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Lourdes Fañanás

Lourdes Fañanás

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Overview

Lourdes Fañanás is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with specific emphasis on Clinical Psychology, Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics in their work include:

  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment

Recent notable publications by Lourdes Fañanás include:

  • Mapping Genomic Loci Implicates Genes and Synaptic Biology in Schizophrenia, 2022, Nature
  • Schizophrenia Risk Conferred by Rare Protein-Truncating Variants Is Conserved Across Diverse Human Populations, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Childhood Maltreatment Disrupts HPA-Axis Activity Under Basal and Stress Conditions in a Dose-Response Relationship in Children and Adolescents, 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • Long-Term Outcomes of First-Admission Psychosis: A Naturalistic 21-Year Follow-Up Study of Symptomatic, Functional and Personal Recovery and Their Baseline Predictors, 2021, Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Polygenic Contribution to the Relationship of Loneliness and Social Isolation with Schizophrenia, 2022, Nature Communications

Lourdes Fañanás collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Sergi Papiol
  • Benedicto Crespo-Facorro
  • Mar Fatjó-Vilas
  • Julio Bobes
  • Javier Costas

Their research has been published in various academic journals, most notably:

  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • European Psychiatry
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin

Best Publications

  • An Experimental Study of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Val158Met Moderation of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol-induced Effects on Psychosis and Cognition

    Cecile Henquet;Araceli Rosa;Lydia Krabbendam;Sergi Papiol

  • Glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) methylation processes as mediators of early adversity in stress-related disorders causality: A critical review

    Helena Palma-Gudiel;Aldo Córdova-Palomera;Juan Carlos Leza;Lourdes Fañanás

  • Early adversity and 5-HTT/BDNF genes: new evidence of gene-environment interactions on depressive symptoms in a general population.

    M. Aguilera;B. Arias;Marieke Wichers;N. Barrantes-Vidal

  • Maternal psychosocial stress during pregnancy alters the epigenetic signature of the glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter in their offspring: a meta-analysis.

    H Palma-Gudiel;A Córdova-Palomera;E Eixarch;M Deuschle

  • 5-HTTLPR polymorphism of the serotonin transporter gene predicts non-remission in major depression patients treated with citalopram in a 12-weeks follow up study.

    Bárbara Arias;Rosa Catalán;Cristóbal Gastó;Blanca Gutiérrez

  • New evidence of association between COMT gene and prefrontal neurocognitive function in healthy individuals from sibling pairs discordant for psychosis.

    Araceli Rosa;Víctor Peralta;Manuel J. Cuesta;Amalia Zarzuela

  • Genetic variability at HPA axis in major depression and clinical response to antidepressant treatment

    Sergi Papiol;Bárbara Arias;Cristóbal Gastó;Blanca Gutiérrez

  • The 5‐HT2A receptor gene 102T/C polymorphism is associated with suicidal behavior in depressed patients

    Bárbara Arias;Cristobal Gastó;Rosa Catalán;Blanca Gutiérrez

  • Childhood abuse, the BDNF-Val66Met polymorphism and adult psychotic-like experiences

    Silvia Alemany;Bárbara Arias;Mari Aguilera;Helena Villa

  • COMT Val158Met moderation of cannabis-induced psychosis: a momentary assessment study of ‘switching on’ hallucinations in the flow of daily life

    C. Henquet;A. Rosa;Philippe A. E. G. Delespaul;S. Papiol

  • Relapse of major depression after complete and partial remission during a 2-year follow-up

    Luis Pintor;Cristobal Gastó;Victor Navarro;Xavier Torres

  • Evidence That the COMTVal158Met Polymorphism Moderates Sensitivity to Stress in Psychosis : An Experience-Sampling Study

    Ruud Van Winkel;Cécile Henquet;Araceli Rosa;Araceli Rosa;Sergi Papiol

  • Variability in the serotonin transporter gene and increased risk for major depression with melancholia

    Blanca Gutiérrez;Luis Pintor;Cristóbal Gastó;Araceli Rosa

  • Analysis of COMT gene (Val 158 Met polymorphism) in the clinical response to SSRIs in depressive patients of European origin.

    Bárbara Arias;Alessandro Serretti;Cristina Lorenzi;Cristóbal Gastó

  • Neurocognitive, behavioural and neurodevelopmental correlates of schizotypy clusters in adolescents from the general population

    Neus Barrantes-Vidal;Lourdes Fañanás;Araceli Rosa;Beatriu Caparrós

  • The Val66Met polymorphism of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene is associated with risk for psychosis: Evidence from a family-based association study

    Araceli Rosa;Manuel J. Cuesta;Mar Fatjó-Vilas;Víctor Peralta

  • Increased morbid risk for schizophrenia in families of in-patients with bipolar illness.

    V Vallès;J Van Os;R Guillamat;B Gutiérrez

  • Evidence for a combined genetic effect of the 5-HT1A receptor and serotonin transporter genes in the clinical outcome of major depressive patients treated with citalopram

    Bárbara Arias;Rosa Catalán;Cristóbal Gastó;Blanca Gutiérrez

  • Cannabis use and age at onset of psychosis: further evidence of interaction with COMT Val158Met polymorphism.

    G. Estrada;M. Fatjó-Vilas;M. J. Muñoz;G. Pulido

  • Stressful life events during adolescence and risk for externalizing and internalizing psychopathology: a meta-analysis

    Jaume March-Llanes;Laia Marqués-Feixa;Laura Mezquita;Lourdes Fañanás

  • Directional and fluctuating asymmetry in finger and a-b ridge counts in psychosis: a case-control study.

    Sukanta Saha;Danuta Loesch;David Chant;Joy Welham

  • Erratum : Reciprocal causation models of cognitive vs volumetric cerebral intermediate phenotypes for schizophrenia in a pan-European twin cohort (Molecular Psychiatry (2015) 20, 1386-1396; DOI:10.1038/mp.2014.152)

    T. Toulopoulou;N. Van Haren;X. Zhang;P. C. Sham

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Peralta
Victor Peralta Royal College of Psychiatrists
Manuel J. Cuesta
Manuel J. Cuesta Hospital Universitario de Navarra
Neus Barrantes-Vidal
Neus Barrantes-Vidal Autonomous University of Barcelona
Luisa Lázaro
Luisa Lázaro University of Barcelona
Adriane R. Rosa
Adriane R. Rosa Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Ana González-Pinto
Ana González-Pinto University of the Basque Country
Jaume Bertranpetit
Jaume Bertranpetit Pompeu Fabra University
Celso Arango
Celso Arango Complutense University of Madrid
Marie-Odile Krebs
Marie-Odile Krebs Université Paris Cité
María P. Martín
María P. Martín Spanish National Research Council

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