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Maria J. Portella is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Neurology.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to brain function and mental health. These main topics include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Mental Health Research Topics, Treatment of Major Depression, Tryptophan and Brain Disorders, Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Stress Responses and Cortisol, and Suicide and Self-Harm Studies.

Recent notable publications by Maria J. Portella include:

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group (2020), Molecular Psychiatry
  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing (2020), Translational Psychiatry
  • Deep brain stimulation in treatment resistant schizophrenia: A pilot randomized cross-over clinical trial (2020), EBioMedicine
  • Neuropsychiatric profiles and conversion to dementia in mild cognitive impairment, a latent class analysis (2021), Scientific Reports
  • Brain structural correlates of insomnia severity in 1053 individuals with major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA MDD Working Group (2020), Translational Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors with whom Maria J. Portella collaborates include:

  • Muriel Vicent-Gil
  • Narcís Cardoner
  • Jair C. Soares
  • Dolors Puigdemont
  • Ian H. Gotlib

The primary publication venues for their research are:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Best Publications

  • White matter disturbances in major depressive disorder: a coordinated analysis across 20 international cohorts in the ENIGMA MDD working group

    Laura S. van Velzen;Sinead Kelly;Sinead Kelly;Dmitry Isaev;Andre Aleman

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years

    Sophia Frangou;Amirhossein Modabbernia;Steven C. R. Williams;Efstathios Papachristou

  • Deep brain stimulation of the subcallosal cingulate gyrus: further evidence in treatment-resistant major depression.

    Dolors Puigdemont;Rosario Pérez-Egea;Maria J. Portella;Joan Molet

  • Persistent neuropsychological deficit in euthymic bipolar patients: executive function as a core deficit.

    Maria Mur;Maria J. Portella;Anabel Martínez-Arán;Josep Pifarré

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • Enhanced early morning salivary cortisol in neuroticism.

    Maria J. Portella;Catherine J. Harmer;Jonathan Flint;Philip Cowen

  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing

    Lianne Schmaal;Elena Pozzi;Tiffany C Ho;Tiffany C Ho;Laura S van Velzen

  • Physiological Responses Induced by Emotion-Eliciting Films

    Cristina Fernández;Juan C. Pascual;Joaquim Soler;Matilde Elices

  • Long-term stability of cognitive impairment in bipolar disorder: a 2-year follow-up study of lithium-treated euthymic bipolar patients.

    Maria Mur;Maria J Portella;Anabel Martínez-Arán;Josep Pifarré

  • Persistence of cognitive impairment and its negative impact on psychosocial functioning in lithium-treated, euthymic bipolar patients: a 6-year follow-up study.

    E. Mora;M. J. Portella;I. Forcada;E. Vieta

  • Microstructural white-matter abnormalities associated with treatment resistance, severity and duration of illness in major depression

    J. de Diego-Adeliño;P. Pires;B. Gómez-Ansón;M. Serra-Blasco

  • Effects of the dialectical behavioral therapy-mindfulness module on attention in patients with borderline personality disorder.

    Joaquim Soler;Ana Valdepérez;Albert Feliu-Soler;Juan C. Pascual

  • Verbal and Visual Memory Performance and Hippocampal Volumes, Measured by 3-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging, in Patients with Cushing's Syndrome

    Eugenia Resmini;Alicia Santos;Beatriz Gómez-Anson;Yolanda Vives

  • Resting-state functional connectivity alterations in the default network of schizophrenia patients with persistent auditory verbal hallucinations

    Anna Alonso-Solís;Yolanda Vives-Gilabert;Eva Grasa;Maria J. Portella

  • Patient-reported outcome measures: Are they patient-generated, patient-centred or patient-valued?

    Joan Trujols;Maria J. Portella;Ioseba Iraurgi;M. Josefa Campins

  • Health‐related quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease patients: The role of psychopathology and personality

    Angela Vidal;Esther Gómez-Gil;Miquel Sans;Maria J Portella

  • The influence of cognitive reserve on psychosocial and neuropsychological functioning in bipolar disorder

    Irene Forcada;Maria Mur;Ester Mora;Eduard Vieta

  • Greater male than female variability in regional brain structure across the lifespan

    Lara M Wierenga;Gaelle E Doucet;Gaelle E Doucet;Danai Dima;Danai Dima;Ingrid Agartz;Ingrid Agartz

  • Influence of clinical and neuropsychological variables on the psychosocial and occupational outcome of remitted bipolar patients.

    Maria Mur;Maria J. Portella;Anabel Martinez-Aran;Josep Pifarre

  • Ventromedial prefrontal spectroscopic abnormalities over the course of depression: a comparison among first episode, remitted recurrent and chronic patients.

    Maria J. Portella;Javier de Diego-Adeliño;Beatriz Gómez-Ansón;René Morgan-Ferrando

Frequent Co-Authors

Joaquim Soler
Joaquim Soler Autonomous University of Barcelona
Juan C. Pascual
Juan C. Pascual King's College London
Albert Feliu-Soler
Albert Feliu-Soler Autonomous University of Barcelona
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Narcís Cardoner
Narcís Cardoner Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ian B. Hickie
Ian B. Hickie University of Sydney
Ian H. Gotlib
Ian H. Gotlib Stanford University
Matthew D. Sacchet
Matthew D. Sacchet Harvard University
Margaret J. Wright
Margaret J. Wright University of Queensland
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

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