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This group was created from the Clinical Research in Psychiatry and Mental Health Group led by Professor Juan José López-Ibor until December 2014 and the incorporation of Professor Tomás Palomo, PI of the G19 Group of CIBERSAM. With the aim of continuing the already established lines of research and strengthening them in the area of clinical and basic research on mental disorders, especially psychosis and related disorders, this group has a shared coordination between Prof. Tomás Palomo (Complutense University of Madrid) and Dr. Blanca Reneses (Hospital Clínico San Carlos).
Its activity can be grouped into two main areas of research:
1) Neurobiological research into mental illnesses
This line includes molecular biology, neurocognitive inflammation, and neuroimaging studies in schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other psychiatric illnesses, with numerous bibliographical contributions.
In recent years, the group has been investigating staging as a paradigm for the development, progression, prevention, and treatment of mental illness, for schizophrenia, with numerous publications, and more recently for depression.
Finally, a line of therapeutic innovation has been developed using neuromodulation techniques, by means of deep brain stimulation in psychiatric disorders resistant to conventional treatments. This line is being developed in collaboration with the research group of Prof. Juan Barcia from the Neurosciences area of IdISSC.
2) Psychosocial factors associated with mental illnesses
This includes a research line on psychological trauma and its influence on mental illness, with a leading role in the European project “Child Trauma Network”, and a research line on the fight against the stigma of mental illness in which there is close collaboration with European groups. Relevant publications have already been published along these lines.
David Fraguas is head of the psychiatry section and coordinator of the “Centro” Mental Health Centre, part of the Psychiatry and Mental Health Institute of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid. He has a degree in medicine from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is a specialist in psychiatry (MIR training at the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid) and holds a PhD in the History of Medicine from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos and the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM). He is an associate professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is author or co-author of more than 60 indexed scientific articles. H index (October 2022: Scopus: 25; Google Scholar: 29).
David Fraguas is the scientific coordinator of the national cohort of people with first psychotic episode (CoPEP-CIBERSAM cohort).
David Fraguas has published the books of poems La importancia de las horas (Miguel Hernández Poetry Prize 2008; Devenir, 2008) and Tierras extrañas (El Sastre de Apollinaire, 2021) and the essay Cervantes y la psicoterapia (international prize “Academia del Hispanismo” for Scientific and Critical Research on Spanish Literature 2015; Academia del Hispanismo, 2016). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=fraguas+d&sort=date
