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Miquel A. Fullana

Miquel A. Fullana

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Psychology

D-Index
41
Citations
5925
World Ranking
7983
National Ranking
95

Overview

Miquel A. Fullana is affiliated with Clínic Barcelona in Spain. Their research spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and clinical psychology. The scientist has also contributed to social psychology and behavioral neuroscience.

Their main research topics include:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Miquel A. Fullana has published extensively in prominent venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Spanish Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health

Some of the recent research papers authored or co-authored by Fullana include:

  • "Coping behaviors associated with decreased anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown" (2020), Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Does the human ventromedial prefrontal cortex support fear learning, fear extinction or both? A commentary on subregional contributions" (2021), Molecular Psychiatry
  • "The neurobiology of human fear generalization: meta-analysis and working neural model" (2021), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "The nature and neurobiology of fear and anxiety: State of the science and opportunities for accelerating discovery" (2023), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Neural predictors of cognitive-behavior therapy outcome in anxiety-related disorders: a meta-analysis of task-based fMRI studies" (2022), Psychological Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their research include Joaquim Raduà, Carles Soriano-Mas, Eduard Vieta, Lydia Fortea, and Ignacio Martínez-Zalacaín. These collaborations have contributed to a body of work emphasizing various aspects of anxiety, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and neurobiological mechanisms.

Best Publications

  • Neural signatures of human fear conditioning: an updated and extended meta-analysis of fMRI studies.

    M. A Fullana;B. J Harrison;C Soriano-Mas;C Soriano-Mas;Bram Vervliet

  • Coping behaviors associated with decreased anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown.

    Miquel A. Fullana;Diego Hidalgo-Mazzei;Eduard Vieta;Joaquim Radua;Joaquim Radua;Joaquim Radua

  • Fear extinction in the human brain: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies in healthy participants.

    Miquel A. Fullana;Anton Albajes-Eizagirre;Carles Soriano-Mas;Bram Vervliet

  • Risk factors for posttraumatic stress disorder: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

    Miquel Tortella-Feliu;Miquel A. Fullana;Ana Pérez-Vigil;Xavier Torres

  • Risk factors prospectively associated with adult obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    J. R. Grisham;M. A. Fullana;D. Mataix-Cols;T. E. Moffitt

  • Does the human ventromedial prefrontal cortex support fear learning, fear extinction or both? A commentary on subregional contributions

    Simone Battaglia;Ben J Harrison;Miquel A Fullana

  • Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory - revised in a non-clinical sample

    Miquel A. Fullana;Miquel Tortella-Feliu;Xavier Caseras;Óscar Andión

  • A multivariate twin study of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions.

    Alessandra C. Iervolino;Fruhling V. Rijsdijk;Lynn Cherkas;Miquel A. Fullana

  • 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

  • No effect of trait anxiety on differential fear conditioning or fear generalization.

    David Torrents-Rodas;Miquel A. Fullana;Miquel A. Fullana;Albert Bonillo;Xavier Caseras

  • Treatment adequacy of anxiety and depressive disorders: Primary versus specialised care in Spain

    Anna Fernández;Josep Maria Haro;Miquel Codony;Gemma Vilagut

  • The neurobiology of human fear generalization: meta-analysis and working neural model

    Ryan D Webler;Hannah E Berg;Kimberly Fhong;Lauri Tuominen

  • High sensitivity to punishment and low impulsivity in obsessive-compulsive patients with hoarding symptoms

    Miquel Angel Fullana;David Mataix-Cols;Xavier Caseras;Pino Alonso

  • Personality characteristics in obsessive‐compulsive disorder and individuals with subclinical obsessive‐compulsive problems

    Miquel Àngel Fullana;David Mataix-Cols;José Luis Trujillo;Xavier Caseras

  • Neural signatures of conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction recall in posttraumatic stress disorder: a meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies.

    Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez;Anton Albajes-Eizagirre;Amit Lazarov;Amit Lazarov;Amit Lazarov;Xi Zhu;Xi Zhu

  • Meta-analysis of Voxel-Based Neuroimaging Studies using Seed-based d Mapping with Permutation of Subject Images (SDM-PSI).

    Anton Albajes-Eizagirre;Aleix Solanes;Miquel Angel Fullana;John P. A. Ioannidis

  • Common and distinct neural correlates of fear extinction and cognitive reappraisal: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies.

    M. Picó-Pérez;M. Alemany-Navarro;Joseph Dunsmoor;J. Radua

  • Predicting response to cognitive behavioral therapy in contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder from functional magnetic resonance imaging

    BO Olatunji;R Ferreira-Garcia;X Caseras;MA Fullana

  • Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the positive affective processing of safety signals.

    Ben J. Harrison;Miquel Angel Fullana;Esther Via;Carles Soriano-Mas

  • Fear Extinction Retention: Is It What We Think It Is?

    Tina B. Lonsdorf;Christian J. Merz;Miquel A. Fullana

  • Convergent and discriminant validity of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale Symptom Checklist.

    David Mataix-Cols;Miquel Ángel Fullana;Pino Alonso;Josep Manuel Menchón

Frequent Co-Authors

Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
Narcís Cardoner
Narcís Cardoner Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ben J. Harrison
Ben J. Harrison University of Melbourne
Xavier Caseras
Xavier Caseras Cardiff University
David Mataix-Cols
David Mataix-Cols Karolinska Institute
Rafael Torrubia
Rafael Torrubia Autonomous University of Barcelona
Eva Real
Eva Real Bellvitge University Hospital
María del Pino Alonso Ortega
María del Pino Alonso Ortega Bellvitge University Hospital
Cinto Segalàs
Cinto Segalàs Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Bram Vervliet
Bram Vervliet KU Leuven

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