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Overview

Rafael Torrubia is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their research focuses primarily on clinical psychology, psychiatry, social psychology, and subfields related to mental health and neurological influences on behavior.

Their main research topics include:

  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Child Abuse and Trauma

Recent publications by Torrubia highlight a variety of interests in neurobehavioral and psychological assessments. Selected papers include:

  • Sex differences in neural projections of fear memory processing in mice and humans, 2024, Science Advances
  • Contribution of the Roman rat lines/strains to personality neuroscience: neurobehavioral modeling of internalizing/externalizing psychopathologies, 2023, Personality Neuroscience
  • Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version, 2022, Current Psychology
  • Neurobehavioral and neurodevelopmental profiles of a heuristic genetic model of differential schizophrenia- and addiction-relevant features: The RHA vs. RLA rats, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Metacognition of daily self-regulation processes and personality traits in borderline personality disorder, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders

Frequent publication venues for Torrubia include:

  • Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Science Advances
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Current Psychology

Throughout their career, Torrubia has collaborated with various researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Beatriz Molinuevo
  • Anastasiya Ivanova-Serokhvostova
  • Albert Bonillo
  • Alberto Fernández-Teruel
  • Ignasi Oliveras

The scope of Torrubia's work reflects a multidisciplinary approach involving clinical assessments and neurobehavioral modeling to explore personality traits, psychiatric disorders, and neurobiological underpinnings of behavior.

Best Publications

  • The Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire (SPSRQ) as a measure of Gray's anxiety and impulsivity dimensions.

    Rafael Torrubia;César Ávila;Javier Moltó;Xavier Caseras

  • The measurement of individual differences in Behavioural Inhibition and Behavioural Activation systems: a comparison of personality scales

    Xavier Caseras;C. Àvila;R. Torrubia

  • Behavioral Inhibition System activity is associated with increased amygdala and hippocampal gray matter volume: A voxel-based morphometry study

    Alfonso Barrós-Loscertales;Vanessa Meseguer;Ana Sanjuán;Vicente Belloch

  • The development of a Spanish questionnaire for assessing pain: Preliminary data concerning reliability and validity.

    Carlos Lázaro;Fèlix Bosch;Rafael Torrubia;Josep-Eladi Baños

  • Behavioural Inhibition and Behavioural Activation Systems in current and recovered major depression participants

    Alejandra Pinto-Meza;Xavier Caseras;Joaquim Soler;Dolors Puigdemont

  • A scale for the assessment of ‘susceptibility to punishment’ as a measure of anxiety: preliminary results

    R. Torrubia;A. Tobeña

  • Standardization of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in a Spanish prison sample.

    Javier Moltó;Rosario Poy;Rafael Torrubia

  • 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

  • Fiabilidad y validez de la versión española de la Escala de Búsqueda de Sensaciones (Forma V)

    Jorge Pérez;Rafael Torrubia

  • Comorbid Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Borderline Patients Defines an Impulsive Subtype of Borderline Personality Disorder

    Marc Ferrer;Óscar Andión;Josep Matalí;Sergi Valero

  • Tipología de agresores contra la pareja en prisión

    Ismael Loinaz;Enrique Echeburúa;Rafael Torrubia

  • Personality dimensions, schizotypal and borderline personality traits and psychosis proneness

    Carles Muntaner;Lluis Garcia-Sevilla;Alberto Fernandez;Rafael Torrubia

  • 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

  • Alcohol use as a behavioural sign of disinhibition: evidence from J.A. Gray's model of personality.

    Yolanda Pardo;Raúl Aguilar;Beatriz Molinuevo;Rafael Torrubia

  • Psychometric properties of a Spanish version of the McGill Pain Questionnaire in several Spanish-speaking countries.

    Carlos Lázaro;Xavier Caseras;Victor M. Whizar-Lugo;Roberto Wenk

  • Striatum gray matter reduction in males with an overactive behavioral activation system.

    A. Barrós-Loscertales;V. Meseguer;A. Sanjuán;V. Belloch

  • Hostility-Aggressiveness, Sensation Seeking, and Sex Hormones in Men: Re-Exploring Their Relationship

    Anton Aluja;Rafael Torrubia

  • 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

  • The functioning of the Behavioral Activation and Inhibition Systems in bipolar I euthymic patients and its influence in subsequent episodes over an eighteen-month period

    José Salavert;José Salavert;Xavier Caseras;Rafael Torrubia;Sandra Furest

Frequent Co-Authors

Xavier Caseras
Xavier Caseras Cardiff University
Miquel A. Fullana
Miquel A. Fullana Clínic Barcelona
César Ávila
César Ávila Jaume I University
David Mataix-Cols
David Mataix-Cols Karolinska Institute
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Alberto Fernández-Teruel
Alberto Fernández-Teruel Autonomous University of Barcelona
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
Rosa M. Escorihuela
Rosa M. Escorihuela Autonomous University of Barcelona
Sergi Valero
Sergi Valero Fundació ACE
Joaquim Soler
Joaquim Soler Autonomous University of Barcelona

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