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Alberto Fernández-Teruel

Alberto Fernández-Teruel

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Psychology

D-Index
53
Citations
8979
World Ranking
4859
National Ranking
51

Overview

Alberto Fernández-Teruel is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to stress responses, neuroendocrine regulation, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, and neural mechanisms underlying memory and receptor signaling.

Their main field of study is Neuroscience, with specific contributions to several subfields, including:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Significant topics addressed in their body of work include:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders

Fernández-Teruel has published in a range of academic journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Current Neuropharmacology
  • Physiology & Behavior
  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • Behavioural Processes
  • Brain Sciences

Their recent papers illustrate the diversity and focus of their research:

  • Revisiting the role of anxiety in the initial acquisition of two-way active avoidance: pharmacological, behavioural and neuroanatomical convergence (2020) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Post-encounter freezing during approach-avoidance conflict: the role of the hippocampus (2023) in Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • Sex-specific effects of psychedelics on prepulse inhibition of startle in 129S6/SvEv mice (2021) in Psychopharmacology
  • Neurobehavioral and neurodevelopmental profiles of a heuristic genetic model of differential schizophrenia- and addiction-relevant features: The RHA vs. RLA rats (2021) in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Increased thin-spine density in frontal cortex pyramidal neurons in a genetic rat model of schizophrenia-relevant features (2021) in European Neuropsychopharmacology

Collaboration plays a role in their scientific output, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Toñi Cañete
  • Adolf Tobeña
  • Daniel Sampedro-Viana
  • Ignasi Oliveras
  • Cristóbal Río-Álamos

Best Publications

  • Hyperalgesia, anxiety, and decreased hypoxic neuroprotection in mice lacking the adenosine A1 receptor

    Björn Johansson;Linda Halldner;Thomas V. Dunwiddie;Susan A. Masino

  • A behavioral assessment of Ts65Dn mice: a putative Down syndrome model

    Rosa M. Escorihuela;Alberto Fernández-Teruel;Iria F. Vallina;Carmela Baamonde

  • Modeling behavioral and neuronal symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in mice: A role for intraneuronal amyloid

    L. Giménez-Llort;G. Blázquez;T. Cañete;B. Johansson

  • Inbred Roman High- and Low-Avoidance Rats: Differences in Anxiety, Novelty-Seeking, and Shuttlebox Behaviors

    R.M Escorihuela;A Fernández-Teruel;L Gil;R Aguilar

  • Neonatal Handling and Environmental Enrichment Effects on Emotionality, Novelty/Reward Seeking, and Age-Related Cognitive and Hippocampal Impairments: Focus on the Roman Rat Lines

    A. Fernández-Teruel;R. M. Escorihuela;B. Castellano;B. González

  • Mice lacking the adenosine A1 receptor are anxious and aggressive, but are normal learners with reduced muscle strength and survival rate

    Lydia Giménez-Llort;Alberto Fernández-Teruel;Rosa Maria Escorihuela;Bertil B. Fredholm

  • Early-life handling stimulation and environmental enrichment: are some of their effects mediated by similar neural mechanisms?

    Alberto Fernández-Teruel;Lydia Giménez-Llort;Rosa M. Escorihuela;Luis Gil

  • Impaired short- and long-term memory in Ts65Dn mice, a model for Down syndrome

    Rosa M Escorihuela;Iria F Vallina;Carmen Martı́nez-Cué;Carmela Baamonde

  • Combined sequence-based and genetic mapping analysis of complex traits in outbred rats

    A. Baud;R. Hermsen;V. Guryev;P. Stridh

  • Genetic Selection and Differential Stress Responses : The Roman Lines/Strains of Rats

    P. Driscoll;R.M. Escorihuela;A. Fernández-Teruel;A. Fernández-Teruel;O. Giorgi

  • A quantitative trait locus influencing anxiety in the laboratory rat.

    Alberto Fernández-Teruel;Rosa M. Escorihuela;Jeffrey A. Gray;Raúl Aguilar

  • Effects of Postnatal Handling of Rats on Emotional, HPA-Axis, and Prolactin Reactivity to Novelty and Conflict

    Juan Francisco Núñez;Pilar Ferré;Rosa María Escorihuela;Adolf Tobeña

  • Impulsivity Characterization in the Roman High- and Low-Avoidance Rat Strains: Behavioral and Neurochemical Differences

    Margarita Moreno;Diana Cardona;Maria José Gómez;Fernando Sánchez-Santed

  • Personality dimensions, schizotypal and borderline personality traits and psychosis proneness

    Carles Muntaner;Lluis Garcia-Sevilla;Alberto Fernandez;Rafael Torrubia

  • The early acquisition of two-way (shuttle-box) avoidance as an anxiety-mediated behavior: Psychopharmacological validation

    A. FernÁndez-Teruel;R.M. Escorihuela;J.F. Núñez;A. Zapata

  • Enduring effects of environmental enrichment on novelty seeking, saccharin and ethanol intake in two rat lines (RHA/Verh and RLA/Verh) differing in incentive-seeking behavior.

    A Fernández-Teruel;P Driscoll;L Gil;R Aguilar

  • Working memory deficits in transgenic rats overexpressing human adenosine A2A receptors in the brain.

    Lydia Giménez-Llort;Serge N. Schiffmann;Tanja Shmidt;Laia Canela

  • Environmental enrichment and postnatal handling prevent spatial learning deficits in aged hypoemotional (Roman high-avoidance) and hyperemotional (Roman low-avoidance) rats.

    R M Escorihuela;A Tobeña;A Fernández-Teruel

  • Early stimulation effects on novelty-induced behavior in two psychogenetically-selected rat lines with divergent emotionality profiles

    A Fernández-Teruel;R.M Escorihuela;J.F Núñez;M Gomà

  • Behavior of the Roman-Verh high- and low- avoidance rat lines in anxiety tests: relationship with defecation and self-grooming

    P. Ferré;A. Fernández-Teruel;R.M. Escorihuela;P. Driscoll

  • A quantitative trait locus influencing anxiety in the laboratory rat

    J Flint;A Fernandez-Teruel;R M Escorihuela;J A Gray

Frequent Co-Authors

Rosa M. Escorihuela
Rosa M. Escorihuela Autonomous University of Barcelona
Jonathan Flint
Jonathan Flint University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Mott
Richard Mott University College London
Tatiana Foroud
Tatiana Foroud Indiana University
Mauricio R. Papini
Mauricio R. Papini Texas Christian University
Rafael Torrubia
Rafael Torrubia Autonomous University of Barcelona
Dominique Gauguier
Dominique Gauguier McGill University
Anna F. Dominiczak
Anna F. Dominiczak University of Glasgow
Timothy J. Aitman
Timothy J. Aitman University of Edinburgh
Donna M. Muzny
Donna M. Muzny Baylor College of Medicine

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