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Affiliations

• ¹ Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal; Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus da Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
• ² Neurological Imaging Department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal; Clinical Pharmachology Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ³ Psychiatry Department, Department of Neurosciences, Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal; Clínica Universitária de Psiquiatria, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal; CNS, Campus Neurológico Sénior, Torres Vedras, Portugal.
• ⁴ Psychiatry Department, Department of Neurosciences, Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ⁵ Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal; Institute for Systems and Robotics (LARSyS) and Department of Bioengineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Electronic address: ritagnunes@tecnico.ulisboa.pt.