Prof. Alberto Fernández-Teruel

University of Barcelona, Spain

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

1998  Aujtonmous University of Barcelona

1998  Autonomous University of Barcelona

1998  University of Santiago de Compostela

1996  Autonomous University of Barcelona

Publications (Selected)

1. Río-Álamos, C., Serra, M. P., Sanna, F., Piludu, M. A., Boi, M., Cañete, T., ... & Quartu, M. (2025). Neonatal Handling Positively Modulates Anxiety, Sensorimotor Gating, Working Memory, and Cortico-Hippocampal Neuroplastic Adaptations in Two Genetically Selected Rat Strains Differing in Emotional and Cognitive Traits. Brain sciences, 15(8), 776.
2. Peralta-Vallejo, N., Cañete, T., Sampedro-Viana, D., Güell-Falgueras, P., Río-Álamos, C., Oliveras, I., ... & Fernández-Teruel, A. (2025). Neonatal handling enhances behavioural and attentional domains, and frontocortical synaptic maturation in rat models of schizophrenia-like behaviour and anxiety-related responses. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 139, 111364.
3. Serra, M. P., Boi, M., Lai, Y., Trucas, M., Fernández-Teruel, A., Corda, M. G., ... & Quartu, M. (2024). Acute stress induces different changes on the expression of CB1 receptors in the hippocampus of two lines of male rats differing in their response to stressors. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 245, 173901.
4. Sampedro-Viana, D., Cañete, T., Ancil-Gascón, P., Cisci, S., Tobeña, A., & Fernández-Teruel, A. (2024). Contrasting Effects of Oxytocin on MK801-Induced Social and Non-Social Behavior Impairment and Hyperactivity in a Genetic Rat Model of Schizophrenia-Linked Features. Brain sciences, 14(9), 920.
5. Peralta-Vallejo, N., Güell-Falgueras, P., Cañete, T., Sampedro-Viana, D., Río-Álamos, C., Oliveras, I., ... & Fernández-Teruel, A. (2024). Schizophrenia-relevant social, attentional and cognitive traits in female RHA vs. RLA rats: Effects of neonatal handling. Behavioural Brain Research, 459, 114762.
6. Fernández-Teruel, A., Cañete, T., Sampedro-Viana, D., Oliveras, I., Torrubia, R., & Tobena, A. (2023). Contribution of the Roman rat lines/strains to personality neuroscience: neurobehavioral modeling of internalizing/externalizing psychopathologies. Personality Neuroscience, 6, e8.
7. Cui, L., Yang, B., Xiao, S., Gao, J., Baud, A., Graham, D., ... & Huang, L. (2023). Dominance is common in mammals and is associated with trans-acting gene expression and alternative splicing. Genome Biology, 24(1), 215.
8. Fernández-Teruel, A. (2023). From Phenomes to Genes: Phenotype-based Strategies in Rodents for Research on the Neurobiological and Genetic Bases of Psychiatric-relevant Traits. Current neuropharmacology, 21(9), 1836.
9. Sampedro-Viana, D., Cañete, T., Mourelo, L., Oliveras, I., Peralta-Vallejo, N., Tobeña, A., & Fernández-Teruel, A. (2023). Low prepulse inhibition predicts lower social interaction, impaired spatial working memory, reference memory and cognitive flexibility in genetically heterogeneous rats. Physiology & Behavior, 271, 114355.
10. Sampedro-Viana, D., Cañete, T., Sanna, F., Oliveras, I., Castillo-Ruiz, M. D. M., Corda, M. G., ... & Fernández-Teruel, A. (2023). c-Fos expression after neonatal handling in social brain regions: Distinctive profile of RHA-rat schizophrenia model on a social preference test. Behavioural Brain Research, 453, 114625.
11. Sampedro-Viana, D., Cañete, T., Sanna, F., Oliveras, I., Lavín, V., Torrecilla, P., ... & Fernández-Teruel, A. (2023). Atypical antipsychotics attenuate MK801-induced social withdrawal and hyperlocomotion in the RHA rat model of schizophrenia-relevant features. Psychopharmacology, 240(9), 1931-1945.
12. Fernández-Teruel, A. (2023). From Phenomes to Genes: Phenotype-based Strategies in Rodents for Research on the Neurobiological and Genetic Bases of Psychiatric-relevant Traits. Current neuropharmacology, 21(9), 1836.
13. Serra, M. P., Sanna, F., Boi, M., Trucas, M., Fernández-Teruel, A., Corda, M. G., ... & Quartu, M. (2023). Effects of tail pinch on BDNF and trkB expression in the Hippocampus of Roman low-(RLA) and high-avoidance (RHA) rats. International journal of molecular sciences, 24(11), 9498.

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