Josefina Castro Fornieles
CLINICAL AND PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL OF BARCELONA
Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute
Spain
Biography
Doctorate in Medicine by the University of Barcelona and specialist in Psychiatry. Master of Hospital Management at the University of Barcelona. Head of the Psychiatry and Child and Youth Psychology Service of the Hospital Clinico de Barcelona. She is an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona and is the coordinator of the optional subject of Child Psychiatry. She is also co-director of the Master's Degree in Child Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona. She is the author of books, book chapters and other educational publications related to psychiatric disorders in children. He is a Researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi Sunyer (IDIBAPS) in the team of biological bases of the psychology and psychiatry and of the CIBER of Mental Illnesses (CIBER-SAM) of the Carlos III Health Institute. She is the author of numerous articles in national and intemational journals on psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. His preferred lines of research are the rest of the food, the obsessive-compulsive and the psychotic. She is the author of numerous articles in national and intemational journals on psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. His preferred lines of research are the rest of the food, the obsessive-compulsive and the psychotic.
Research Interest
Psychiatry
Publications
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Castro-Fornieles J1, Casulà V, Saura B, MartÃnez E, Lazaro L, Vila M, Plana MT, Toro J.Predictors of weight maintenance after hospital discharge in adolescent anorexia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord. 2007 Mar;40(2):129-35.
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Castro-Fornieles J1, Parellada M, Soutullo CA, Baeza I, Gonzalez-Pinto A, Graell M, Paya B, Moreno D, de la Serna E, Arango C. Antipsychotic treatment in child and adolescent first-episode psychosis: a longitudinal naturalistic approach. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol. 2008 Aug;18(4):327-36.
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Castro-Fornieles J1,2, Bargalló N3, Calvo A3, Arango C4, Baeza I5, Gonzalez-Pinto A6, Parellada M4, Graell M7, Moreno C4, Otero S8, Janssen J4,9, Rapado-Castro M4, de la Serna E5. Gray matter changes and cognitive predictors of 2-year follow-up abnormalities in early-onset first-episode psychosis. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2017 Jul 13.