Josefina Castro-Fornieles

About me

Featured publications

• 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, Inmaculada; de la Serna, Elena; Mezquida, Gisela; Cuesta, Manuel; Vieta, Eduard;

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  Mane, Anna; Bioque, Miquel; Ayora, Miriam; Bernardo, Miquel; Castro-Fornieles, Josefina.

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  Reference: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2024.

• 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;

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  Penades, R; Sanchez-Torres, A; Cuesta, M J; Bernardo, M; Castro-Fornieles, J.

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  Reference: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2023.

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

  Authors:

  Zwicker, Alyson; Fullerton, Janice M; Mullins, Niamh; Rice, Frances; Hafeman, Danella M;

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  Mitchell, Philip B; Lewis, Cathryn M; Alda, Martin; Nurnberger, John I; Uher, Rudolf.

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  Reference: American Journal Of 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; Pariente, J; Bargallo, N; de la Serna, E;

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  Plana, MT; Flamarique, I; Martínez, E; Moreno, E; Castro-Fornieles, J.

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  Reference: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2023.

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

  Authors:

  Barth, Claudia; Kelly, Sinead; Nerland, Stener; Jahanshad, Neda; Alloza, Clara;

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  Vecchio, Daniela; Wedervang-Resell, Kirsten; Wortinger, Laura A; Thompson, Paul M; Agartz, Ingrid.

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  Reference: Molecular 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, Mar; Rosa-Justicia, Mireia; Munoz-Lopetegi, Amaia; Martinez-Hernandez, Eugenia; Armangue, Thais;

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  Llufriu, Sara; Sanchez-Valle, Raquel; Santamaria, Joan; Castro-Fornielest, Josefina; Dalmau, Josep.

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  Reference: Lancet Neurology 2022.

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

  Authors:

  Rosa-Justicia, Mireia; Saam, Melanie C; Flamarique, Itziar; Borras, Roger; Naaijen, Jilly;

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  Franke, Barbara; Zwiers, Marcel P; Buitelaar, Jan K; Schulze, Ulrike M E; Castro-Fornieles, Josefina.

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  Reference: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2022.

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

  Authors:

  Baeza, Inmaculada; de la Serna, Elena; Amoretti, Silvia; Cuesta, Manuel J; Diaz-Caneja, Covadonga M;

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  Legido, Teresa; Bioque, Miquel; Garcia-Rizo, Clemente; Bernardo, Miquel; Castro-Fornieles, Josefina.

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  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; Andrés-Perpiña, S; Plana, MT; Romero, S;

  Flamarique, I; Calvo, A; Pariente, J; Gárriz, M; Bargalló, N.

  Reference: European Archives Of Psychiatry And Clinical Neuroscience 2021.

Featured Projects

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

  Principal investigator: Sergi Mas Herrero

  Code: PMP21/00085

  Duration: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2025

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

  Principal investigator: Gisela Sugranyes Ernest

  Funder: European Commission

  Code: CE_HE_CH_21_1s21_RIA

  Duration: 01/10/2022 - 30/09/2027

• 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: TV3_SalutMental_21

  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)

  Duration: 01/01/2021