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Antoni Bulbena is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology and subfields such as Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, General Health Professions, Education, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Bulbena's work covers multiple key topics, including Pain Management and Opioid Use, Health, Medicine and Society, Youth Substance Use and School Attendance, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Family Caregiving in Mental Illness, Pediatric Pain Management Techniques, and Psychiatric care and mental health services.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Antoni Bulbena include:

  • Family Features of Social Withdrawal Syndrome (Hikikomori), 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Pain in Older Adults With Dementia: A Survey in Spain, 2020, Frontiers in Neurology
  • Predictors of hospital admission during home follow-up with a crisis resolution and home treatment team on 1045 patients with schizophrenia, 2025, International Journal of Mental Health
  • Education on the Challenges of Recognizing Pain in Cognitive Impairment, Especially in Dementia, and Training on the Use of the PAIC15 Observational Scale, 2024, Preprints.org
  • Doctoral theses on forensic medicine in Spain, 2020, Spanish Journal of Legal Medicine

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Frontiers in Psychiatry, Frontiers in Neurology, International Journal of Mental Health, Preprints.org, and the Spanish Journal of Legal Medicine.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • A. Malagón
  • David Córcoles
  • M. Bellsolà
  • Víctor Pérez
  • Lydia Giménez-Llort

Antoni Bulbena's research integrates interdisciplinary approaches, aligning psychological clinical insights with medical applications, especially in pain management and mental health. Their work includes investigations on social withdrawal syndromes, dementia-related pain recognition, hospital admission predictors for schizophrenia patients, and educational challenges in cognitive impairment assessment.

Best Publications

  • Global and regional gray matter reductions in ADHD: A voxel-based morphometric study

    S. Carmona;O. Vilarroya;A. Bielsa;V. Trèmols

  • A polymorphic genomic duplication on human chromosome 15 is a susceptibility factor for panic and phobic disorders.

    Mònica Gratacòs;Marga Nadal;Rocı́o Martı́n-Santos;Miguel Angel Pujana

  • An independent components and functional connectivity analysis of resting state fMRI data points to neural network dysregulation in adult ADHD.

    Elseline Hoekzema;Susana Carmona;Susana Carmona;J. Antoni Ramos‐Quiroga;Vanesa Richarte Fernández

  • Ventro-striatal reductions underpin symptoms of hyperactivity and impulsivity in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Susanna Carmona;Erika Proal;Elseline A. Hoekzema;Juan-Domingo Gispert

  • Cross validation with the mood disorder questionnaire (MDQ) of an instrument for the detection of hypomania in Spanish: the 32 item hypomania symptom check list (HCL-32).

    E. Vieta;J. Sánchez-Moreno;A. Bulbena;L. Chamorro

  • Anxiety disorders in the joint hypermobility syndrome

    Antoni Bulbena;Joan C. Duró;Miguel Porta;Rocío Martín-Santos

  • Joint hypermobility syndrome is a risk factor trait for anxiety disorders: a 15-year follow-up cohort study

    Antoni Bulbena;Jordi Gago;Guillem Pailhez;Lili Sperry

  • Gray matter volume deficits and correlation with insight and negative symptoms in first-psychotic-episode subjects

    D. Bergé;S. Carmona;M. Rovira;A. Bulbena

  • Psychiatric co-morbidity and substance use disorders: treatment in parallel systems or in one integrated system?

    Marta Torrens;Paola C. Rossi;Roser Martinez-Riera;Diana Martinez-Sanvisens

  • Clinical and prognostic implications of seasonal pattern in bipolar disorder: a 10-year follow-up of 302 patients.

    J. M. Goikolea;F. Colom;A. Martínez-Arán;J. Sánchez-Moreno

  • Enhanced neural activity in frontal and cerebellar circuits after cognitive training in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Elseline Hoekzema;Susanna Carmona;Virginia Tremols;Joan Domingo Gispert

  • Mind-Body Interactions in Anxiety and Somatic Symptoms.

    Núria Mallorquí-Bagué;Antonio Bulbena;Guillem Pailhez;Sarah N. Garfinkel

  • Pediatric OCD structural brain deficits in conflict monitoring circuits: a voxel-based morphometry study.

    Susanna Carmona;Nuria Bassas;Mariana Rovira;Joan-Domingo Gispert

  • JOINT HYPERMOBILITY SYNDROME AND ANXIETY DISORDERS

    A. Bulbena;J.C. Duro;A. Mateo;M. Porta

  • Response inhibition and reward anticipation in medication‐naïve adults with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A within‐subject case‐control neuroimaging study

    Susana Carmona;Elseline Hoekzema;J. Antoni Ramos-Quiroga;Vanesa Richarte

  • Predictors of Relapse and Functioning in First-Episode Psychosis: A Two-Year Follow-Up Study

    Daniel Bergé;Anna Mané;Purificacion Salgado;Romina Cortizo

  • Neural correlates of impaired emotional discrimination in borderline personality disorder: an fMRI study.

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Juan Carlos Carlos Pascual;Susanna Carmona;Elseline Hoekzema

  • Attitudes and Views on Psychiatry: A Comparison Between Spanish and U.S. Medical Students

    Guillem Pailhez;Antonio Bulbena;Joaquim Coll;Salvador Ros

  • Joint hypermobility, anxiety and psychosomatics: two and a half decades of progress toward a new phenotype.

    Antoni Bulbena;Guillem Pailhez;Andrea Bulbena-Cabré;Nuria Mallorquí-Bagué

  • Predictors of antidepressant treatment outcome in melancholia: psychosocial, clinical and biological indicators.

    Julio Vallejo;C. Gasto;R. Catalan;A. Bulbena

  • Sensitivity to change, discriminative performance, and cutoff criteria to define remission for embedded short scales of the Hamilton depression rating scale (HAMD).

    Javier Ballesteros;Julio Bobes;Antonio Bulbena;Antonio Luque

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan C. Pascual
Juan C. Pascual King's College London
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Miquel A. Fullana
Miquel A. Fullana Clínic Barcelona
Rocío Martín-Santos
Rocío Martín-Santos University of Barcelona
Ana González-Pinto
Ana González-Pinto University of the Basque Country
Josefina Castro-Fornieles
Josefina Castro-Fornieles University of Barcelona
Manuel J. Cuesta
Manuel J. Cuesta Hospital Universitario de Navarra
Joaquim Soler
Joaquim Soler Autonomous University of Barcelona
Eva Penelo
Eva Penelo Autonomous University of Barcelona
James A. Serpell
James A. Serpell University of Pennsylvania

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