Josefina Castro-Fornieles

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Featured publications

• Relationship between cognition and age at onset of first-episode psychosis: comparative study between adolescents, young adults, and adults

  Authors: De la Serna E, Puig O, Mezquida G, Moreno-Izco L, Merchan-Naranjo J, Amoretti S, Ruiz P, Gonzalez-Pinto A, Molina-García M, Corripio I, Vieta E, Baeza I, Berge D, Penadés R, Sanchez-Torres A, Cuesta MJ, Bernardo M, Castro-Fornieles J, PEP’s Group.

  Reference: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2023.

• Longitudinal study in adolescent anorexia nervosa: evaluation of cortico-striatal and default mode network resting-state brain circuits

  Authors: Via E, Calvo A, de la Serna E, Blázquez A, Lázaro L, Andrés-Perpiñá S, Plana MT, Flamarique I, Martínez E, Pariente J, Moreno E, Bargallo N, Castro-Fornieles J .

  Reference: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2023.

• In vivo white matter microstructure in adolescents with early-onset psychosis: a multi-site mega-analysis

  Authors: Barth C, Kelly S, Nerland S, Jahanshad N, Alloza C, Ambrogi S, Andreassen OA, Andreou D, Arango C, Baeza I, Banaj N, Bearden CE, Berk M, Bohman H, Castro-Fornieles J, Chye Y, Crespo-Facorro B, de la Serna E, Díaz-Caneja CM, Gurholt TP, Hegarty CE, James A, Janssen J, Johannessen C, Jönsson EG, Karlsgodt KH, Kochunov P, Lois NG, Lundberg M, Myhre AM, Pascual-Diaz S, Piras F, Smelror RE, Spalletta G, Stokkan TS, Sugranyes G, Suo C, Thomopoulos SI, Tordesillas-Gutiérrez D, Vecchio D, Wedervang-Resell K, Wortinger LA, Thompson PM, Agartz I .

  Reference: Molecular Psychiatry 2023.

• Polygenic Scores and Onset of Major Mood or Psychotic Disorders Among Offspring of Affected Parents

  Authors: Zwicker A; Fullerton JM; Mullins N; Rice F; Hafeman DM; van Haren NEM; Setiaman N; Merranko JA; Goldstein BI; Ferrera AG; Stapp EK; de la Serna E; Moreno D; Sugranyes G; Herrero SM; Roberts G; Toma C; Schofield PR; Edenberg HJ; Wilcox HC; McInnis MG; Powell V; Propper L; Denovan-Wright E; Rouleau G; Castro-Fornieles J; Hillegers MHJ; Birmaher B; Thapar A; Mitchell PB; Lewis CM; Alda M; Nurnberger JI; Uher R.

  Reference: American Journal Of Psychiatry 2023.

• Prodromal symptoms and the duration of untreated psychosis in first episode of psychosis patients: what differences are there between early vs. adult onset and between schizophrenia vs. bipolar disorder?

  Authors: Baeza I; de la Serna E; Mezquida G; Cuesta MJ; Vieta E; Amoretti S; Lobo A; González-Pinto A; Díaz-Caneja CM; Corripio I; Valli I; Puig O; Mané A; Bioque M; Ayora M; Bernardo M; Castro-Fornieles J; PEPs group.

  Reference: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2023.

• Clinical characterisation of patients in the post-acute stage of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: a prospective cohort study and comparison with patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders

  Authors: Guasp M, Rosa-Justicia M, Muñoz-Lopetegi A, Martínez-Hernández E, Armangué T, Sugranyes G, Stein H, Borràs R, Prades L, Ariño H, Planagumà J, De-La-Serna E, Escudero D, Llufriu S, Sánchez-Valle R, Santamaria J, Compte A, Castro-Fornieles J, Dalmau J, Spanish anti-NMDAR Encephalitis Study Group.

  Reference: Lancet Neurology 2022.

• Subgrouping children and adolescents with disruptive behaviors: symptom profiles and the role of callous–unemotional traits

  Authors: Rosa-Justicia M; Saam MC; Flamarique I; Borràs R; Naaijen J; Dietrich A; Hoekstra PJ; Banaschewski T; Aggensteiner P; Craig MC; Sethi A; Santosh P; Sagar-Ouriaghli I; Arango C; Penzol MJ; Brandeis D; Werhahn JE; Glennon JC; Franke B; Zwiers MP; Buitelaar JK; Schulze UME; Castro-Fornieles J.

  Reference: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2022.

• Psychometric properties of the Cognitive Reserve Questionnaire for Adolescents (CoRe-A) [Propiedades psicométricas del Cuestionario de Reserva Cognitiva para Adolescentes (CoRe-A)]

  Authors: Camprodon-Boadas P; de la Serna E; Baeza I; Ilzarbe D; Puig O; Andrés-Perpiñá S; Sugranyes G; Castro-Fornieles J.

  Reference: Revista De Psiquiatria Y Salud Mental 2022.

• Premorbid Characteristics as Predictors of Early Onset Versus Adult Onset in Patients With a First Episode of Psychosis

  Authors: Baeza I, de la Serna E, Amoretti S, Cuesta MJ, Díaz-Caneja CM, Mezquida G, Lobo A, González-Pinto A, Corripio I, Vieta E, Puig O, Legido T, Bioque M, García-Rizo C, Bernardo M, Castro-Fornieles J, PEPs Group.

  Reference: Journal Of Clinical Psychiatry 2021.

• Cortical thickness 20 years after diagnosis of anorexia nervosa during adolescence

  Authors: Castro-Fornieles J, de la Serna E, Calvo A, Pariente J, Andrés-Perpiña S, Plana MT, Romero S, Flamarique I, Gárriz M, Bargalló N .

  Reference: European Archives Of Psychiatry And Clinical Neuroscience 2021.

Featured Projects

• Running in the FAMILY. Undrestandign and predicting the intergenerational transmission of mental illness

  Duration: 01/01/2023

• Clinical, cognitive, neuroimaging and epigenetic characteristics of children and adolescent offspring of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder: a predictive model of psychopathology and functioning at ten-year follow-up.

  Principal investigator: Josefina Castro Fornieles

  Code: 202310

  Duration: 01/01/2023

• FARMacogenética Aplicada para Predecir la REspuesta al tratamiento Del Primer Episodio Psicótico (Proyecto FARMAPRED-PEP)

  Code: PMP21/00085

  Duration: 01/01/2023

• Interacción genética y ambiente en hijos de pacientes con esquizofrenia y trastrono bipolar

  Principal investigator: Josefina Castro Fornieles

  Code: PI21/00519

  Duration: 01/01/2022

• Early INtervention to improve Cognitve REserve in subjects At riSk and Early stages of psychosis (INCREASE)

  Principal investigator: Josefina Castro Fornieles

  Code: PI046550

  Duration: 01/01/2021