 
    Eduard Parellada
Head of the Schizophrenia Unit PsychiatristResearch group
- Schizophrenia Group leader (R4)
About me
Eduard Parellada is head of the Barcelona Clínic Schizophrenia Unit of the Hospital Clínic and Senior Consultant of the Psychiatry Service. He has a doctorate in Medicine (University of Barcelona, UB) and a Master's in Clinical Sciences (University of Montreal). He has developed his clinical, teaching and translational research activity on schizophrenia, as a researcher at IDIBAPS and CIBERSAM. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine and AQU-accredited Full Professor. He has led the current creation of the Basic and Translational Research Laboratory in Schizophrenia
    Featured publications
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                    Effects of the PAM of mGluR2, JNJ-46356479, on brain apoptotic protein levels in a mouse model of schizophreniaAuthors:Reference: Progress In Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 2024.
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                    Early treatment with JNJ-46356479, a mGluR2 modulator, improves behavioral and neuropathological deficits in a postnatal ketamine mouse model of schizophreniaAuthors:Reference: Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 2023.
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                    Systematic Review of the Therapeutic Role of Apoptotic Inhibitors in Neurodegeneration and Their Potential Use in SchizophreniaAuthors:Reference: Antioxidants 2022.
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                    Glutamate and microglia activation as a driver of dendritic apoptosis: a core pathophysiological mechanism to understand schizophreniaAuthors:Reference: Translational Psychiatry 2021.
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                    Microarray gene-expression study in fibroblast and lymphoblastoid cell lines from antipsychotic-naïve first-episode schizophrenia patientsAuthors:Reference: Journal Of Psychiatric Research 2017.
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                    Apoptotic markers in cultured fibroblasts correlate with brain metabolites and regional brain volume in antipsychotic-naive first-episode schizophrenia and healthy controlsAuthors:Reference: Translational Psychiatry 2015.
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                    Neurotoxic/neuroprotective activity of haloperidol, risperidone and paliperidone in neuroblastoma cellsAuthors:Reference: Progress In Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 2012.
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                    A 4-year dopamine transporter (DAT) imaging study in neuroleptic-naive first episode schizophrenia patientsAuthors:Reference: Psychiatry Research-Neuroimaging 2011.
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                    Differential brain glucose metabolic patterns in antipsychotic-naive first-episode schizophrenia with and without auditory verbal hallucinationsAuthors:Reference: Journal Of Psychiatry & Neuroscience 2011.
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                    The resting and activation issue of hypofrontality:: A single photon emission computed tomography study in neuroleptic-naive and neuroleptic-free schizophrenic female patientsAuthors:Reference: Biological Psychiatry 1998.
Featured Projects
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                Marcadores glutamatérgicos y respuesta antipsicótica inicial en pacientes con primer episodio psicótico (PEP) y en un modelo animal de esquizofreniaPrincipal investigator: Eduard Parellada Rodon, Patricia Gassó AstorgaFunder: Instituto de Salud Carlos IIICode: PI21/00552Duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2024
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                Estudio convergente en modelo celular, animal y humano del efecto y mecanismos de acción de la clozapina e inhibidores de glutamato en los síntomas negativos-cognitivos de la esquizofreniaPrincipal investigator: Eduard Parellada Rodon, Patricia Gassó AstorgaFunder: Instituto de Salud Carlos IIICode: PI18/01005Duration: 01/01/2019 - 30/06/2023
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                Cellular, molecular, genetic and cognitive-behavioral characterization of the antiapoptotic effect of clozapine and glutamate inhibitors in a postnatal ketamine animal model of schizophreniaPrincipal investigator: Eduard Parellada RodonFunder: Fundació de Recerca Clínic Barcelona-Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i SunyerCode: FCRB_PB2_2018Duration: 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2022
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                Apoptosis y cambios estructurales progresivos en pacientes con un primer episodio de esquizofrenia: estudio longitudinal y multimodal de neuroimagen y biología molecular.Principal investigator: Eduard Parellada RodonFunder: Instituto de Salud Carlos IIICode: PI080055.Duration: 01/01/2009 - 31/12/2011
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                Neuroanatomía funcional de las alucinaciones auditivas en la esquizofrenia: estudio multidisciplinar con PET-F18-FDG en el episodio psicótico agudo, durante la remisión y durante la estimulación acústicaPrincipal investigator: Eduard Parellada RodonFunder: Fundació La Marató de TV3Code: 012410Duration: 01/01/2002 - 31/12/2003
