Unitat de Recerca en Neurociència Cognitiva

Organisation profile

Organisation profile

The URNC is a social cognitive neuroscience lab at the Department of Psychiatry of the
Autonomous University of Barcelona and at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute.
The URNC applies neuroimaging, neuropsychological and metabolomic techniques to study the
neural and psychological dimensions of fundamental social phenomena, including the adaptations
for motherhood, altruism and pro-sociality, and how these processes may be disrupted leading to
mental health conditions. The URNC has published in Nature Neuroscience, JAMA Psychiatry,
American Journal of Psychiatry, PNAS, among others.
At present, the group has the following active research lines: Adaptations for motherhood
during pregnancy and the postpartum period; mental disorders during pregnancy and the
postpartum period, and social neuroscience of group dynamics.
The group has an active ERC Advanced Grant, one “la Caixa” Foundation Research Health, a
Horizon Pathfinder, a FIS and a Retos I+D.

Research lines

  • Research lines:
  • Neuroscience of the adaptations for motherhood
  • Mental disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum period
  • Neuroscience of moral values
  • 4E-Neuroscience of experiential learning

UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

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  • 9 Citations
  • 2 h-index
  • 5 Article
  • 1 Book

  • Local Functional Connectivity as a Parsimonious Explanation of the Main Frameworks for ADHD in Medication-Naïve Adults

    Marcos-Vidal, L., Martínez-García, M., Martín de Blas, D., Navas-Sánchez, F. J., Pretus, C., Ramos-Quiroga, J. A., Richarte, V., Vilarroya, Ó., Sepulcre, J., Desco, M. & Carmona, S., Nov 2022, In: Journal of Attention Disorders. 26, 13, p. 1788-1801 14 p., 10870547221101646.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

    1 Citation (Scopus)

  • Social norms (not threat) mediate willingness to sacrifice in individuals fused with the nation : Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic

    Vilarroya Oliver, Ó. & Pretus, C., 2022, In: European Journal of Social Psychology. 52, 4, p. 772-781

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

    Open Access
    2 Citations (Scopus)

  • Virtual Ontogeny of Cortical Growth Preceding Mental Illness

    Patel, Y., Shin, J., Abé, C., Agartz, I., Alloza, C., Alnæs, D., Ambrogi, S., Antonucci, L. A., Arango, C., Arolt, V., Auzias, G., Ayesa-Arriola, R., Banaj, N., Banaschewski, T., Bandeira, C., Başgöze, Z., Cupertino, R. B., Bau, C. H. D., Bauer, J., Baumeister, S., & 176 othersBernardoni, F., Bertolino, A., Bonnin, C. D. M., Brandeis, D., Brem, S., Bruggemann, J., Bülow, R., Bustillo, J. R., Calderoni, S., Calvo, R., Canales-Rodríguez, E. J., Cannon, D. M., Carmona, S., Carr, V. J., Catts, S. V., Chenji, S., Chew, Q. H., Coghill, D., Connolly, C. G., Conzelmann, A., Craven, A. R., Crespo-Facorro, B., Cullen, K., Dahl, A., Dannlowski, U., Davey, C. G., Deruelle, C., Díaz-Caneja, C. M., Dohm, K., Ehrlich, S., Epstein, J., Erwin-Grabner, T., Eyler, L. T., Fedor, J., Fitzgerald, J., Foran, W., Ford, J. M., Fortea, L., Fuentes-Claramonte, P., Fullerton, J., Furlong, L., Gallagher, L., Gao, B., Gao, S., Goikolea, J. M., Gotlib, I., Goya-Maldonado, R., Grabe, H. J., Green, M., Grevet, E. H., Groenewold, N. A., Grotegerd, D., Gruber, O., Haavik, J., Hahn, T., Harrison, B. J., Heindel, W., Henskens, F., Heslenfeld, D. J., Hilland, E., Hoekstra, P. J., Hohmann, S., Holz, N., Howells, F. M., Ipser, J. C., Jahanshad, N., Jakobi, B., Jansen, A., Janssen, J., Jonassen, R., Kaiser, A., Kaleda, V., Karantonis, J., King, J. A., Kircher, T., Kochunov, P., Koopowitz, S. M., Landén, M., Landrø, N. I., Lawrie, S., Lebedeva, I., Luna, B., Lundervold, A. J., MacMaster, F. P., Maglanoc, L. A., Mathalon, D. H., McDonald, C., McIntosh, A., Meinert, S., Michie, P. T., Mitchell, P., Moreno-Alcázar, A., Mowry, B., Muratori, F., Nabulsi, L., Nenadić, I., O'Gorman Tuura, R., Oosterlaan, J., Overs, B., Pantelis, C., Parellada, M., Pariente, J. C., Pauli, P., Pergola, G., Piarulli, F. M., Picon, F., Piras, F., Pomarol-Clotet, E., Pretus, C., Quidé, Y., Radua, J., Ramos-Quiroga, J. A., Rasser, P. E., Reif, A., Retico, A., Roberts, G., Rossell, S., Rovaris, D. L., Rubia, K., Sacchet, M., Salavert, J., Salvador, R., Sarró, S., Sawa, A., Schall, U., Scott, R., Selvaggi, P., Silk, T., Sim, K., Skoch, A., Spalletta, G., Spaniel, F., Stein, D. J., Steinsträter, O., Stolicyn, A., Takayanagi, Y., Tamm, L., Tavares, M., Teumer, A., Thiel, K., Thomopoulos, S. I., Tomecek, D., Tomyshev, A. S., Tordesillas-Gutiérrez, D., Tosetti, M., Uhlmann, A., Van Rheenen, T., Vazquez-Bourgón, J., Vernooij, M. W., Vieta, E., Vilarroya, O., Weickert, C., Weickert, T., Westlye, L. T., Whalley, H., Willinger, D., Winter, A., Wittfeld, K., Yang, T. T., Yoncheva, Y., Zijlmans, J. L., Hoogman, M., Franke, B., van Rooij, D., Buitelaar, J., Ching, C. R. K., Andreassen, O. A., Pozzi, E., Veltman, D., Schmaal, L., van Erp, T. G. M., Turner, J., Castellanos, F. X., Pausova, Z., Thompson, P. & Paus, T., 1 Aug 2022, In: Biological Psychiatry. 92, 4, p. 299-313 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

    6 Citations (Scopus)
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