Amanda Rodríguez

Senior psychiatrist at Mental Health Department HUVH. Principal Investigator, Group of Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addictions, Vall d’Hebron Research Institut (VHIR). CIBERSAM researcher (G27). Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Forensic Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Author of the book ‘Siente lo que Comes’, Ed. Diana, Grupo Planeta, 2022.

Her clinical interests comprise brain-gut axis disorders, psychosomatics and mood disorders (depression, treatment resistant depression) with medical comorbidity. To tackle research questions regarding the brain-gut axis mechanisms (immunity, inflammation, microbiome..) involved on this comorbidity, she has been involved as a researcher in competitive government and international grants: “Neurophysiology and digestive neurophysiology”(SAF 2013-43677-R and SAF2016-76648-R, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), H2020- SC1-2019 DISCOvERIE project   to study the role of the brain-gut axis in the comorbidity between depression/anxiety and non-mental diseases related to pain (eg. fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, A Phase III, Randomized, Active Comparator-controlled, Clinical Trial to Study the Efficacy and Safety of the INtegral Cognitive REMediation program (INCREM) in patients with Depression (Marató TV3 202227-30-31-32-33) and in the project: “Indoleamine 2, 3 – dioxygenase (IDO) and kynurenines as potential biomarkers predictive of the development of major depression in patients with neuropathic pain“  among others.