• Main Publications
• Ongoing Research Projects
• Participation in Research Networks
• Group’s Recognitions
• Clinical Trials Signed in 2018
• Theses
• Other

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Main Publications

• Amare AT, Schubert KO, Hou L (...Colom F...), Mitchell PB, Bauer M, Alda M, Rietschel M, McMahon FJ, Schulze TG, Baune BT, International Consortium on Lithium Genetics (ConLi+Gen). Association of Polygenic Score for Schizophrenia and HLA Antigen and Inflammation Genes With Response to Lithium in Bipolar Affective Disorder: A Genome-Wide Association Study. JAMA Psychiatry 2018; 75(1): 65-74. IF 16.642. D1.

• Alemany S, Vilor-Tejedor N, García-Esteban R, Bustamante M, Dadvand P, Esnaola M, Mortamais M, Forns J, van Drooge BL, Álvarez-Pedrerol M, Grimalt JO, Rivas I, Querol X, Pujol J, Sunyer J. Traffic-Related Air Pollution, APOE Status, and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes among School Children Enrolled in the BREATHE Project (Catalonia, Spain). Environ Health Perspect 2018; 126(8): 087001. IF 8.309. D1.

• Dadvand P, Pujol J, Macià D, Martínez-Vilavella G, Blanco-Hinojo L, Mortamais M, Álvarez-Pedrerol M, Fenoll R, Esnaola M, Dalmau-Bueno A, López-Vicente M, Basagaña X, Jerrett M, Nieuwenhuijsen M, Sunyer J. The Association between Lifelong Greenspace Exposure and 3-Dimensional Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Barcelona Schoolchildren. Environ Health Perspect 2018; 126(2): 027012. IF 8.309. D1.

• Vilor-Tejedor N, Alemany S, Cáceres A, Bustamante M, Pujol J, Sunyer J, González JR. Strategies for integrated analysis in Imaging Genetics studies. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2018; 93: 57-70. IF 8.037. D1.

• Oriolo G, Egmond E, Mariño Z, Cavero M, Navines R, Zamarrenho L, Solà R, Pujol J, Bargallo N, Forns X, Martín-Santos R. Systematic review with meta-analysis: neuroimaging in hepatitis C chronic infection. Aliment Pharm Therap 2018; 47(9): 1238-1252. IF 7.357. D1.

• Suñol M, Contreras-Rodríguez O, Macià D, Martínez-Vilavella G, Martínez-Zalacaín I, Subirà M, Pujol J, Sunyer J, Soriano-Mas C. Brain Structural Correlates of Subclinical Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in Healthy Children. J Am Acad Child Psy 2018; 57: 41-47. IF 6.25. D1.

• Via E, Fullana MA, Goldberg X, Tinoco-González D, Martínez-Zalacaín I, Soriano-Mas C, Davey CG, Menchón JM, Straube B, Kircher T, Pujol J, Cardoner N, Harrison BJ. Ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity and pathological worry in generalised anxiety disorder. Br J Psychiatry 2018; 213(1): 437-443. IF 5.867. D1.

• Galindo L, Moreno E, López F, Guinart D, Cuenca A, Izquierdo-Serra M, Xicota L, Fernández-Avilés C, Menoyo E, Fernández-Fernández JM, Benítez-King G, Canela EI, Casadó V, Pérez V, de la Torre R, Robledo P. Cannabis Users Show Enhanced Expression of CB1-5HT2A Receptor Heteromers in Olfactory Neuroepithelium Cells.  Mol Neurobiol  2018; 55(8): 6347-6361. IF 5.076. Q1.

• Hidalgo-Mazzei D, Reinares M, Mateu A, Nikolova VL, Bonnín CDM, Samalin L, García-Estela A, Pérez V, Young AH, Strejilevich S, Vieta E, Colom F. OpenSIMPLe: A real-world implementation feasibility study of a smartphone-based psychoeducation programme for bipolar disorder. J Affect Disorders 2018; 241: 436-445. IF 3.786. Q1.

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Ongoing Research Projects

• Optimizing response to Li treatment through personalized evaluation of individuals with bipolar I disorder: the R-LiNK initiative

- Financing institution: European Commission (10972)

- Period: from 2018 to 2022

- Principal investigator: Colom Victoriano, Francesc

• Estudi simple cec, aleatoritzat i controlat per comparar l'eficàcia de l'EMDR vs. TAU en pacients amb trastorn per ús de substàncies i història de trauma psicològic

- Financing institution: Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya (SLT006/17/00038)

- Period: from 2018 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Amann, Benedikt Lorenz

• Avaluació de l'efectivitat i cost-efectivitat d'un programa de prevenció, detecció i abordatge dels trastorns mentals a petites i mitjanes empreses

- Financing institution: Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya (SLT006/17/00354)

- Period: from 2018 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Justícia Díaz, Azucena

• Cognició social i biaixos cognitius en persones amb primers episodis psicòtics en comparació amb esquizofrènia crònica i controls sans

- Financing institution: Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya (SLT006/17/00231)

- Period: from 2018 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Legido Gil, Teresa

• Prevalence of psychological trauma in patients with a recent diagnosis of HIV and the efficacy of EMDR therapy versus TAU in a pilot RCT in clinical symptoms and biological markers of HIV

- Financing institution: EMDR Europe

- Period: from 2018 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Amann, Benedikt Lorenz

• Pilot single blind, randomized controlled study of EMDR versus TAU in inpatients with severe mental disorders and psychological trauma

- Financing institution: EMDR Europe

- Period: from 2018 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Moreno Alcázar, Ana

• Estimulación cerebral profunda en el cíngulo subgeniculado y el núcleo accumbens como tratamiento a pacientes con anorexia nerviosa crónica, severa y refractaria

- Financing institution: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII (PI16/00382)

- Period: from 2017 to 2019

- Principal investigator: Pérez Sola, Víctor

• Single-blind, Randomized Controlled Comparison of EMDR Versus Supportive Therapy in Affective Relapse Prevention in Bipolar Patients With a History of Trauma

- Financing institution: Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (24397)

- Period: from 2017 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Amann, Benedikt Lorenz

• Estudio simple ciego, randomizado y controlado para comparar la eficacia de EMDR vs terapia de apoyo en la prevención de recaídas afectivas en bipolares con evento traumático previo

- Financing institution: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII (PI15/02242)

- Period: from 2016 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Amann, Benedikt Lorenz

• SIMPLeBand: Monitorización pasiva de signos en pacientes con trastorno bipolar en estadios avanzados mediante smartbands para la prevención de recaídas

- Financing institution: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII (PI15/00588)

- Period: from 2016 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Colom Victoriano, Francesc

• Estudio del estado de activación del factor Nrf2 en cultivo primario de pro-neuronas a partir de epitelio olfatorio en el Trastorno Depresivo Mayor

- Financing institution: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII (PI15/00398)

- Period: from 2016 to 2020

- Principal investigator: Álvarez López, Pilar

• Eficacia del programa online iFightDepression para el tratamiento de la depresión leve y moderada

- Financing institution: Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. ISCIII (PI13/00171)

- Period: from 2014 to 2018

- Principal investigator: Pérez Sola, Víctor

 

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Participation in Research Networks

• CIBERSAM – Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental

- Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria. Subprograma CIBER. (CB07/09/0010).

- Principal investigator: Pérez Sola, Víctor

• ConLiGen- Consortium for Lithium Genetics

- Principal investigator: Colom Victoriano, Francesc

• European Alliance Against Depression (EAAD)

- Principal investigator: Pérez Sola, Víctor

 

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Group’s Recognitions

• Officially recognized as a consolidated research group by the Generalitat de Catalunya: Grup de Salut Mental (2017-2020)

- Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (SGR 134)

- Principal investigator: Colom Victoriano, Francesc

• Officially recognized as an emergent research group by the Generalitat de Catalunya: Unitat de Recerca Centre Fòrum (2017-2020)

- Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (SGR 46)

- Principal investigator: Moreno Alcázar, Ana

 

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Clinical Trials Signed in 2018

• Cohorte de depresión resistente al tratamiento en Europa

- Register: 54135419DEP4001

- Principal investigator: Pérez Sola, Víctor

• Seguridad y eficacia de la psilocibina en participantes con depresión refractaria al tratamiento (P-TRD)

- Register: COMP 001

- Principal investigator: Pérez Sola, Víctor

 

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Theses

• Estrada X. Utilidad de la arquitectura del sueño para el diagnóstico del trastorno bipolar pediátrico. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

- Directors: Romero-Cela, S; Pérez Sola, Víctor; Álvarez-Martínez, E.

- Date of defense: 29/06/2018

 

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Other

• Francesc Colom Victoriano. Hestia 2018 Awards for Excellence in Healthcare and Mental Health Research. International University of Catalonia. Date: 08/03/2018.

• Jesús Pujol. Award Ramon Turró for the article When does human brain development end? Evidence of corpus callosum growth up to adulthood. Pujol et al. Annals of Neurology 1993;34;71-75 as the most cited article for 25 years in Experimental Neurobiology. Societat Catalana de Biologia 2018

• Jesús Pujol. Award for the best communication of the 62nd Congress of the Spanish Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AEPNyA).Palma, Illes Balears, 7-9 June 2018. “¿Son TCL y TDAH diferentes síndromes? análisis estructural y funcional cerebrales de los síntomas TCL.”

 

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