Karina Macdowell Mata
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute
Spain
Biography
Graduated in Medical Technology with mention in Morphophysiopathology by the University of Chile (2008). Master's Degree in Immunology Research by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2012). Dra. In Biomedical Research by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2015). Author of various scientific articles and communications to national and international congresses, and participant in several research projects in the last five years. Honorary collaborator of the Department of Pharmacology of the Complutense University of Madrid and in the scientific training of students of degree and Master. At present his lines of research focus on the study of neuropathologies with neuroinflammatory component associated with stress as the first psychotic episodes and bipolar disorder, among others. In turn, it studies the anti-inflammatory effect of some atypical antipsychotics in animal models of stress and schizophrenia.
Research Interest
Pharmacology
Publications
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Mara Parellada, Carmen Moreno, Karina S. MacDowell, Celso Arango. Plasma antioxidant capacity is reduced in Asperger syndrome. Journal of Psychiatric Research 46(3):394-401 · March 2012