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Medicine graduate from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he also completed his medical residency in Neurology. He holds a PhD in Sciences from the University of São Paulo. He specialized in cognitive neuroscience, with postdoctoral training at the Cognitive Neuroscience Section, NINDS, National Institute of Health, USA. His research focuses on moral behavior and cognition, neuroscience and psychology of prosocial and antisocial behavior, affiliative values and emotions.
The research group is dedicated to the fundamental cognitive mechanisms underlying human social behavior, moral emotions, values, and decisions, including altruism, prospective thinking, and cooperation. We employ functional magnetic resonance imaging, neurofeedback, and other neurotechnological methods.
🏆 NIH Research Fellow Award (2004–2007)
🏆 Affiliated member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2008–2011)
🏆 Board member of the International Neuroethics Society (2012–13)
🏆 President of the World Congress on Brain, Behavior and Emotions, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2015)
🏆 Visiting Researcher, Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University (2015 – present)
Brockington, G, Moreira, APG, Busoc, MS, da Silva SG, Altszylerg E, Fischerh R, and Moll J. Storytelling increases oxytocin and positive emotions and decreases cortisol and pain in hospitalized children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(22):e2018409118, 2021. PMID: 34031240; PMCID: PMC8179166.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2018409118
Moll, J, de Oliveira-Souza R, Basilio R, Bramati IE, Gordon B, Rodríguez-Nieto G, Zahn R, Krueger F, Grafman J. Altruistic decisions following penetrating traumatic brain injury. Brain 141(5), 1558-1569, 2018.
doi: 10.1093/brain/awy064
Moll, Jorge; Krueger, Frank; Zahn, Roland; Pardini, Matteo; de Oliveira-Souza, Ricardo; Grafman, Jordan. Human fronto–mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (42), 15623-15628, 2006. Epub 2006 Oct 9. PMID: 17030808; PMCID: PMC1622872
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604475103
Moll, Jorge; de Oliveira-Souza, Ricardo; Eslinger, Paul J.; Bramati, Ivanei E. et al. The neural correlates of moral sensitivity: a functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of basic and moral emotions. The Journal of Neuroscience, 22 (7), 2730-2736, 2002.
doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-07-02730.2002
Moll, Jorge; Zahn, Roland; de Oliveira-Souza, Ricardo; Krueger, Frank; Grafman, Jordan. The neural basis of human moral cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 6 (10), 799-809, 2005.
doi: 10.1038/nrn1768