Psychiatry and Mental Health

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• Enrique Baca García (Associate Professor UAM / Associated group, CIBERSAM)

Research staff

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• Juan José Carballo Belloso
• Rodrigo Carmona Camacho
• María Luisa Barrigón Estévez
• Rebeca García Nieto

Trainee staff

• Elsa Arrua
• Leticia Serrano Marugán
• Marisa Herraiz
• Ruth Polo del Río
• Antonio Vian Alves Lains
• Alex Raúl Lorie Vega
• María José Zamorano Ibarra
• Alba Serrano Capdevilla
• Silvia Vallejo Oñate
• María Constanza Vera Valera
• Covadonga Bonal Giménez
• Carmen Vidal Mariño
• Lucía Rodríguez Blanco
• Susana González Rueda
• Pedro Gutiérrez Recacha
• Ana López
• Gema Ahijado Aguado
• Elena Hernando Merino
• Iratxe Tapia Jara
• Sara Cabañas Barrajón
• Rosa Ana Bello Sousa

Technical staff and assistants

• Lucía Albarracín García
• Rosa Mª de Almeida Nunes
• Paloma Aroca Bisquert
• Montserrat Sánchez Alonso
• Gema Sánchez Martín

Main lines of research

Suicidal behavior: study of the characteristics of suicide attempts in order to identify risk factors and hence identify and prevent suicide risk.

Genetics of mental disorders

* Principal Investigator: Enrique Baca García

Publications (2014)

1. Ovejero S Caro-Cañizares I de León-Martínez V Baca-Garcia E.Prolonged social withdrawal disorder: a hikikomori case in Spain.Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2014 Sep;60(6):562-5. doi: 10.1177/0020764013504560. Epub 2013 Oct 6..PubMed PMID:24101742

2. Carballo Juan J García-Nieto Rebeca Harkavy-Friedman Jill de Leon-Martinez Victoria Baca-García Enrique .Aggressiveness across development and suicidal behavior in depressed patients.Arch Suicide Res. 2014;18(1):39-49. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2013.801808..PubMed PMID:24579919

3. Cyprien F, Guillaume S, Jaussent I, Lopez-Castroman J, Mercier G, Olie E, Courtet P.Impact of axis-I comorbidity and suicidal behavior disorders on sensitivity and specificity of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire in complex depressed inpatients.Compr Psychiatry. 2014 May;55(4):876-82. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.02.004. Epub 2014 Feb 13..PubMed PMID:24625765

4. O'Mahony N, Florentino-Liano B, Carballo JJ, Baca-García E, Rodríguez AA.Objective diagnosis of ADHD using IMUs.Med Eng Phys. 2014 Jul;36(7):922-6. doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2014.02.023. Epub 2014 Mar 20..PubMed PMID:24657100

5. Giner Lucas Jaussent Isabelle Olié Emilie Béziat Séverine Guillaume Sébastien Baca-Garcia Enrique Lopez-Castroman Jorge Courtet Philippe .Violent and serious suicide attempters: one step closer to suicide?J Clin Psychiatry. 2014 Mar;75(3):e191-7. doi: 10.4088/JCP.13m08524..PubMed PMID:24717390

6. Vaquero-Lorenzo C, López-Castromán J, Bermudo-Soriano CR, Saiz-Ruiz J, Fernández-Piqueras J, Baca-García E.Putative association between the -1415 T/C polymorphism of spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase (SSAT1) gene and alcohol use disorders in women and men.Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2014 May;40(3):240-3. doi: 10.3109/00952990.2014.891039. Epub 2014 Apr 15..PubMed PMID:24735382

7. Perez-Rodriguez M Mercedes Baca-Garcia Enrique Oquendo Maria A Wang Shuai Wall Melanie M Liu Shang-Min Blanco Carlos .Relationship between acculturation, discrimination, and suicidal ideation and attempts among US Hispanics in the National Epidemiologic Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions.J Clin Psychiatry. 2014 Apr;75(4):399-407. doi: 10.4088/JCP.13m08548..PubMed PMID:24813407

8. Carballo JJ, Serrano-Drozdowskyj E, García Nieto R, Díaz de Neira-Hernando M, Pérez-Fominaya M, Molina-Pizarro CA, De León-Martínez V, Baca-García E.Prevalence and correlates of psychopathology in children and adolescents evaluated with the strengths and difficulties questionnaire dysregulation profile in a clinical setting.Psychopathology. 2014;47(5):303-11. doi: 10.1159/000360822. Epub 2014 May 8..PubMed PMID:24819241

9. Oquendo Maria A Baca-Garcia Enrique .Suicidal behavior disorder as a diagnostic entity in the DSM-5 classification system: advantages outweigh limitations.World Psychiatry. 2014 Jun;13(2):128-30. doi: 10.1002/wps.20116. .PubMed PMID:24890057

10. García-Nieto R, Blasco-Fontecilla H, de León-Martinez V, Baca-García E.Clinical features associated with suicide attempts versus suicide gestures in an inpatient sample.Arch Suicide Res. 2014;18(4):419-31. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2013.845122..PubMed PMID:24940628

11. Pérez-Costillas L, Blasco-Fontecilla H, Benítez N, Comino R, Antón JM, Ramos-Medina V, Lopez A, Palomo JL, Madrigal L, Alcalde J, Perea-Millá E, Artieda-Urrutia P, de León-Martínez V, de Diego-Otero Y.[Space-time suicide clustering in the community of Antequera (Spain)].Rev Psiquiatr Salud Ment. 2015 Jan-Mar;8(1):26-34. doi: 10.1016/j.rpsm.2014.01.007. Epub 2014 Jun 27. Spanish. .PubMed PMID:24986472

12. Lopez-Castroman J, Jaussent I, Beziat S, Guillaume S, Baca-Garcia E, Genty C, Olié E, Courtet P.Increased severity of suicidal behavior in impulsive aggressive patients exposed to familial adversities.Psychol Med. 2014 Oct;44(14):3059-68. doi: 10.1017/S0033291714000646. Epub 2014 Mar 26..PubMed PMID:25065374

13. Ivorra JL, Rivero O, Costas J, Iniesta R, Arrojo M, Ramos-Ríos R, Carracedo A, Palomo T, Rodriguez-Jimenez R, Cervilla J, Gutiérrez B, Molina E, Arango C, Alvarez M, Pascual JC, Pérez V, Saiz PA, García-Portilla MP, Bobes J, González-Pinto A, Zorrilla I, Haro JM, Bernardo M, Baca-García E, González JC, Hoenicka J, Moltó MD, Sanjuán J.Replication of previous genome-wide association studies of psychiatric diseases in a large schizophrenia case-control sample from Spain.Schizophr Res. 2014 Oct;159(1):107-13. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.07.004. Epub 2014 Aug 12..PubMed PMID:25124521

14. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez M, Mahon K, Russo M, Ungar AK, Burdick KE.Oxytocin and social cognition in affective and psychotic disorders.Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2015 Feb;25(2):265-82. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2014.07.012. Epub 2014 Aug 1..PubMed PMID:25153535

15. Lopez-Castroman Jorge Jaussent Isabelle Beziat Severine Guillaume Sebastien Baca-Garcia Enrique Olié Emilie Courtet Philippe .Posttraumatic Stress Disorder following childhood abuse increases the severity of suicide attempts.J Affect Disord. 2015 Jan 1;170:7-14. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2014.08.010. Epub 2014 Aug 15..PubMed PMID:25217758

16. García-Nieto R, Carballo JJ, Hernando MD, de León-Martinez V, Baca-García E.Clinical Correlates of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) in an Outpatient Sample of Adolescents.Arch Suicide Res. 2015 Apr-Jun;19(2):218-30. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2014.957447..PubMed PMID:25257184

17. Lopez-Castroman J Guillaume S Olié E Jaussent I Baca-Garcia E Courtet P .The additive effect on suicidality of family history of suicidal behavior and early traumatic experiences.Arch Suicide Res. 2015 Apr-Jun;19(2):275-83. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2014.957449..PubMed PMID:25259671

18. Oquendo Maria A Sullivan Gregory M Sudol Katherin Baca-Garcia Enrique Stanley Barbara H Sublette M Elizabeth Mann J John .Toward a biosignature for suicide.Am J Psychiatry. 2014 Dec 1;171(12):1259-77. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.14020194. Epub 2014 Oct 31..PubMed PMID:25263730

19. Lopez-Castroman Jorge Courtet Philippe Baca-Garcia Enrique Oquendo Maria A .Identification of suicide risk in bipolar disorder.Bipolar Disord. 2015 Feb;17(1):22-3. doi: 10.1111/bdi.12264. Epub 2014 Oct 24. .PubMed PMID:25346206

20. Rodríguez-Blanco Lucía de Neira Mónica Díaz García-Nieto Rebeca Zamorano-Ibarra María José Ramos-García Silvia Segura-Frontelo Alberto Baca-García Enrique Carballo Juan José .Victimization exposure and suicidal ideation among Spaniard adolescents evaluated at outpatient mental health services.Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2015;27(2):213-9. doi: 10.1515/ijamh-2015-5014..PubMed PMID:25389986

21. Berrouiguet Sofian Alavi Zarrin Vaiva Guillaume Courtet Philippe Baca-García Enrique Vidailhet Pierre Gravey Michel Guillodo Elise Brandt Sara Walter Michel .SIAM (Suicide intervention assisted by messages): the development of a post-acute crisis text messaging outreach for suicide prevention.BMC Psychiatry. 2014 Nov 18;14:294. doi: 10.1186/s12888-014-0294-8..PubMed PMID:25404215

22. Caro-Cañizares I, García-Nieto, Carballo JJ.Biological and environmental predictors of the dysregulation profile in children and adolescents: the story so far.Int J Adolesc Med Health. 2015;27(2):135-41. doi: 10.1515/ijamh-2015-5004..PubMed PMID:25411984

23. Blasco-Fontecilla H Peñas-Lledó E Vaquero-Lorenzo C Dorado P Saiz-Ruiz J Llerena A Baca-García E.CYP2D6 polymorphism and mental and personality disorders in suicide attempters.J Pers Disord. 2014 Dec;28(6):873-83. doi: 10.1521/pedi_2012_26_080..PubMed PMID:25437930

24. Carballo JJ Rodríguez-Blanco l García-Nieto R Baca-García E.Screening for the ADHD Phenotype Using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in a Clinical Sample of Newly Referred Children and Adolescents.J Atten Disord. 2014 Dec 16. doi:pii: 1087054714561858. [Epub ahead of print].PubMed PMID:25515677

25. Lopez-Castroman J Baca-Garcia E World Research Consortium For Suicide Woreca Courtet P Oquendo MA.A Cross-National Tool for Assessing and Studying Suicidal Behaviors.Arch Suicide Res. 2014 Dec 20. [Epub ahead of print].PubMed PMID:25529607

Projects, Donations, Worhshops (2013)

1. "Aplicación de técnicas espaciales en la distribución de las enfermedades mentales y de su asistencia en dispositivos públicos" Investigador Principal Dr. E. Baca García.

Proyecto Público competitivo SAF2010-21849.

2. "AGES: Ambiente y genes en esquizofrenia" Investigador Principal Dr. E. Baca García.

Proyecto Público competitivo S2010/BMD-2422 AGES.

3. "Grupo de investigación asociado del CIBER de salud mental" Investigador Principal Dr. E. Baca García.

Proyecto Público competitivo CIBERSAM.

4. "Hipolesterolemia e intentos de suicidio: explorando asociaciones genéticas" Investigador Principal Dr. E. Baca García. Ref. 4594/008.

Financiación privada.

5. "International latino research partnership (ILRP)" Investigador Principal Dr. E. Baca García. Ref. 4594/0010.

Financiación privada.

6. "Adquisición y formación en el uso de los sensores inerciales de movimientos para la práctica clínica de la especialidad" Investigador Principal Dr. E. Baca García. Ref. 4594/011.

Financiación privada.

7. "Donación" Investigador Principal Dr. E. Baca García. Ref. 4594/009.

Financiación privada.

8. "Programa de formación teórica. Servicio de psiquiatría: módulo de formación tratamiento" Investigador Principal Dr. E. Baca García. Ref. 4594/003.

Financiación privada.

9. "Actividad formativa de Servicio de psiquiatría" Investigador Principal Dr. E. Baca García. Ref. 4594/005.

Financiación privada.

Clinical trials and Observational studies (2013)

1. Clinical trial "CLOZAPINA en primeros brotes de esquizofrenia como posible tratamiento preventivo del deterioro cerebral y clínico". (NºEUDRACT: 2006-002000-34. Clinical trial Fase IV Multicéntrico. Investigador Principal: E. Baca García.