Grants for Research Projects in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Eight subsidies were granted for Research Projects on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to the following researchers:

– Dr. Celso Arango López, Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital in Madrid. Project:“Prognostic value and etiopathogenic bases in 5-year brain changes in the first psychotic episodes in children and adolescents.”

– Dra. Inmaculada Baeza Pertegaz,Fundació Privada Clínic per a la Recerca Biomedica. Clínici Universitari Hospital in Barcelona. Project: “Predictor variables for clinical and functional prognosis in children and adolescents with a first psychotic episode.”

– Dra. Marina Díaz Marsá, Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica, San Carlos Clinical Hospital (FIB HCSC) in Madrid. Project: “Clinical characteristics and inflammatory response in eating disorders among adolescents.”

– Dr. Fernando Maestú Unturbe, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Title of the project: “From autism to schizophrenia. Study of the neurophysiological substrate underlying brain dysfunction in Schizophrenia and Autism Spectrum Disorders using magnetoencephalography”.

– Dr. Jordi Navarra Ordoño, Fundació Privada per la Docencia i la Recerca Sant Joan de Deu (FSJD), Barcelona. Project:“Motor alterations underlying Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD): diagnostic implications.”

– Dra. Carmen Pallás Alonso, 12 de Octubre University Hospital in Madrid. Project: “Newborn individualised development care and assessment programme (NIDCAP) as the possible factor for protecting psychological adjustments in newborn babies weighing less than 1,500 g: a multidisciplinary approach.”

– Dra. María José Parellada Redondo, Gregorio Marañón General University Hospital in Madrid. Project: “Study of the digestive inflammatory conditions in autism spectrum disorders.”

– Dra. Gisela Sugranyes Ernest, August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute in Barcelona. Project: “Functional connectivity in a sample of children and adolescents with a genetic risk of psychosis.”