Eduard Parellada
Head of the Schizophrenia Unit PsychiatristResearch group
- Schizophrenia Group leader (R4)
About me
Eduard Parellada is head of the Barcelona Clínic Schizophrenia Unit of the Hospital Clínic and Senior Consultant of the Psychiatry Service. He has a doctorate in Medicine (University of Barcelona, UB) and a Master's in Clinical Sciences (University of Montreal). He has developed his clinical, teaching and translational research activity on schizophrenia, as a researcher at IDIBAPS and CIBERSAM. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine and AQU-accredited Full Professor. He has led the current creation of the Basic and Translational Research Laboratory in Schizophrenia
Featured publications
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Effects of the PAM of mGluR2, JNJ-46356479, on brain apoptotic protein levels in a mouse model of schizophrenia
Authors:Reference: Progress In Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 2024. -
Early treatment with JNJ-46356479, a mGluR2 modulator, improves behavioral and neuropathological deficits in a postnatal ketamine mouse model of schizophrenia
Authors:Reference: Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 2023. -
Systematic Review of the Therapeutic Role of Apoptotic Inhibitors in Neurodegeneration and Their Potential Use in Schizophrenia
Authors:Reference: Antioxidants 2022. -
Glutamate and microglia activation as a driver of dendritic apoptosis: a core pathophysiological mechanism to understand schizophrenia
Authors:Reference: Translational Psychiatry 2021. -
Microarray gene-expression study in fibroblast and lymphoblastoid cell lines from antipsychotic-naïve first-episode schizophrenia patients
Authors:Reference: Journal Of Psychiatric Research 2017. -
Apoptotic markers in cultured fibroblasts correlate with brain metabolites and regional brain volume in antipsychotic-naive first-episode schizophrenia and healthy controls
Authors:Reference: Translational Psychiatry 2015. -
Neurotoxic/neuroprotective activity of haloperidol, risperidone and paliperidone in neuroblastoma cells
Authors:Reference: Progress In Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 2012. -
A 4-year dopamine transporter (DAT) imaging study in neuroleptic-naive first episode schizophrenia patients
Authors:Reference: Psychiatry Research-Neuroimaging 2011. -
Differential brain glucose metabolic patterns in antipsychotic-naive first-episode schizophrenia with and without auditory verbal hallucinations
Authors:Reference: Journal Of Psychiatry & Neuroscience 2011. -
The resting and activation issue of hypofrontality: a single photon emission computed tomography study in neuroleptic-naive and neuroleptic-free schizophrenic female patients
Authors:Reference: Biological Psychiatry 1998.
Featured Projects
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Marcadores glutamatérgicos y respuesta antipsicótica inicial en pacientes con primer episodio psicótico (PEP) y en un modelo animal de esquizofrenia
Principal investigator: Eduard Parellada Rodon, Patricia Gassó AstorgaFunder: Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Entidad de origen); Instituto de Salud Carlos IIICode: PI21/00552Duration: 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2024 -
Estudio convergente en modelo celular, animal y humano del efecto y mecanismos de acción de la clozapina e inhibidores de glutamato en los síntomas negativos-cognitivos de la esquizofrenia
Principal investigator: Eduard Parellada Rodon, Patricia Gassó AstorgaFunder: Institut d`Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Sede o evento); Instituto de Salud Carlos IIICode: PI18/01005Duration: 01/01/2019 - 30/06/2023 -
Cellular, molecular, genetic and cognitive-behavioral characterization of the antiapoptotic effect of clozapine and glutamate inhibitors in a postnatal ketamine animal model of schizophrenia
Principal investigator: Eduard Parellada RodonFunder: Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (Entidad de origen); Fundació de Recerca Clínic Barcelona-Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i SunyerCode: FCRB_PB2_2018Duration: 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2022 -
Apoptosis y cambios estructurales progresivos en pacientes con un primer episodio de esquizofrenia: estudio longitudinal y multimodal de neuroimagen y biología molecular.
Principal investigator: Eduard Parellada RodonFunder: Instituto de Salud Carlos IIICode: PI080055.Duration: 01/01/2009 - 31/12/2011 -
Neuroanatomía funcional de las alucinaciones auditivas en la esquizofrenia: estudio multidisciplinar con PET-F18-FDG en el episodio psicótico agudo, durante la remisión y durante la estimulación acústica
Principal investigator: Eduard Parellada RodonFunder: Universitat de Barcelona (Sede o evento); Fundació La Marató de TV3Code: 012410Duration: 01/01/2002 - 31/12/2003