Studies
Doctoral Program in Mental Health: Genetics and Environment
- Participating institutions
- General Aims
- Doctorate Structure
- Lines of Research
- Doctoral Thesis Directors
- Admission
- Contact
- Departament
- Received grants
Participating institutions
-Universitat Rovira i Virgili (coordinator)
-Universidad de Almería
General Aims of the Doctorate
The main aim of the doctorate is to produce doctors for high quality and advanced research. To this end, the general aims of the course are the following:
- To incorporate the students into a research group.
- To broaden their skills so that they can specialize in different aspects of the lines of research set out in the programme.
- To strengthen students' initiative in developing research projects with a methodology and scientific principles appropriate to their field of research.
- To foster general individual and team working abilities, participation in research projects, bibliographical database management, etc.
- To produce a doctoral thesis.
Structure of Doctorate
The formation period of the doctorate programme is linked to the following Master's degree introduced on the University (in order to the RD 1393/2007):
Mental Health: Research into Psychiatry, Neurotoxicology and Psychopharmacology
Research Lines and Directors of Doctoral Theses
Lines of Research
Courses offered at the URV
- Interactions of Prenatal Exposure to Neurotoxins and Stress: Long Term Effects
- Exposure to Neurodegenerative Metals and Processes Functional Modifications
- Exposure to Toxins and Neurogenesis
- Environmental Toxicology
- Behaviour Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Relation to Diet and Exposure to Environmental Toxins
- Cellular Neurobiology. Synaptogenesis and Plasticity in Neuronal Connections
- Study of Neurotransmission in Patients and Experimental Models of Neurological and Acute and Chronic Neuromuscular Diseases
- Assessment of Neuronal Death in Models of Neurodegeneration
- Identification of Clinical and Conductual Phenotypes in Psychiatry
- Validation, Reliability and Scaling of Psychiatric Scales
- Identification of Environmental Risk Factors in Psychotic and Affective Disorders
- Identification of Genes and Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms in Psychiatric Disorders
- Evaluation and psychological treatment of pain.
- Evaluation of environmental risks and for the human health
Courses offered outside the URV
- Neurotoxicity Mechanisms: Models in Vitro
- Molecular Target Systems of Neurodegenerative Processes caused by Plaguicides and Solvents
- Exposue to Organophosphates as a Risk Factor in Consumption of Alcohol
- Short and Long Term Effects of Exposure to Organophosophates on the Spatial Memory
- Assessment of Central and Sensorial Toxicity of Nitrites in Experimentation Animals
- Programme Induced Polydipsia as a Model of Impulsivness
- Latent Inhibition as a Model of Psychopharmocological Schizophrenia
- Identification, Characterisation and Validation of Targets for Drugs Active in the Central Nervous System
- Epidemiology of Depression
- Identification and action mechanism of aquatic toxins with implications to health
Thesis directors:
URV lecturers
Environmental Health and Toxicology Group (Group Consolidated by Catalan Government)
- José Luís Domingo Roig (DCMB)
- M.Teresa Colomina Fosch (DP)
- Paloma Vicens Calderón (DP)
- Domingo José Sánchez Cervelló (DCMB)
- Maria Luisa Albina Chicote (DCMB)
- Montserrat Belles Matu (DCMB)
- Margarita Torrente Torné (DP)
- Mercedes Gómez Arnaiz (DBB)
- Marta Schuhumacher Ansuategui (DEQ)
- Martí Nadal Lomas (DCMB)
Diet, Nutrition, Growth and Mental Health Group.
- Josefa Canals Sanz (DP)
Histology and Neurobiology Unit
- Josep Maria Tomàs Ferré (DCMB)
- Manel Santafé Martinez (DCMB)
- Maria Angel Lanuza (DCMB)
- Neus García Sancho (DCMB)
- Nicolau Antoni Ortiz (DMC)
Pharmacology Group
- Francesc Xavier Sureda Batlle (DCMB)
- Jaume Folch (DBB)
Psychiatry Research Group (GIP)
- Antonio Labad (DMC)
- Alfonso Gutiérrez (DMC)
- Elisabet Vilella (DMC)
- Lourdes Martorell (DMC)
ALGOS Group, research in pain
- Jordi Miró Martínez (Dpt. Psychology)
External Teachers at the URV
CSIC, Barcelona
- Cristina Suñol Esquirol
- Rosa Cristofol
- Coral Sanfeliu
Miguel Hernandez University Group
- José Barril Antuña (UMH)
- Eugenio Vilanova Gisbert (UMH)
University of Almería Group
- Inmaculada Cubero Talavera
- Fernando Sánchez Santed
- Francisco Nieto Escamez
- Pilar Flores Cubos
- M. Carmen Sánchez Amate
- Roberto Álvarez Gómez
- Fernadno Cañadas Pérez
- Diana Cardona Mena
- Margarita Moreno Montoya
University of Barcelona Group
- Jordi Llorens (UB)
Jordi Gol Foundation Group
- Enric Aragonès
Institute of Agroalimentary Research and Technology
- Jorge-Ottone Diogene Fadini
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Group
- Miquel Casas Brugué
Admission
- Maximum number of students: 30
- Criteria for admission and selection:
The fulfilment of the established conditions, as a requirement of admission in the 19th article and 4th addicional order of the RD 1393/2007, is necessary to be able to entry at the Doctorate Program while its research mode.
Specific criteria:
Once fulfilled the requirements of access, the organ responsible for the Program of Doctorate will study the documentation presented by the candidate students to determine if the academic specific criteria of admission bring together to the Doctorate. The favorable report of admission implies that the aspirant will have to formalize the registration in studies of Doctorate and to access to the guidance of thesis.
In the case of students who access to the research period by means of having completed at least one year of specialized training in the speciality of Health Sciencies, they must present a research work to which they have contributed outstandingly, which will be evaluated by a Comission of the doctoral programme. This Comission will judge one of the following cases:
- One research work carried out for that purpose and guided by a Professor Doctor of the URV.
- One research work presented to an International Congress.
- Two research works presented to National Congresses.
- One research work published in an indexed scientific journal.
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Dr. Mª Teresa Colomina Fosch
Department of Psychology (Faculty of Education and Psychology)
977 759 325/977 558 074
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Received grants
- Mobility grants for students within the framework of institutional strategies of Universities in doctoral training and consolidation of doctoral programs with Mention to the Excellence, 2011-12
Further information
- Regulations for doctoral programmes
- On-line pre-registration
- Administrative procedure
- Suggestions and complaints
- Economic questions
Official Postgraduate Programme: Mental Health: Genetics and Environment