Marta Casales, MSc

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Currently I am a project manager under the ERC project “RememberEx”. My role in this grant is to take care of the administrative part of the research, management of the laboratory and data protection.

I studied Psychology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, focusing my research on psychopharmacology of mentail diseases and cognitive impairment. Afterwards, I did my MSc in Neuropsychology at Maastricht University, in the Netherlands, were I focused my research on cognitive impairment related to stress. After I graduated, I worked at Maastricht University and Cambridge University as a research assistant for several years in many different projects, gaining experience in data protection, analysis, and management. I also worked on project designs. All this experience have gave me the opportunity to get insight on all the administrative work that has to be done in a lab to excel on research.

Education

MSc Neuropsychology- Maastricht Universiteit (UM), Maastricht

• Thesis: How does stress modulate working memory-related catecholamine activity in prefrontal cortex? Mondriaan Hospital, UM

BSc Psychology- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid

• Thesis: Cognitive processes, nicotinic receptors and new psychopharmacological approaches for the treatment of schizophrenia Instituto Teófilo Hernando, Faculty of Medicine, UAM).
• ERASMUS grant: Universiteit van Amsterdam

Publications

1.  Noradrenaline transporter blockade increases fronto-parietal functional connectivity relevant for working memory. Hernaus, D., Offermann, J., Casales, M., van Amelsvoort, T. 2017. Journal:  European Neuropsychopharmacology.

2. Neuroendocrine stress responses are predictive of catecholamine-dependent working memory- related dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activity. Hernaus, D., et al. 2017. Journal: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.