Xavier Caldú Ferrús
Investigador
Research group
Research line:
Neuropsychology-neurodevelopmental disorders; Neuropsychology-cerebral palsy; Neuropsychology-obesity
Dr. Xavier Caldú Ferrús got a degree in psychology from the University of Barcelona in 2002 and obtained his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Barcelona in 2007.
Between 2007 and 2009 he held a postdoctoral stay at the Neuroscience Cognitive Center of Lyon where he studied the mechanisms involved in the processing of rewards and decision-making.
Since 2017 he has been an associate professor at the University of Barcelona.
Professional network profiles
Last Publications
- Prunell-Castañé A, Beyer F, Witte V, Sánchez Garre C, Hernán I, Caldú X, Jurado MA and Garolera M From the reward network to whole-brain metrics: structural connectivity in adolescents and young adults according to body mass index and genetic risk of obesity INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY . 48(4): 567-574.
- García-Galant M, Blasco M, Laporta O, Berenguer-González A, Moral-Salicrú P, Ballester J, Caldú X, Miralbell J, Xenia Alonso, Medina J, Elsa Povedano Bulló, Leiva D, Boyd RN and Pueyo R A randomized controlled trial of a home-based computerized executive function intervention for children with cerebral palsy EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS . 182(10): 4351-4363.
- Caldú X, Prats-Soteras X, García-García I, Prunell-Castañé A, Sánchez-Garre C, Cano N, Tor E, Sender-Palacios MJ, Ottino-González J, Garolera M and Jurado MA Body mass index, systemic inflammation and cognitive performance in adolescents: A cross-sectional study* PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY . 156: 106298-106298.