MOOD, ANXIETY AND OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE AND RELATED DISORDERS

Principal Investigators

Carles Soriano-Mas

Associate professor

OCD, anxiety, mood disorders, neuroimaging

José M. Menchón

Associate Professor

OCD, compulsivity, clinical and neurocognitive assessments

Ma. Del Pino Alonso

Lecturer

OCD, compulsivity, genetics, neuromodulation

Research team

 

José M. Crespo

Lecturer

 

Cinto Segalàs

Lecturer

 

Eva Real

Lecturer

 

Sara Bertolín

Early Stage Researcher

 

Ignacio Martínez-Zalacaín

Early Stage Researcher

 

Aida de Arriba

Early Stage Researcher

 

Sergi López

Early Stage Researcher

 

Carla del Río

Early Stage Researcher

 

Ana Pamela Chavarría

Early Stage Researcher

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 disorders333, 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 Psychiatry62(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 medicine53(8), 3387–3395. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721005444