Research Interest

Multidisciplinary research in mental health, with a particular focus on mood disorders, anxiety, and the compulsive spectrum

Technologies & Methods

• Clinical and neurocognitive evaluations
• Acquisition and analysis of structural and functional neuroimaging data
• Genetic and epigenetic analyses
• Neuromodulation techniques
• Cognitive-behavioral intervention techniques
• Mobile health techniques (mHealth)

Active Projects

Habits and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Neurogenetic Perspective. Ministry of Science and Innovation. PID2022-139081OB-C22. Carles Soriano-Mas

Boosting Societal Adaptation and Mental Health in a Rapidly Digitalising, Post-Pandemic Europe. HORIZON – HADEA. European Commission. 101080238. José M. Menchón

Prospective study of biomarkers and clinical predictors of long-term evolution and response to treatment in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the Barcelona cohort (B-OCDC). Marató TV3. 202201 30 31 32 33. Ma. Del Pino, Carles Soriano-Mas

Biomarcadores multiómicos periféricos predictores de la evolución a largo plazo del Trastorno Obsesivo-Compulsivo: la cohorte TOC Barcelona (OCD-BC). Carlos III Health Institute. PI22/00752. Ma. Del Pino Alonso

Evolución a largo plazo, respuesta a tratamiento y recaídas de los trastornos de la compulsividad: biomarcadores neuroinflamatorios, neuropsicológicos y de neuroimagen. Carlos III Health Institute PI22/00956. José M. Menchón

Selected Publications

• • Miranda-Olivos, R., Baenas, I., Steward, T. et al. Exploring the influence of circulating endocannabinoids and nucleus accumbens functional connectivity on anorexia nervosa severity. Mol Psychiatry (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-023-02253-2

• • Segal, A., Parkes, L., Aquino, K. et al. Regional, circuit and network heterogeneity of brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders. Nat Neurosci 26, 1613–1629 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01404-6

• • Cano, M., Lee, E., Polanco, C., Barbour, T., Ellard, K. K., Andreou, B., Uribe, S., Henry, M. E., Seiner, S., Cardoner, N., Soriano-Mas, C., & Camprodon, J. A. (2023). Brain volumetric correlates of electroconvulsive therapy versus transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-resistant depression. Journal of affective disorders, 333, 140–146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.03.093

• • Bertolín, S., Alonso, P., Martínez-Zalacaín, I., Menchón, J. M., Jimenez-Murcia, S., Baker, J. T., Bargalló, N., Batistuzzo, M. C., Boedhoe, P. S. W., Brennan, B. P., Feusner, J. D., Fitzgerald, K. D., Fontaine, M., Hansen, B., Hirano, Y., Hoexter, M. Q., Huyser, C., Jahanshad, N., Jaspers-Fayer, F., Kuno, M., … Soriano-Mas, C. (2023). Right Prefrontal Cortical Thickness Is Associated With Response to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Children With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 62(4), 403–414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2022.07.865

• • Picó-Pérez, M., Fullana, M. A., Albajes-Eizagirre, A., Vega, D., Marco-Pallarés, J., Vilar, A., Chamorro, J., Felmingham, K. L., Harrison, B. J., Radua, J., & Soriano-Mas, C. (2023). Neural predictors of cognitive-behavior therapy outcome in anxiety-related disorders: a meta-analysis of task-based fMRI studies. Psychological medicine, 53(8), 3387–3395. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721005444