Labs

We study human behavior and neural circuits associated with inhibitory control (reactive, proactive) and habit formation. With up-to-date experimental and real-life measures, we exploit neuroimaging and neuromodulation techniques in healthy subjects and patients (behavioral addiction, Parkinson's disease).

Centro de Neurociencias Cajal - CSIC

Ignacio Obeso, ✉️ iobeso@csic.es

Multidisciplinary research in mental health, with a particular focus on mood disorders, anxiety, and the compulsive spectrum

Universidad de Barcelona

Carles Soriano Mas

✉️ carles.soriano.mas@ub.edu

Our research focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms of addiction and the investigation of the role of the cerebellum in this neuropsychiatric disorder.

Universitat Jaume I Castellón

Marta Miquel

✉️ miquel@uji.es

In2decision Lab is an interdisciplinary research team studying inhibition, flexibility, and decision-making. They focus on understanding the mechanisms underlying these processes and their relevance to mental health, using advanced assessment, neuroimaging (fNIRS), neuromodulation techniques and computational modeling.

Universidad de Almería

Pilar Flores Cubos

✉️ info@in2decision.com

We research in vulnerability to impulsive-compulsive disorders using preclinical models with rodents. 

Our recent results point towards the implication of the serotonin 5-HT2A receptor in compulsive behaviours due to alterations in prefrontal-amygdala brain circuit. We are exploring the use of psychedelics and tDCS to rewire brain circuits that might improve compulsivity behaviours.

Universidad de Almería

Margarita Moreno Montoya

✉️ mgmoreno@ual.es

Our research interests are related to how humans learn new habits and how/when habits interfere with goal-directed actions and attention. We use methods from experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Also, recent efforts have been focused on assessing validity an reliability of current measures indexing habit expression, so we can improve how habits are studied in the human lab. 

Universidad de Málaga

David Luque

✉️ david.luque@gmail.com

Estudiar los mecanismos psicobiológicos que median las conductas desadaptadas, especialmente las relacionadas con el espectro impulsivo-compulsivo y el psicótico, así como la relación entre ambos.tudio de la conducta y circuitos neurales del humano asociados al control inhibitorio (reactivo, proactivo) y formación de hábitos con medidas experimentales y real-life. 

Departamento de Psicobiología

Facultad de Psicología. UNED.

Alejandro Higuera Matas

✉️ ahiguera@psi.uned.es

We seek to explain, through associative learning, how exposure to cues related to unhealthy food can result in automatic overeating responses, leading to overweight and obesity.

A través del aprendizaje asociativo buscamos explicar cómo la exposición masiva a claves relacionadas con comida poco saludable puede resultar en respuestas automáticas de consumo excesivo y por tanto en sobrepeso y obesidad.

CIMCYC - Universidad de Granada

Isabel de Brugada ✉️ dbrugada@ugr.es

Mejorar la comprensión de procesos básicos de aprendizaje (aprendizaje del miedo, de hábitos, etc) y su influencia en trastornos mentales

Clínic/IDIBAPS Barcelona

Miquel A. Fullana

✉️ mafullana@clinic.cat; miguelangelfullana@gmail.com

Our research focuses primarily on the neurobehavioral mechanisms that initiate and maintain excessive behaviors resulting from the application of reinforcement schedules. Using mainly schedule-induced behavior as a laboratory model, research is conducted on activity-based anorexia, behavioral pharmacology of compulsive disorders, neurobiology of habitual behaviors, variables that modulate impulsive decision-making or the behavioral effects of frustration, processes underlying temporal estimation, and the effect of environmental enrichment on behavior.

Departamento de Psicología Básica I, Facultad de Psicología, UNED.

Ricardo Pellón Suárez de Puga – rpellon@psi.uned.es