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Miguel Pérez-García

Miguel Pérez-García

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Psychology

D-Index
45
Citations
9297
World Ranking
6642
National Ranking
76

Overview

Miguel Pérez-García is affiliated with the University of Granada in Spain, focusing on research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Clinical Psychology, Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's research covers several main topics reflecting an interdisciplinary approach. These include:

  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing

Some of their recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their studies:

  • Structural Brain Alterations in Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, 2020, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Infant Formula Supplemented With Milk Fat Globule Membrane, Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, and Synbiotics Is Associated With Neurocognitive Function and Brain Structure of Healthy Children Aged 6 Years: The COGNIS Study, 2022, Frontiers in Nutrition
  • The Effects of an Infant Formula Enriched with Milk Fat Globule Membrane, Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Synbiotics on Child Behavior up to 2.5 Years Old: The COGNIS Study, 2020, Nutrients
  • Cultural Bias in Intelligence Assessment Using a Culture-Free Test in Moroccan Children, 2021, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
  • Unemployment and general cognitive ability: A review and meta-analysis, 2021, Journal of Economic Psychology

Miguel Pérez-García has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Natalia Hidalgo-Ruzzante
  • Juan Verdejo-Román
  • Agar Marín-Morales
  • Julia C. Daugherty
  • Natalia Bueso-Izquierdo

The researcher's work has been published regularly in certain academic venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Neuroscience Applied
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Nutrients
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology

Best Publications

  • What are the specific vs. generalized effects of drugs of abuse on neuropsychological performance

    Maria Jose Fernandez-Serrano;Miguel Perez-Garcia;Antonio Javier Verdejo-Garcia

  • Executive dysfunction in substance dependent individuals during drug use and abstinence: an examination of the behavioral, cognitive and emotional correlates of addiction.

    Antonio Verdejo-García;Antoine Bechara;Emily C. Recknor;Miguel Pérez-García

  • Negative emotion-driven impulsivity predicts substance dependence problems.

    Antonio Verdejo-García;Antoine Bechara;Antoine Bechara;Emily C. Recknor;Miguel Pérez-García

  • Profile of executive deficits in cocaine and heroin polysubstance users: common and differential effects on separate executive components.

    Antonio Verdejo-García;Miguel Pérez-García

  • Cognitive impulsivity in cocaine and heroin polysubstance abusers.

    Antonio J. Verdejo-García;José C. Perales;Miguel Pérez-García

  • Neuropsychological consequences of alcohol and drug abuse on different components of executive functions

    María José Fernández-Serrano;Miguel Pérez-García;Jacqueline Schmidt Río-Valle;Antonio Verdejo-García

  • Differential effects of MDMA, cocaine, and cannabis use severity on distinctive components of the executive functions in polysubstance users: A multiple regression analysis

    Antonio J. Verdejo-Garcı́a;Francisca López-Torrecillas;Francisco Aguilar de Arcos;Miguel Pérez-Garcı́a

  • Clinical Implications and Methodological Challenges in the Study of the Neuropsychological Correlates of Cannabis, Stimulant, and Opioid Abuse

    Antonio Verdejo-García;Francisca López-Torrecillas;Carmen Orozco Giménez;Miguel Pérez-García

  • Selective alterations within executive functions in adolescents with excess weight.

    Antonio Verdejo-García;Manuel Pérez-Expósito;Jacqueline Schmidt-Río-Valle;Maria J. Fernández-Serrano

  • Neuropsychological functioning in methadone maintenance patients versus abstinent heroin abusers.

    Antonio Verdejo;Inmaculada Toribio;Carmen Orozco;Krista Lee Puente

  • Psychometric Properties of a Spanish Version of the UPPS–P Impulsive Behavior Scale: Reliability, Validity and Association With Trait and Cognitive Impulsivity

    Antonio Verdejo-García;Oscar Lozano;Maribel Moya;Miguel Angel Alcázar

  • Trait impulsivity and prefrontal gray matter reductions in cocaine dependent individuals

    Laura Moreno-Lopez;Andres Catena;Maria Jose Fernandez-Serrano;Elena Delgado-Rico

  • Disadvantageous decision-making as a predictor of drop-out among cocaine-dependent individuals in long-term residential treatment

    Laura Stevens;Patricia Betanzos-Espinosa;Cleo L. Crunelle;Esperanza Vergara-Moragues;Esperanza Vergara-Moragues

  • Emotion, Decision-Making and Substance Dependence: A Somatic-Marker Model of Addiction

    A. Verdejo-García;M. Pérez-García;A. Bechara

  • Nutrition and neurodevelopment in children: focus on NUTRIMENTHE project

    Tania Anjos;Signe Altmäe;Pauline Emmett;Henning Tiemeier

  • Neuropsychological profiling of impulsivity and compulsivity in cocaine dependent individuals

    María José Fernández-Serrano;José César Perales;Laura Moreno-López;Miguel Pérez-García

  • Experience of emotions in substance abusers exposed to images containing neutral, positive, and negative affective stimuli.

    Francisco Aguilar de Arcos;Antonio Verdejo-García;María Isabel Peralta-Ramírez;María Sánchez-Barrera

  • Strategic self-regulation, decision-making and emotion processing in poly-substance abusers in their first year of abstinence.

    Antonio Verdejo-García;Cristina Rivas-Pérez;Raquel Vilar-López;Miguel Pérez-García

  • The effects of daily stress and stressful life events on the clinical symptomatology of patients with lupus erythematosus.

    Maria I Peralta-Ramírez;Juan Jiménez-Alonso;Juan F Godoy-García;Miguel Pérez-García

  • Prenatal DHA Status and Neurological Outcome in Children at Age 5.5 Years Are Positively Associated

    M. Victoria Escolano-Margarit;Rosa Ramos;Jeannette Beyer;Gyoergyi Csabi

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Verdejo-García
Antonio Verdejo-García Monash University
Andrés Catena
Andrés Catena University of Granada
José C. Perales
José C. Perales University of Granada
Antoine Bechara
Antoine Bechara University of Southern California
Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso
Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso University of Jaén
Liane Young
Liane Young Boston College
Stephen D. Hart
Stephen D. Hart Simon Fraser University
Jordi Julvez
Jordi Julvez HTC (Taiwan)
Reinout W. Wiers
Reinout W. Wiers University of Amsterdam
Elkhonon Goldberg
Elkhonon Goldberg New York University

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