Neurosciences
Psychiatry, Mental Health & Addictions
Miquel Casas Brugué
Principal investigators Francisco Collazos Sánchez, Marc Ferrer Vinardel, Pilar Lusilla Palacios, José Antonio Ramos Quiroga, Marta Ribases Haro, Carlos Roncero Alonso | Researchers
María José Argüello Alonso, M Carmen Barral Picado, Eugeni Bruguera Cortada, Natalia Calvo Piñero, Carmina Castellano Tejedor, Gemma Costa Requena, Joan Creixell Sureda, Sara Guila Fidel Kinori, Xavier Agustin Gastaminza Pérez, Laura Gisbert Gustemps, Núria Gómez Barros, Lara Grau López, Carlos Jacas Escarcellé, Nieves Gu Martinez Luna, José antonio Navarro Sanchís, Gloria Palomar Martínez, Gemma Parramon Puig, Marta Quesada Franco, Adil Qureshi, Vanesa Richarte Fernández, Amanda Rodríguez Urrutia, Diana Romero Domínguez, Cristina P Sanchez Mora, Sergi Valero Ventura | Researchers in training Eva Calvo Sanchez, Iris Garcia Martínez, Mireia Pagerols Teixidó, Paula Rovira Lorente | Nursing, Technical, and Administrative Staff Victor Manuel Barrau Alondo, Miquel Jordi Bel Aguado, Rosa Maria Bosch Munsó, Mª Dolores Braquehais Conesa, Emily Brooke Felt, Lucia Cellerino, Marina Comin Zafon, Margarita Corominas Roso, Montserrat Corrales De la Cruz, Constanza Daigre Blanco, Gemma Español Martín, Anna Giannoni Pastor, Victoria López Craver, Viviana Nasillo González, Gemma Nieva Rifa, Maria Begoña Olivares Mariscal, Laia Rodríguez Cintas, Yolanda Santaella Andres, Ana M Villar Moreno
Summary
The Research Group Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addictions Vall d’Hebron Research Institute is a multidisciplinary team that over the past 12 years has focused his scientific activity in research of pathogenetic aspects (focused mainly on genetic determinants), clinical and therapeutic:
- Disorders Neuro-psycho-development (emphasis on Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
- Personality Disorders (with special emphasis on borderline personality disorder).
- Addictive Behaviors (with special emphasis on Dual Pathology and smoking)
- Transcultural Psychiatry
This pathologies are characterized by deficits in basic mental functions, high impulsiveness, learning difficulties, behavioral disorders and addictive behaviors, appearing in the infant stage and having a maximum hatching in adolescence, extend into adulthood and old age, conditioning most maturational and adaptive processes that characterize the human being and limiting the possibility to enjoy an autonomous healthy life, cooperative and contemplating the various peculiarities that differences between races, cultures and religions print the pathoplasty of these disorders.