Bio
Como investigadora en neurociencia me he formado en universidades de alto prestigio nacional e internacional (incluyendo Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Columbia University, Harvard University and Massachussets Institute of Technology) así como en hospitales nacionales (Hospital del Mar, Centro de Salud Mental Forum, y Hospital General Gregorio Marañón). Durante mis años de investigación, he publicado más de 30 artículos científicos en revistas indexadas y liderado proyectos competitivos financiados por el Instituto de Salud Carlos III y la European Comission Horizon 2020. He compaginado mi carrera investigadora con la docencia en universidades como la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, la Universitat Pompeu Fabra o la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. A lo largo de mi carrera investigadora, he organizado cursos y seminarios aplicados al campo de la neurociencia y la neuroimagen, como el International Freesurfer Course, el Curso Nacional de Statistic Parametric Mapping o el Curso de Neuroimagen Avanzada en Neurociencia Cognitiva y Psiquiatría. Por último, he participado en diversos medios de divulgación, incluyendo prensa, radio y televisión.
Tras una estancia postdoctoral en Harvard University, en 2013 obtuve una beca M-VISION Advanced (People Programme of Marie Curie Actions) para trabajar en el Laboratorio de Imagen Médica (LIM) del Hospital General Univertirario Gregorio Marañón (HGUGM) en Madrid. He concatenado esta beca con un contrato Miguel Servet Tipo I (2017-2022) del Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII). En la actualidad lidero el grupo de Neuroimagen en el LIM del HGUGM, soy Co-IP del grupo G07 del Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM) e imparto clases en el Master de Neuropsicología de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya y en el Instituto Europeo de Salud Mental Perinatal. Como investigadora principal del Grupo de Neuroimagen del HGUGM desarrollo proyectos de investigación de dirigidos al estudio de 1) las bases neuronales que subyacen a trastornos del neurodesarrollo y 2) los cambios cerebrales que tienen lugar durante el periodo de embarazo de una mujer, y su implicación en la aparición de posibles trastornos mentales postparto en la madre y trastornos del neurodesarrollo en el niño.
Selected Publications
- Carmona S, Martínez-García M, Paternina-Die M, Barba-Müller E, Wierenga L, Aleman-Gómez Y, Pretus C, Marcos-Vidal L, Beumala L, Cortizo R, Pozzobon C, Picado M, Lucco F, García-García D, Soliva JC, Tobeña A, Peper J, Crone E, Ballesteros A, Vilarroya O, Desco M & Hoekzema E.“Pregnancy and adolescence entail similar neuroanatomical adaptations: A comparative analysis of cerebral morphometric changes”. Accepted at Human Brain Mapping.
- Pretus C, Picado M, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Carmona S, Richarte V, Fauquet J, Vilarroya Ó. Just-in-time response to reward as a function of ADHD symptom severity. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2018 Sep;72(9):731-740. doi: 10.1111/pcn.12689. Epub 2018 Jul 2. PubMed PMID: 29888833.
- Barba-Müller E, Craddock S, Carmona S, Hoekzema E. Brain plasticity in pregnancy and the postpartum period: links to maternal caregiving and mental health. Arch Womens Ment Health. 2018 Jul 14. doi: 10.1007/s00737-018-0889-z. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30008085.
- Marcos-Vidal L, Martínez-García M, Pretus C, Garcia-Garcia D, Martínez K, Janssen J, Vilarroya O, Castellanos FX, Desco M, Sepulcre J, Carmona S. Local functional connectivity suggests functional immaturity in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Hum Brain Mapp. 2018 Jun;39(6):2442-2454. doi: 10.1002/hbm.24013. Epub 2018 Feb 22. PubMed PMID: 29473262.
- Pretus C, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Richarte V, Corrales M, Picado M, Carmona S, Vilarroya Ó. Time and psychostimulants: Opposing long-term structural effects in the adult ADHD brain. A longitudinal MR study. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2017 Dec;27(12):1238-1247. doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2017.10.035. Epub 2017 Nov 10. PubMed PMID: 29129558.
- Martínez K, Janssen J, Pineda-Pardo JÁ, Carmona S, Román FJ, Alemán-Gómez Y, Garcia-Garcia D, Escorial S, Quiroga MÁ, Santarnecchi E, Navas-Sánchez FJ, Desco M, Arango C, Colom R. Individual differences in the dominance of interhemispheric connections predict cognitive ability beyond sex and brain size. Neuroimage. 2017 Jul 15;155:234-244. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.04.029. Epub 2017 Apr 13. PubMed PMID: 28414185.
- Hoekzema E, Barba-Müller E, Pozzobon C, Picado M, Lucco F, García-García D, Soliva JC, Tobeña A, Desco M, Crone EA, Ballesteros A, Carmona S, Vilarroya O. Pregnancy leads to long-lasting changes in human brain structure. Nat Neurosci. 2017 Feb;20(2):287-296. doi: 10.1038/nn.4458. Epub 2016 Dec 19. PubMed PMID: 27991897.
- Colom R, Hua X, Martínez K, Burgaleta M, Román FJ, Gunter JL, Carmona S, Jaeggi SM, Thompson PM. Brain structural changes following adaptive cognitive training assessed by Tensor-Based Morphometry (TBM). Neuropsychologia. 2016 Oct;91:77-85. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.07.034. Epub 2016 Jul 28. PubMed PMID: 27477628; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5384573.
- Pretus C, Picado M, Ramos-Quiroga A, Carmona S, Richarte V, Fauquet J, Vilarroya Ó. Presence of Distractor Improves Time Estimation Performance in an Adult ADHD Sample. J Atten Disord. 2016 May 16. pii: 1087054716648776. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27185529.
- Navas-Sánchez FJ, Carmona S, Alemán-Gómez Y, Sánchez-González J, Guzmán-de-Villoria J, Franco C, Robles O, Arango C, Desco M. Cortical morphometry in frontoparietal and default mode networks in math-gifted adolescents. Hum Brain Mapp. 2016 May;37(5):1893-902. doi: 10.1002/hbm.23143. Epub 2016 Feb 25. PubMed PMID: 26917433.
- Carmona S, Hoekzema E, Castellanos FX, García-García D, Lage-Castellanos A, Van Dijk KR, Navas-Sánchez FJ, Martínez K, Desco M, Sepulcre J. Sensation-to-cognition cortical streams in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Hum Brain Mapp. 2015 Jul;36(7):2544-57. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22790. Epub 2015 Mar 28. PubMed PMID: 25821110; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4484811.
- Picado M, Carmona S, Hoekzema E, Pailhez G, Bergé D, Mané A, Fauquet J, Hilferty J, Moreno A, Cortizo R, Vilarroya O, Bulbena A. The neuroanatomical basis of panic disorder and social phobia in schizophrenia: a voxel based morphometric study. PLoS One. 2015 Mar 16;10(3):e0119847. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119847. eCollection 2015. Erratum in: PLoS One. 2015;10(4):e0126407. PubMed PMID: 25774979; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4361479.
- Mallorquí-Bagué N, Bulbena A, Roé-Vellvé N, Hoekzema E, Carmona S, Barba-Müller E, Fauquet J, Pailhez G, Vilarroya O. Emotion processing in joint hypermobility: A potential link to the neural bases of anxiety and related somatic symptoms in collagen anomalies. Eur Psychiatry. 2015 Jun;30(4):454-8. doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2015.01.004. Epub 2015 Feb 13. PubMed PMID: 25684692.
- Bergé D, Carmona S, Salgado P, Rovira M, Bulbena A, Vilarroya O. Limbic activity in antipsychotic naïve first-episode psychotic subjects during facial emotion discrimination. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2014 Jun;264(4):271-83. doi: 10.1007/s00406-013-0465-5. Epub 2013 Nov 21. PubMed PMID: 24258969.
- Olsson A, Carmona S, Downey G, Bolger N, Ochsner KN. Learning biases underlying individual differences in sensitivity to social rejection. Emotion. 2013 Aug;13(4):616-21. doi: 10.1037/a0033150. PubMed PMID: 23914767; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4067255.
- Hoekzema E, Carmona S, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Richarte Fernández V, Bosch R, Soliva JC, Rovira M, Bulbena A, Tobeña A, Casas M, Vilarroya O. An independent components and functional connectivity analysis of resting state fMRI data points to neural network dysregulation in adult ADHD. Hum Brain Mapp. 2014 Apr;35(4):1261-72. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22250. Epub 2013 Feb 18. PubMed PMID: 23417778.
- Hoekzema E, Carmona S, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Richarte Fernández V, Picado M, Bosch R, Soliva JC, Rovira M, Vives Y, Bulbena A, Tobeña A, Casas M, Vilarroya O. Laminar thickness alterations in the fronto-parietal cortical mantle of patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. PLoS One. 2012;7(12):e48286. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048286. Epub 2012 Dec 11. Erratum in: PLoS One. 2013;8(7). doi: 10.1371/annotation/7f26a4d8-ec45-4d43-a388-f2d0d4f1a76a. PubMed PMID: 23239964; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3519773.
- Hoekzema E, Carmona S, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Canals C, Moreno A, Richarte Fernández V, Picado M, Bosch R, Duñó L, Soliva JC, Rovira M, Bulbena A, Tobeña A, Casas M, Vilarroya O. Stimulant drugs trigger transient volumetric changes in the human ventral striatum. Brain Struct Funct. 2014 Jan;219(1):23-34. doi: 10.1007/s00429-012-0481-7. Epub 2012 Nov 27. PubMed PMID: 23184398.
- Carmona S, Hoekzema E, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Richarte V, Canals C, Bosch R, Rovira M, Soliva JC, Bulbena A, Tobeña A, Casas M, Vilarroya O. Response inhibition and reward anticipation in medication-naïve adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a within-subject case-control neuroimaging study. Hum Brain Mapp. 2012 Oct;33(10):2350-61. doi: 10.1002/hbm.21368. Epub 2011 Aug 8. PubMed PMID: 21826761.
- Proal E, Alvarez-Segura M, de la Iglesia-Vayá M, Martí-Bonmatí L, Castellanos FX; Spanish Resting State Network. [Functional cerebral activity in a state of rest: connectivity networks]. Rev Neurol. 2011 Mar 1;52 Suppl 1:S3-10. Spanish. PubMed PMID: 21365601; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4418791.
- Riesgo A, Pérez-Porro AR, Carmona S, Leys SP, Giribet G. Optimization of preservation and storage time of sponge tissues to obtain quality mRNA for next-generation sequencing. Mol Ecol Resour. 2012 Mar;12(2):312-22. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03097.x. Epub 2011 Dec 4. PubMed PMID: 22136287.
- Hoekzema E, Carmona S, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Barba E, Bielsa A, Tremols V, Rovira M, Soliva JC, Casas M, Bulbena A, Tobeña A, Vilarroya O. Training-induced neuroanatomical plasticity in ADHD: a tensor-based morphometric study. Hum Brain Mapp. 2011 Oct;32(10):1741-9. doi: 10.1002/hbm.21143. Epub 2011 Mar 1. PubMed PMID: 21365715.
- Bergé D, Carmona S, Rovira M, Bulbena A, Salgado P, Vilarroya O. Gray matter volume deficits and correlation with insight and negative symptoms in first-psychotic-episode subjects. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2011 Jun;123(6):431-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2010.01635.x. Epub 2010 Nov 4. PubMed PMID: 21054282.
- Soliva JC, Fauquet J, Bielsa A, Rovira M, Carmona S, Ramos-Quiroga JA, Hilferty J, Bulbena A, Casas M, Vilarroya O. Quantitative MR analysis of caudate abnormalities in pediatric ADHD: proposal for a diagnostic test. Psychiatry Res. 2010 Jun 30;182(3):238-43. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.01.013. Epub 2010 May 20. PubMed PMID: 20488672.
- Hoekzema E, Carmona S, Tremols V, Gispert JD, Guitart M, Fauquet J, Rovira M, Bielsa A, Soliva JC, Tomas X, Bulbena A, Ramos-Quiroga A, Casas M, Tobeña A, Vilarroya O. Enhanced neural activity in frontal and cerebellar circuits after cognitive training in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Hum Brain Mapp. 2010 Dec;31(12):1942-50. doi: 10.1002/hbm.20988. Epub 2010 Mar 24. PubMed PMID: 20336653.
- Soliva JC, Moreno A, Fauquet J, Bielsa A, Carmona S, Gispert JD, Rovira M, Bulbena A, Vilarroya O. Cerebellar neurometabolite abnormalities in pediatric attention/deficit hyperactivity disorder: a proton MR spectroscopic study. Neurosci Lett. 2010 Feb 5;470(1):60-4. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.12.056. Epub 2009 Dec 29. PubMed PMID: 20036717.
- Guitart-Masip M, Pascual JC, Carmona S, Hoekzema E, Bergé D, Pérez V, Soler J, Soliva JC, Rovira M, Bulbena A, Vilarroya O. Neural correlates of impaired emotional discrimination in borderline personality disorder: an fMRI study. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2009 Nov 13;33(8):1537-45. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2009.08.022. Epub 2009 Sep 11. PubMed PMID: 19748540.
- Soliva JC, Carmona S, Fauquet J, Hoekzema E, Bulbena A, Hilferty J, Vilarroya O. Neurobiological substrates of social cognition impairment in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: gathering insights from seven structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Jun;1167:212-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04604.x. PubMed PMID: 19580568.
- Carmona S, Proal E, Hoekzema EA, Gispert JD, Picado M, Moreno I, Soliva JC, Bielsa A, Rovira M, Hilferty J, Bulbena A, Casas M, Tobeña A, Vilarroya O. Ventro-striatal reductions underpin symptoms of hyperactivity and impulsivity in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Biol Psychiatry. 2009 Nov 15;66(10):972-7. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.05.013. Epub 2009 Jul 3. PubMed PMID: 19576573.
- Caseras X, Giampietro V, Lamas A, Brammer M, Vilarroya O, Carmona S, Rovira M, Torrubia R, Mataix-Cols D. The functional neuroanatomy of blood-injection-injury phobia: a comparison with spider phobics and healthy controls. Psychol Med. 2010 Jan;40(1):125-34. doi: 10.1017/S0033291709005972. Epub 2009 May 13. PubMed PMID: 19435544.
- Tremols V, Bielsa A, Soliva JC, Raheb C, Carmona S, Tomas J, Gispert JD, Rovira M, Fauquet J, Tobeña A, Bulbena A, Vilarroya O. Differential abnormalities of the head and body of the caudate nucleus in attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. Psychiatry Res. 2008 Aug 30;163(3):270-8. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.04.017. Epub 2008 Jul 24. PubMed PMID: 18656331.
- Carmona S, Bassas N, Rovira M, Gispert JD, Soliva JC, Prado M, Tomas J, Bulbena A, Vilarroya O. Pediatric OCD structural brain deficits in conflict monitoring circuits: a voxel-based morphometry study. Neurosci Lett. 2007 Jun 29;421(3):218-23. Epub 2007 Jun 2. PubMed PMID: 17573192.
- Carmona S, Vilarroya O, Bielsa A, Trèmols V, Soliva JC, Rovira M, Tomàs J, Raheb C, Gispert JD, Batlle S, Bulbena A. Global and regional gray matter reductions in ADHD: a voxel-based morphometric study. Neurosci Lett. 2005 Dec 2;389(2):88-93. PubMed PMID: 16129560.
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