E029 – Cognitive Neuroscience

Objectives

The group was interested in the neural bases of both cognitive and affective processes in normal populations of different ages and in clinical populations (impaired cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, alcoholism, fibromyalgia) and risk (abusive alcohol consumption in youth), with the ultimate intention of Transfer knowledge to the health and social sphere.
For this, he uses behavioral, cognitive, neuropsychological, psychophysiological (EEG, evoked potentials,…), structural (NMR) and functional (fMRI) neuroimaging techniques; as well as non-invasive transcranial neuromodulation techniques (EMT, EET).

Lines of research

1) Cognitive and neurocognitive correlates of the healthy aging process and those with mild cognitive impairment and dementia (particularly Alzheimer’s disease);
2) Neurocognitive consequences of intensive alcohol consumption (binge drinking) in young people.
3) Neuropsychological, psychophysiological and neuroimaging evaluation, patients with fibromyalgia;

• Dubbelman, M. A., Verrijp, M., Facal, D., Sánchez-Benavides, G., Brown, L., van der Flier, W. M., Jokinen, H., Lee, A., Leroi, I., Lojo-Seoane, C., Milošević, V., Molinuevo, J. L., Pereiro Rozas, A. X., Ritchie, C., Salloway, S., Stringer, G., Zygouris, S., Dubois, B., Epelbaum, S., Scheltens, P., … Sikkes, S.  The influence of diversity on the measurement of functional impairment: An international validation of the Amsterdam IADL Questionnaire in eight countries. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 2020, 12(1), e12021.
• Campos-Magdaleno, M., Pereiro, A., Navarro-Pardo, E., Juncos-Rabadán, O., Facal, D. Dual-task performance in old adults: cognitive, functional, psychosocial and socio-demographic variables. Aging Clin Exp Res (2021). doi: 10.1007/s40520-021-02002-x
• Fernández, A., Pinal, D, Díaz, F., Zurrón, M. (2021). Working memory load modulates oscillatory activity and the distribution of fast frequencies across frontal theta phase during working memory maintenance. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 183 (2021) 107476. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107476 
• Gerra, M. C., González-Villar, A., Arendt-Nielsen, L., Pedersen, I. S., Triñanes, Y., Donnini, C., … & Carrillo-de-la-Peña, M. T. A family-based study to identify genetic biomarkers of fibromyalgia: consideration of patients’ subgroups. Clin Exp Rheumatol, 2021, 39(130), S144-S152.
• López Vilaret, K.M., Cantero, J.L., Fernández-Álvarez, M., Calero, M., Calero, O., Lindín, M., Zurrón, M., Díaz, F., & Atienza, M. (2021). Insulin resistance and hyperglycemia moderate the crosstalk between adipose tissue, brain and cognition in aging. Aging 2021, 13, 21, 23936- 23952
• Pereiro, A. X., Valladares-Rodriguez, S., Felpete, A., Lojo-Seoane, C., Campos-Magdaleno, M., Mallo, S. C., Facal, D., Anido-Rifón, L., Belleville, S., & Juncos-Rabadán, O. (2021). Relevance of Complaint Severity in Predicting the Progression of Subjective Cognitive Decline and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Machine Learning Approach. Journal of Alzheimer’s disease, 82, 1229–1242. doi: 10.3233/JAD-210334
• Samartin-Veiga, N., Pidal-Miranda, M., González-Villar, A. J., Bradley, C., Garcia-Larrea, L., O’Brien, A. T., & Carrillo-de-la-Peña, M. T. (2021). Transcranial direct current stimulation of three cortical targets is no more effective than placebo as treatment for fibromyalgia: a double-blind sham-controlled clinical trial. PAIN, 23 Sep 2021. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002493; PMID: 34561393
• Busto-Miramontes, A., Moure-Rodríguez, L., Mallah, N., Díaz-Geada, A., Corral, M., Cadaveira, F., y Caamaño-Isorna, F. (2021). Alcohol Consumption among Freshman College Students in Spain: Individual and Pooled Analyses of Three Cross-Sectional Surveys (2005, 2012 and 2016). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 2548. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18052548