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2026

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  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Argentina Leader Award

Overview

Teresa Torralva is affiliated with the Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva in Argentina. Their research work spans multiple aspects of neuroscience and medicine, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and neurology. The subfields of study that Torralva engages with include cognitive neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The research topics covered by Torralva include:

  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Cognitive functions and memory
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research
  • Dementia and cognitive impairment research
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Cognitive abilities and testing

Some recent papers contributed to by Teresa Torralva are:

  • The relationship between executive functions and fluid intelligence in multiple sclerosis, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • The limitations and challenges in the assessment of executive dysfunction associated with real-world functioning: The opportunity of serious games, 2023, Applied Neuropsychology Adult
  • Multidimensional Clinical Assessment in Frontotemporal Dementia and Its Spectrum in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Narrative Review and a Glance at Future Challenges, 2022, Frontiers in Neurology
  • Frontotemporal Dementias in Latin America: History, Epidemiology, Genetics, and Clinical Research, 2021, Frontiers in Neurology
  • Sensitivity and specificity of the INECO frontal screening (IFS) in the detection of patients with traumatic brain injury presenting executive deficits, 2021, Applied Neuropsychology Adult

Teresa Torralva has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Applied Neuropsychology Adult (3 publications)
  • Vertex Revista Argentina de Psiquiatría (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Neurology (2 publications)
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence (2 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2 publications)

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Marcelo Cetkovich (8 joint publications)
  • Facundo Manes (7 joint publications)
  • Laura Alethia de la Fuente (5 joint publications)
  • Sofía Schurmann Vignaga (5 joint publications)
  • Agustín Ibáñez (4 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Executive function and fluid intelligence after frontal lobe lesions.

    María Roca;Alice Parr;Russell Thompson;Alexandra Woolgar

  • A neuropsychological battery to detect specific executive and social cognitive impairments in early frontotemporal dementia

    Teresa Torralva;María Roca;Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht;Tristán Bekinschtein

  • INECO Frontal Screening (IFS): a brief, sensitive, and specific tool to assess executive functions in dementia

    Teresa Torralva;Mariáa Roca;Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht;Pablo López

  • Decision-making cognition in neurodegenerative diseases

    Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht;Agustín Ibáñez;María Roca;Teresa Torralva

  • The relationship between affective decision-making and theory of mind in the frontal variant of fronto-temporal dementia

    Teresa Torralva;Christopher M. Kipps;John R. Hodges;John R. Hodges;Luke Clark

  • Fluid intelligence loss linked to restricted regions of damage within frontal and parietal cortex

    Alexandra Woolgar;Alice Parr;Rhodri Cusack;Russell Thompson

  • Primary empathy deficits in frontotemporal dementia

    Sandra Baez;Facundo Manes;David Huepe;Teresa Torralva

  • Feeling, learning from and being aware of inner states: interoceptive dimensions in neurodegeneration and stroke

    Indira García-Cordero;Lucas Sedeño;Lucas Sedeño;Laura de la Fuente;Laura de la Fuente;Andrea Slachevsky

  • The role of Area 10 (BA10) in human multitasking and in social cognition: A lesion study

    María Roca;Teresa Torralva;Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht;Alexandra Woolgar

  • Cortical deficits of emotional face processing in adults with ADHD: Its relation to social cognition and executive function

    Agustin Ibáñez;Agustin Petroni;Hugo Urquina;Fernando Torrente

  • Integrating intention and context: assessing social cognition in adults with Asperger syndrome

    Sandra Baez;Sandra Baez;Alexia Rattazzi;María Luz Gonzalez-Gadea;Teresa Torralva

  • Impairments in social cognition in early medicated and unmedicated Parkinson disease.

    María Roca;Teresa Torralva;Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht;Anabel Chade

  • Selective impairment of cognitive empathy for moral judgment in adults with high functioning autism

    Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht;Teresa Torralva;Alexia Rattazzi;Victoria Marenco

  • Cognitive deficits in multiple sclerosis correlate with changes in fronto-subcortical tracts.

    M. Roca;T. Torralva;F. Meli;M. Fiol

  • Comparing Moral Judgments of Patients With Frontotemporal Dementia and Frontal Stroke

    Sandra Baez;Blas Couto;Blas Couto;Blas Couto;Teresa Torralva;Teresa Torralva;Luciano A. Sposato;Luciano A. Sposato

  • Executive functions in pathologic gamblers selected in an ecologic setting.

    María Roca;Teresa Torralva;Pablo López;Marcelo Cetkovich

  • Cognitive variability in adults with ADHD and AS: disentangling the roles of executive functions and social cognition.

    Maria Luz Gonzalez-Gadea;Sandra Baez;Teresa Torralva;Francisco Xavier Castellanos;Francisco Xavier Castellanos

  • The role of social cognition in moral judgment in frontotemporal dementia

    Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht;Teresa Torralva;María Roca;Mariángeles Pose

  • The neural basis of decision-making and reward processing in adults with euthymic bipolar disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

    Agustin Ibanez;Agustin Ibanez;Agustin Ibanez;Marcelo Cetkovich;Agustin Petroni;Agustin Petroni;Hugo Urquina;Hugo Urquina

  • From neural signatures of emotional modulation to social cognition: individual differences in healthy volunteers and psychiatric participants

    Agustin Ibanez;Agustin Ibanez;Agustin Ibanez;Jaume Aguado;Sandra Baez;David Huepe

Frequent Co-Authors

Facundo Manes
Facundo Manes Favaloro University
Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht
Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht Medical University of South Carolina
Agustín Ibáñez
Agustín Ibáñez Adolfo Ibáñez University
Sandra Baez
Sandra Baez Universidad de Los Andes
Adolfo M. García
Adolfo M. García University of San Andrés
Lucas Sedeño
Lucas Sedeño National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Mariano Sigman
Mariano Sigman Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan University College London
David Huepe
David Huepe Adolfo Ibáñez University
Tristan A. Bekinschtein
Tristan A. Bekinschtein University of Cambridge

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