The Saint John of God Mental Health Research Group in Barcelona

The group of Sant Joan de Deu-Serveis de Saint Mental is one of the 26 groups that belong to the CIBERSAM, The group is located in Sant Joan de Deu-Serveis de Salut Mental and Hospital Sant Joan de Due. We focus our research in two areas: the study of the schizophrenia and severe mental disorders and the epidemiology and social consequences of mental disorders. For example, the group has projects on the cause of patients with a first psychotic episode using neuroimage to understand the mechanism of social cognition, or several clinical trials for treatment resistant schizophrenia. The group has it bank of donor neurological tissue. The bank has been recognized as a platform inside the CIBERSAM and is fully operative. The materials of the bank one used for own research projects as one directed towards understanding the molecular mechanisms altered in psychiatric disorders that control dendritic development. The Group has leaded the Spanish study of the ESEMED project part of the WHO World Mental Health Surveys initiative. The Group has carried Out Studies Oil the treatment of depressive disorders in primary care, analyzing the results of the pharmacological treatments in naturalistic conditions. These studies have been funded by the Catalan Health Technology Assessment Agency and the ETES (FIS). In this line, a Multicenter study for resistant depression has been proposed by the REM-TAP partners and approved to the last FIS call on independent clinical trials research.