Maria Elena Huerta Ramos
Investigador colaborador
Elena Huerta, graduated in Psychology in 2003 from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She completed the Master's Degree in Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology at the end of 2006. She has a PhD in Neuropsychology from the UAB since 2015.
She did a predoctoral stay at Monash University (Melbourne) to study the effects of estrogens on women with schizophrenia.
She joined the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu (PSSJD) in 2007 and has been linked to the Research Unit since 2008. She has participated in various clinical trials and projects that incorporate new technologies in mental health. Currently, leading several projects on facial recognition of emotions and on modifying the ability to decide in people with mental illness.
Since 2017, she is a collaborating professor of the Neuropsychology Master of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, teacher of the subject of child neuropsychology and director of the Master's Thesis (TFM).
Since 2018 linked to the Community Rehabilitation Service (SRC) of Numancia of the PSSJD conducting evaluation and treatment of people linked to the service and since 2019 Neuropsychology interconsultant of the Baix Llobregat and CSMA of Cornellà de Llobregat.
Last Publications
- Marcó-García S, Ribas-Muñoz N, Guilera G, Balsells S and Huerta-Ramos ME RECAPACITA PROJECT: Impact of the New York Convention on capacity modification judgments in persons with severe mental disorders: A comparative study using mixed methodology MEDICINE SCIENCE AND THE LAW . : .
- Domínguez M, Sánchez-Balcells S, Vila R, Bergadà-Sánchez E, Vilaplana M, Ochoa S, Huerta-Ramos ME, del Cacho N, Usall J, Peláez MT and Coromina M Perspective of patients with first-episode psychosis, their relatives, and mental health professionals on the design and usability of an app in clinical practice EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY . : .
- Marcó-García S, Guilera-Ferrer G, Ferrer-Quintero M, Ochoa S, Escuder G, Martínez-Mondejar A, Montalbán-Roca V, del Cacho N, Rubio E, ANA ESCANILLA CASAL, Martínez-Zambrano F, Balsells S and Huerta-Ramos ME The RECAPACITA project: Description of the clinical, neuropsychological and functional profile of a sample of people with severe mental disorder and legal capacity modification in Spain INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PSYCHIATRY . 88: 101874-101874.
Projects
- Project name:
- SGR 2022-2024_Grup de Recerca en Etiopatogènia i Tractament dels Trastorns Mentals Greus (MERITT)
- Leader
- Judith Usall i Rodié
- Funding entities:
- Agaur - Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
- Code
- 2021 SGR 01380
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2022 - 2025
- Project name:
- Impact of Traumatic Childhood Experiences (TCE) on cerebrocortical parameters and cognitive functioning in patients with a First-Episode Psychosis (FEP).
- Leader
- Judith Usall i Rodié
- Funding entities:
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
- Code
- PI21/00067
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2022 - 2024
- Project name:
- Les persones amb espectre autista adultes a la xarxa de salut mental: estudi de necessitats des del punt de vista dels pacients, familiars i professionals
- Leader
- Maria Elena Huerta Ramos
- Funding entities:
- Parc Sanitari de Sant Joan de Déu -Serveis de Salut Mental, Fundació Privada per a la Recerca i la Docència Sant Joan de Déu - FSJD
- Code
- 202107
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2022 - 2023