Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology
The presence of psychiatric and psychological disorders is observed in approximately 15% of children and adolescents. Studying the disorders’ characteristics at these ages is important to establish an early diagnosis and intervention in order to improve their prognosis. This programme investigates the genetic bases and clinical, cognitive, and neuroimaging characteristics of the most prevalent psychiatric and psychological diseases in children and adolescents: disorders related to eating, depression, anxiety, emotional upsets, attention deficit and hyperactivity, autistic disorders and psychotic disorders, among others.
Technologies & Methods
- Neuroimaging
- Genetics
Research Team
Susana Andres
Medical Assistant Professor
Inmaculada Baeza
Medical Assistant Professor
Rosa Calvo
Medical Assistant Professor
Maria Luisa Lazaro
Medical Assistant Professor
Astrid Morer
MedicalAssistantProfessor
Ana Blazquez
Postdoctoral Researcher
Itziar Flamarique
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sara Lera
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ana Encarnacion Ortiz
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ana Perez
Postdoctoral Researcher
Maria Teresa Plana
Postdoctoral Researcher
Soledad Romero
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mireia Rosa
Postdoctoral Researcher
Pilar Santamarina
Postdoctoral Researcher
Elena De la Serna
Postdoctoral Researcher
Gisela Sugranyes
Postdoctoral Researcher
Patricia Camprodon
Postdoctoral Researcher
Blanca Garcia
Early Stage Researcher
Daniel Ilzarbe
Postdoctoral Researcher
Olga Puig Navarro
Medical Assistant Professor
Active Projects
Salud Mental (CIBERSAM)
Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. CB07/09/0004. Eduard Vieta.
Biomarcadores multi-omics periféricos como predictores de evolución a largo plazo en el Trastorno Obsesivo-Compulsivo: la cohorte TOC Barcelona (OCD-BC)
Instituto de Salud Carlos III. PI22/00843. Maria Luisa.
Influencia de las vacunas, biomarcadores infecciosos e inmunológicos y análisis de las redes transcriptoma-interactoma en el curso de los trastornos de tics: un estudio longitudinal (COURSE-CAT).
Instituto de Salud Carlos III. PI20/01056. Maria Astrid.
AUTISM INNOVATIVE MEDICINE STUDIES-2-TRIALS
Unió Europea. 777394. Rosa Maria.
Clinical, cognitive, neuroimaging and epigenetic characteristics of the child and adolescent offspring of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: a predictive model of psychopathology and functioning at ten-year follow-up
Fundació La Marató de TV3. 202222-10. Josefa.
Prospective study of biomarkers and clinical predictors of longterm outcome and response to treatment in obsessive- compulsive disorder: the Barcelona OCD COHORT
Fundació La Marató de TV3. 202201-32. Maria Luisa.
Interacción genética y ambiente en hijos de pacientes con esquizofrenia o trastorno bipolar.
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. PI21/00519. Josefa.
Estudio multicéntrico longitudinal sobre marcaadores de predicción de la transición a psicosis en niños y adolescentes con riesgo de psicosis: El papel del estrés intrauterino
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. PI21/00391. Inmaculada.
Estudio longitudinal de pacientes con trastorno psicótico de inicio temprano: cambios epigenéticos y su asociación con variables clínicas, cognitivas y de neuroimagen
Fundación Alicia Koplowitz. A.KOPLOWITZ22_02. Inmaculada.
Desarrollo y evaluación inicial de una plataforma digital de terapia cognitivo-conductural para el trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo pediátrico
Fundación Alicia Koplowitz. A.KOPLOWITZ_23_02. Maria Luisa.
Evolución clínica y funcional a los 12 meses en adolescentes con trastorno por estrés postraumático secundario a una agresión sexual: estudio de predicción multimodal basado en aprendizaje automático de datos clínicos y de neuroimagen
Fundación Alicia Koplowitz. A.KOPLOWITZ22_06. Olga.
1/7-Collaborative Genomics Studies of Tourette Disorder
National Institutes of Health (NIH). 671128. Maria Astrid.
Estudio del papel de la REServa Cognitiva en AdolescenTEs (RESCATE) con Trastorno por consumo de cannabis
Ministerio de Sanidad. 2022I053. Inmaculada.
Placebo-controlled trial in subjects at Ultra-high Risk for Psychosis with Omega-3 fatty acids in Europe
Utrecht University. 2015-003503-39. Inmaculada.
Child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology group (GRUPPIC)
Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR). 2021 SGR 01319. Josefa.
Running in the FAMILY – Understanding and predicting the intergenerational transmission of mental illness
EUROPEAN COMISSION. 101057529.
Selected publications
Baeza, I., de la Serna, E., Mezquida, G., Cuesta, M. J., Vieta, E., Amoretti, S., Lobo, A., González-Pinto, A., Díaz-Caneja, C. M., Corripio, I., Valli, I., Puig, O., Mané, A., Bioque, M., Ayora, M., Bernardo, M., Castro-Fornieles, J., García-Rizo, C., González-Díaz, J., … Balanzá-Martínez, V. (2024). Prodromal symptoms and the duration of untreated psychosis in first episode of psychosis patients: what differences are there between early vs. adult onset and between schizophrenia vs. bipolar disorder? European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 33(3), 799–810. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02196-7
Butjosa, A., Usall, J., Vila-Badia, R., Mezquida, G., Cuesta, M. J., Rodríguez-Toscano, E., Amoretti, S., Lobo, A., González-Pinto, A., Espliego, A., Corripio, I., Vieta, E., Baeza, I., Bergé, D., Bernardo, M., Bioque, M., García-Rizo, C., Mayoral, M., Merchan, J., … Selva-Vera, G. (2023). Impact of traumatic life events on clinical variables of individuals with first-episode psychosis and healthy controls. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 69(1), 134–145. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640211070398
Camprodon-Boadas, P., De la Serna, E., Plana, M. T., Flamarique, I., Lázaro, L., Borràs, R., Baeza, I., Tasa-Vinyals, E., Sugranyes, G., Ortiz, A. E., & Castro-Fornieles, J. (2023). Delusional beliefs in adolescents with anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or first-episode psychosis: A comparative study. Psychiatry Research, 328, 115490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115490
Camprodon-Boadas, P., Rosa-Justicia, M., Sugranyes, G., Moreno, D., Baeza, I., Ilzarbe, D., Martínez Díaz-Caneja, C., Ayora, M., Merchan, J., Martín, N., Borras, R., García-Rizo, C., Torrent, C., Castro-Fornieles, J., & de la Serna, E. (2023). Cognitive reserve and its correlates in child and adolescent offspring of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32(8), 1463–1473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-01957-0
Fortea, A., van Eijndhoven, P., Calvet-Mirabent, A., Ilzarbe, D., Batalla, A., de la Serna, E., Puig, O., Castro-Fornieles, J., Dolz, M., Tor, J., Parrilla, S., Via, E., Stephan-Otto, C., Baeza, I., & Sugranyes, G. (2024). Age-related change in cortical thickness in adolescents at clinical high risk for psychosis: a longitudinal study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 33(6), 1837–1846. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02278-6
Fortea, A., van Eijndhoven, P., Ilzarbe, D., Batalla, A., Calvet-Mirabent, A., de la Serna, E., Puig, O., Castro-Fornieles, J., Dolz, M., Tor, J., Parrilla, S., Via, E., Stephan-Otto, C., Baeza, I., & Sugranyes, G. (2023). Longitudinal Changes in Cortical Surface Area Associated With Transition to Psychosis in Adolescents at Clinical High Risk for the Disease. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 62(5), 593–600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2023.01.001
Masias Bruns, M., Ramirez-Mahaluf, J. P., Valli, I., Ortuño, M., Ilzarbe, D., de la Serna, E., Navarro, O. P., Crossley, N. A., González Ballester, M. Á., Baeza, I., Piella, G., Castro-Fornieles, J., & Sugranyes, G. (2024). Altered Temporal Dynamics of Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Adolescent-Onset First-Episode Psychosis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 50(2), 418–426. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbad107
Segura, A. G., de la Serna, E., Sugranyes, G., Baeza, I., Valli, I., Díaz-Caneja, C., Martín, N., Moreno, D. M., Gassó, P., Rodriguez, N., Mas, S., & Castro-Fornieles, J. (2023). Epigenetic age deacceleration in youth at familial risk for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Translational Psychiatry, 13(1), 155. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02463-w
Segura, A. G., Mané, A., Prohens, L., Rodriguez, N., Mezquida, G., Cuesta, M. J., Vieta, E., Amoretti, S., Lobo, A., González-Pinto, A., Diaz-Caneja, C. M., Bejarano, A. R., Jimenez, E., Baeza, I., Legido, T., Saiz-Ruiz, J., Bernardo, M., & Mas, S. (2023). Exploration of cannabis use and polygenic risk scores on the psychotic symptom progression of a FEP cohort. Psychiatry Research, 325, 115249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115249
Zwicker, A., Fullerton, J. M., Mullins, N., Rice, F., Hafeman, D. M., van Haren, N. E. M., Setiaman, N., Merranko, J. A., Goldstein, B. I., Ferrera, A. G., Stapp, E. K., de la Serna, E., Moreno, D., Sugranyes, G., Herrero, S. M., Roberts, G., Toma, C., Schofield, P. R., Edenberg, H. J., … Uher, R. (2023). Polygenic Scores and Onset of Major Mood or Psychotic Disorders Among Offspring of Affected Parents. American Journal of Psychiatry, 180(4), 285–293. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20220476