Prof. Alberto Fernández-Teruel is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry & Forensic Medicine (Medical Psychology Unit) of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Director of the Animal Research Laboratory of this Unit (“Animal and Human models of mental disorders” research group) since 2004. He received his PhD from UAB in 1989, and developed pre- and postdoctoral work at the University of Cagliari (Italy) and the ETH-Zentrum (Zürich, Switzerland) and the University of Cagliari, where he has also been Visiting Professor/Scientist. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles. Part of his research focuses on neurogenetics, quantitative genetics and neurobiology of anxiety, schizophrenia-relevant models, and the impact of early experience in these animal models.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- 1.Fernández-Teruel A., McNaughton N. Post-encounter freezing during approach-avoidance conflict: the role of the hippocampus. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2023 doi: 10.1038/s41583-023-00703-y. [Epub ahead of Print] [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 2.Fernández-Teruel A., Tobeña A. Revisiting the role of anxiety in the initial acquisition of two-way active avoidance: pharmacological, behavioural and neuroanatomical convergence. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 2020;118:739–758. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.08.014. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 3.Fernández-Teruel A., Oliveras I., Cañete T., Rio-Álamos C., Tapias-Espinosa C., Sampedro-Viana D., Sánchez-González A., Sanna F., Torrubia R., González-Maeso J., Driscoll P., Morón I., Torres C., Aznar S., Tobeña A., Corda M.G., Giorgi O. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 2021;131:597–617. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.042. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 4.Oliveras I., Soria-Ruiz O.J., Sampedro-Viana D., Cañete T., Tobeña A., Fernández-Teruel A. Social preference in Roman rats: Age and sex variations relevance for modeling negative schizophrenia-like features. Physiol. Behav. 2022;247:113722. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2022.113722. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 5.Oliveras I., Soria-Ruiz O.J., Sampedro-Viana D., Cañete T., Río-Álamos C., Tobeña A., Fernández-Teruel A. Different maturation patterns for sensorimotor gating and startle habituation deficits in male and female RHA vs. RLA rats. Behav. Brain Res. 2022;434:114021. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2022.114021. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 6.Sánchez-González A., Oliveras I., Río-Álamos C., Piludu M.A., Gerbolés C., Tapias-Espinosa C., Tobeña A., Aznar S., Fernández-Teruel A. Dissociation between schizophrenia-relevant behavioral profiles and volumetric brain measures after long-lasting social isolation in Roman rats. Neurosci. Res. 2020;155:43–55. doi: 10.1016/j.neures.2019.07.002. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
- 7.Río-Álamos C., Gerbolés C., Tapias-Espinosa C., Sampedro-Viana D., Oliveras I., Sánchez-González A., Cañete T. Blázquez.G., Del Mar, López, M., Baldellou, C., Otaegui, P.J., Tobeña, A., Fernández-Teruel, A. Conservation of phenotypes in the Roman high- and low-avoidance rat strains after embryo transfer. Behav. Genet. 2017;47(5):537–551. doi: 10.1007/s10519-017-9854-2. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]