da dor social

Pain accuracy : is there a link between accuracy in pain report and accuracy in interoception and taste tasks?

Pain reporting accuracy and ability to accurately report other bodily sensations in dancers

Pain Reporting Accuracy: Is There a Link Between Accuracy of Pain Report and Accuracy of Reports of Other Sensations?

Relations between short-term memory and the within-subject variability of experimental pain intensity reports: Results from healthy and Fibromyalgia patients

Reliability of the within-subjects variability of pain reports as assessed by the focused analgesia selection test (fast)

Social distress and pain modulation : findings from healthy ans chronic pain patients

Social provision scale, Portuguese version: development and validation study

Test-retest and interrater reliability of experimental within-subject variability of pain reports as assessed by the focused analgesia selection test

The relationship between the ability to detect ascending sensory signals, and the emotions and beliefs in expectations of pain reduction - an experimental conditioning task

True and error variance: Assessing the sources of variability in experimental pain and its relations with pain sensitivity and pain modulation

Variabilidade nos relatos de dor e a sua relação com a memória de curto prazo em indivíduos com fibromialgia

Within-subjects' variability of experimental pain and its relations with pain sensitivity and pain modulation in fibromyalgia

Within-Subjects' Variability of Pain Intensity Reports and Variability of Report of other Bodily Sensations in Dancers