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Eva Real is affiliated with Bellvitge University Hospital in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on the study of obsessive-compulsive disorders and related psychological and neurological areas. The scope of their work spans psychology, neuroscience, and medicine with significant contributions to subfields such as clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main research topics that Eva Real has addressed include:

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies

Eva Real has a number of recent publications. Selected papers include:

  • "Deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review of worldwide experience after 20 years" (2021, World Journal of Psychiatry)
  • "How is COVID-19 affecting patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder? A longitudinal study on the initial phase of the pandemic in a Spanish cohort" (2021, European Psychiatry)
  • "Changes in the stool and oropharyngeal microbiome in obsessive-compulsive disorder" (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • "Sleep disturbances in obsessive-compulsive disorder: influence of depression symptoms and trait anxiety" (2021, BMC Psychiatry)
  • "Looking into the genetic bases of OCD dimensions: a pilot genome-wide association study" (2020, Translational Psychiatry)

The frequent coauthors with whom Eva Real has collaborated extensively include:

  • José M. Menchón (31 collaborations)
  • Cinto Segalàs (30 collaborations)
  • Sara Bertolín (27 collaborations)
  • Pino Alonso (19 collaborations)
  • Carles Soriano-Mas (11 collaborations)

Eva Real's research has been published frequently in several venues, among which the most common are:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders (6 publications)
  • Neuroscience Applied (4 publications)
  • European Psychiatry (3 publications)
  • Molecular Psychiatry (2 publications)
  • Spanish Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Treatment Outcome and Predictors of Response

    Pino Alonso;Daniel Cuadras;Loes Gabriëls;Damiaan Denys

  • Brain Corticostriatal Systems and the Major Clinical Symptom Dimensions of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Ben J. Harrison;Jesus Pujol;Narcis Cardoner;Joan Deus

  • Breakdown in the brain network subserving moral judgment in criminal psychopathy

    Jesus Pujol;Iolanda Batalla;Oren Contreras-Rodríguez;Ben J. Harrison

  • Suicide in patients treated for obsessive–compulsive disorder: A prospective follow-up study.

    P. Alonso;P. Alonso;P. Alonso;C. Segalàs;E. Real;A. Pertusa

  • Clinical implications of insight assessment in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Pino Alonso;José M. Menchón;Cinto Segalàs;Nuria Jaurrieta

  • Amygdala activation and symptom dimensions in obsessive compulsive disorder

    Esther Via;Narcís Cardoner;Jesús Pujol;Pino Alonso

  • Animal models of obsessive-compulsive disorder: utility and limitations.

    Pino Alonso;Clara López-Solà;Eva Real;Cinto Segalàs

  • Extensive genotyping of the BDNF and NTRK2 genes define protective haplotypes against obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Pino Alonso;Mónica Gratacòs;José M. Menchón;Jerónimo Saiz-Ruiz

  • Neural correlates of moral sensitivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Ben J. Harrison;Jesus Pujol;Carles Soriano-Mas;Rosa Hernández-Ribas

  • Stressful life events at onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder are associated with a distinct clinical pattern.

    Eva Real;Javier Labad;Pino Alonso;Pino Alonso;Cinto Segalàs

  • A prospective international multi-center study on safety and efficacy of deep brain stimulation for resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    José M. Menchón;Eva Real;Pino Alonso;Marco Alberto Aparicio

  • Verbal and Nonverbal Memory Processing in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder : Its Relationship to Clinical Variables

    Cinto Segalàs;Pino Alonso;Javier Labad;Nuria Jaurrieta

  • Brain structural correlates of sensory phenomena in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Marta Subirà;João R. Sato;Pino Alonso;Maria C. do Rosário

  • Enhanced brain responsiveness during active emotional face processing in obsessive compulsive disorder.

    Narcís Cardoner;Ben J. Harrison;Jesús Pujol;Carles Soriano-Mas

  • Deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review of worldwide experience after 20 years.

    Lorea Mar-Barrutia;Eva Real;Cinto Segalás;Sara Bertolín

  • Association between the NMDA glutamate receptor GRIN2B gene and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Pino Alonso;Mónica Gratacós;Cinto Segalàs;Georgia Escaramís

  • Genetic susceptibility to obsessive-compulsive hoarding: the contribution of neurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor type 3 gene.

    P. Alonso;M. Gratacòs;J. M. Menchón;C. Segalàs

  • Basolateral amygdala–ventromedial prefrontal cortex connectivity predicts cognitive behavioural therapy outcome in adults with obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Miquel A Fullana;Xi Zhu;Pino Alonso;Narcís Cardoner

  • Variants in estrogen receptor alpha gene are associated with phenotypical expression of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    P. Alonso;P. Alonso;M. Gratacòs;M. Gratacòs;C. Segalàs;G. Escaramís;G. Escaramís

  • Exon-focused genome-wide association study of obsessive-compulsive disorder and shared polygenic risk with schizophrenia

    J. Costas;Noa Carrera;P. Alonso;X. Gurriarán

  • Brain regions related to fear extinction in obsessive-compulsive disorder and its relation to exposure therapy outcome: a morphometric study

    M. A. Fullana;N. Cardoner;P. Alonso;M. Subirà

Frequent Co-Authors

Cinto Segalàs
Cinto Segalàs Instituto de Salud Carlos III
María del Pino Alonso Ortega
María del Pino Alonso Ortega Bellvitge University Hospital
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
Narcís Cardoner
Narcís Cardoner Autonomous University of Barcelona
Susana Jiménez-Murcia
Susana Jiménez-Murcia University of Barcelona
Miquel A. Fullana
Miquel A. Fullana Clínic Barcelona
Ben J. Harrison
Ben J. Harrison University of Melbourne
Angel Carracedo
Angel Carracedo University of Santiago de Compostela
Damiaan Denys
Damiaan Denys University of Amsterdam

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