Tomás Palomo Álvarez

Biography

He received his medical degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1971, a doctorate from the University of Valladolid in 1974. In 1971 he began his university career as an assistant professor of Neuroanatomy in Valladolid and since then he has led multidisciplinary clinical-preclinical research groups around bases of psychiatric disorders in Spain and the United Kingdom. From 1975 to 1978 he worked at the MRC Brain Metabolism Unit at the University of Edinburgh where he began his studies on the molecular basis of Schizophrenia using animal models of dopaminergic dysfunction. From 1979 he is professor of Psychiatry at the Universities of Newcastle (1979-1980), Aberdeen (1980-1984) and since 1985 at the Complutense University of Madrid. From 2007 to 2010 it has beencoordinator of CIBERSAM's schizophrenia program and a member of its steering committee. He has been Director of the Official School of Psychiatry from 1989 to 2004 and President of the National Commission of Psychiatry from 1995 to 2006. In his scientific career he emphasizes the promotion of clinical-preclinical research in Spain and the creation of the Brain and Mind Foundation , a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the promotion and development of Basic and Applied Neuroscience. It has organized 26 national and international scientific congresses in Spain on neuroscientific advances and psychiatry and has published more than 200 scientific works of which more than 100 are international. He is the editor of the national book series "Neuroscience Advances and Clinical Reality" (9 volumes) and the international series:

Research Interest

Neurology