Scientific Publications
This is a list of recent publications by Dr. Gamboa Arana, focusing on neuroscience, mindfulness, wellbeing, brain health, and non-invasive brain stimulation methods.
Brain Health & Mindfulness

- No add-on therapeutic benefit of at-home anodal tDCS of the primary motor cortex to mindfulness meditation in patients with fibromyalgia. (2024). P. Ramasawmy, OL Gamboa, LC Heim, TT Mai, SE. Schumann, E. Fechner, O. Moschner, Y. Jiang, A. Lesani, I Chakalov, M. Bähr, F. Petzke, A. Antal.
- Daily interaction between meditation and endometriosis pain and the mindfulness effect on pain interference in activities throughout a brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention. (2024). Franca M, OL Gamboa, M.A. Pinho Oliveira.
- Mindfulness intervention effect on endometriosis-related pain dimensions and its mediator role on stress and vitality: A path analysis approach. (2024). Franca M, OL Gamboa, M.A. Pinho Oliveira.
- Mindfulness-Based Intervention effect on the psychophysiological marker of self-regulation in women with endometriosis. (2024). M. Franca M, OL Gamboa, M.A. Pinho Oliveira.
- Cognitive-affective changes mediates the Mindfulness-Based Intervention effect on endometriosis-related pain and mental health: A path analysis approach. (2023). Franca M, OL Gamboa, M.A. Pinho Oliveira.
- Obliviate! Reviewing neural fundamentals of intentional forgetting from a meta-analytic perspective. (2022). OL Gamboa, CP Hu, CE Salas, Yuen.
- A Single-blind, randomized, pilot study of a brief Mindfulness-Based Intervention for the endometriosis-related pain management. (2022). Franca M, OL Gamboa, M.A. Pinho Oliveira.
- Association between severity of pain, perceived stress and vagally-mediated heart rate variability in women with endometriosis. (2021). M. Franca M, OL Gamboa, M.A. Pinho Oliveira. Women Health.
- Assessing the impact of mindfulness attitudes on attentional quality through focused breath induction. (2019). M. Franca, França M, G.K. Tanaka, . B. Velasques, M. Cagy M, P. Ribeiro P, OL Gamboa.
- The challenge of forgetting: Neurobiological mechanisms of auditory directed forgetting. (2018). OL Gamboa*, K. Yuen*, M. Behrens, H. Steinmetz, F.von Wegner.
- Suppress to forget: the effect of a mindfulness–based strategy during an emotional item–directed forgetting paradigm. (2017). OL Gamboa, J. García-Campayo, T. Müller, F.von Wegner.
Brain Plasticity & NIBS

- Bilateral TMS in MCI and healthy controls impacts cognition through induced connectivity. (2023) McAllister, R. Morales, OL Gamboa, M. Dannhauer, M. Woldorff, S. Davis.
- A questionnaire to collect unintended effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A consensus-based approach. (2022). Giustiniani A, Vallesi A, Oliveri M, Tarantino V, Ambrosini E, Bortoletto M, Masina F, Busan P, Siebner H.R, Fadiga L, Koch G, Leocani L, Lefaucher JP, Rotenberg A, Zangen A, Violante I.R, Moliadze V, Gamboa O.L, Ugawa Y., Pascual-Leone A, Ziemann U, Miniussi C, Burgio F.
- Intensity- and timing-dependent modulation of motion perception with transcranial magnetic stimulation of visual cortex. (2020). OL Gamboa, H. Palmer, M. Dannhauer, C. Hile, R. Ramadan, T. Worth, R. Cabeza, S.W. Davis, A. Peterchev, M. Sommer, L.G. Applebaum.
- Editorial: Non invasive stimulation techniques: “Modulating cognition”. (2019). OL Gamboa.
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