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Francisco Aboitiz

Profesor

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Neurociencias cognitivas; Trastornos del desarrollo; neurociencia comparada

Educación

  •  Neurociencia, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES. Chile, 1991
  •  BIOLOGIA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 1983

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Medicina

    Santiago, Chile

    2002 - A la fecha

  •   Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Medicina

    Santiago, Chile

    1992 - 2002

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Post doctoral fellow Full Time

    University of California Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, Estados Unidos

    1991 - 1992

  •   Profesor Full Time

    Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    1992 - 2002

  •   Profesor Full Time

    Fac. Medicina P. Universidad Católia de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2002 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


MASTERS DEGREE (FINISHED)
ALEJANDRA FIGUEROA 2015
MORALES MATIAS 2014
MAURICIO BAES 2014
KARLA GUAITA 2012
RODRIGO ORTEGA 2011
XIMENA HORMAZÁBAL 2011
LILIAN TOLEDO 2011
MAGALI HERMOSILLA 2011
GONZALO RIVERA 2010
JULIO TORRES 2010

before 2010:
RICARDO OLIVARES
MAURICIO FERNANDEZ
RICARDO GARCIA
JUAN MONTIEL
ALVARO BARRERA
AMANDA NAVARRETE

DOCTORATE (FINISHED):
LEONIE KAUSEL 2018
PATRICIA SOTO 2017
ASPE MAURICIO (PB) 2016
BARBARA PALMA 2015
RODRIGO ORTEGA 2014
PAULA ROTHHAMMER 2014
PABLO BILLEKE 2012
FRANCISCO ZAMORANO 2012
JOHANNA KREITHER 2012
FELIX BACIGALUPO 2011
DANIELA HUERTA 2011
CARLOS HAMAMÉ 2011
ENZO BRUNETTI 2011
MARCELA HENRÍQUEZ 2010
PABLO GASPAR 2010
RICARDO GARCÍA 2010
VLADIMIR LOPEZ 2009
JUAN MONTIEL 2008
CONRADO BOSMAN 2008
MIGUEL CONCHA
EUGENIA DIAZ
ALEXANDER VARGAS


POST DOCS
ALEXIES DAGNINO 2002-2005
DIEGO COSMELLI 2007-2009
TOMAS OSSANDON 2011-2012
M. FRANCISCA ALONSO 2010-2011
JOSÉ ZAMORANO-ABRAMSON 2014-2015
M ELIZABETH SUTHERLAND 2015
R ORTEGA 2015-2017
IGNACIO NEGRÓN 2016-2018
RODRIGO HENRIQUEZ 2018-TO DATE


Difusión y Transferencia


DIPLOMA IN ATTENTIONAL DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS IN NEUROSCIENCE AND ATTENTIONAL DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER


Premios y Distinciones

  •   mejor investigador escuela medicina

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Chile, 2010

    Premio anual al mejor investigador de la Facula de de Medicina


 

Article (95)

The enigmatic Reissner's fiber and the origin of chordates
Frontoparietal connectivity correlates with working memory performance in multiple sclerosis
Lateral prefrontal theta oscillations reflect proactive cognitive control impairment in males with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Neural Dynamics of Improved Bimodal Attention and Working Memory in Musically Trained Children
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying working memory encoding and retrieval in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
A pupil size, eye-tracking and neuropsychological dataset from ADHD children during a cognitive task
Beta oscillations precede joint attention and correlate with mentalization in typical development and autism
Morphological evolution of the vertebrate forebrain: From mechanical to cellular processes
Origin and evolution of human speech. Emergence from a trimodal auditory, visual and vocal network
Coordinated prefrontal-hippocampal activity and navigation strategy-related prefrontal firing during spatial memory formation
Coordinated prefrontal-hippocampal activity and navigation strategy-related prefrontal firing during spatial memory formation (vol 115, pg 7123, 2018)
Homology in Amniote Brain Evolution: The Rise of Molecular Evidence
Imitation of novel conspecific and human speech sounds in the killer whale (Orcinus orca)
Sleep spindle activity in children with obstructive sleep apnea as a marker of neurocognitive performance: A pilot study
A brain for speech: A view from evolutionary neuroanatomy
Altered Cervical Vestibular-Evoked Myogenic Potential in Children with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder
Attending to the heart is associated with posterior alpha band increase and a reduction in sensitivity to concurrent visual stimuli
Contextual imitation of intransitive body actions in a Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas): A "do as other does" study
Lateral prefrontal activity as a compensatory strategy for deficits of cortical processing in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Pupil Size Tracks Attentional Performance In Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Theta and Alpha Oscillation Impairments in Autistic Spectrum Disorder Reflect Working Memory Deficit
Schizophrenia and reelin: a model based on prenatal stress to study epigenetics, brain development and behavior
A subject-independent pattern-based Brain-Computer Interface
Functional constraints in the evolution of brain circuits
Intra-Individual Response Variability Assessed by Ex-Gaussian Analysis may be a New Endophenotype for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Intratask Variability As a Correlate for DRD4 and SLC6A3 Variants: A Pilot Study in ADHD
Olfaction, navigation, and the origin of isocortex
Pallial patterning and the origin of the isocortex
Paradoxical Expectation: Oscillatory Brain Activity Reveals Social Interaction Impairment in Schizophrenia
Prenatal Stress Down-Regulates Reelin Expression by Methylation of Its Promoter and Induces Adult Behavioral Impairments in Rats
Prenatal Stress Produces Persistence of Remote Memory and Disrupts Functional Connectivity in the Hippocampal-Prefrontal Cortex Axis
Functional Cortical Network in Alpha Band Correlates with Social Bargaining
Temporal Constraints of Behavioral Inhibition: Relevance of Inter-stimulus Interval in a Go-Nogo Task
Exogenous orienting of visual-spatial attention in ADHD children
Oscillatory Brain Activity Correlates with Risk Perception and Predicts Social Decisions
Phase synchronization of delta and theta oscillations increase during the detection of relevant lexical information
Social cognition in schizophrenia: from social stimuli processing to social engagement.
Someone has to give in: theta oscillations correlate with adaptive behavior in social bargaining
Anatomy of corpus callosum in prenatally malnourished rats
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in Aymara children
DRD4 dopamine receptor alleles in Chilean students of different ethnic origin and its relation with the risk for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Gestures, vocalizations, and memory in language origins.
Variación de alelos del gen receptor de dopamina DRD4 en escolares chilenos de diferente origen étnico y su relación con riesgo de déficit atencional/hiperactividad
Neural Mechanisms of Human Perceptual Learning: Electrophysiological Evidence for a Two-Stage Process
P300 amplitude is insensitive to working memory load in schizophrenia
Riesgo de déficit atencional/hiperactividad en escolares Aymara, Rapa-Nui y de Santiago de Chile: Posible contribución de polimorfismos genéticos del sistema dopaminérgico
Risk of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in Aymara and Rapa-Nui school children. Association with dopaminergic system polymorphisms
Shifting visual attention away from fixation is specifically associated with alpha band activity over ipsilateral parietal regions
A developmental approach to homology and brain evolution
CHRONIC FLUOXETINE TREATMENT INDUCES STRUCTURAL PLASTICITY AND SELECTIVE CHANGES IN GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR SUBUNITS IN THE RAT CEREBRAL CORTEX
Densidad Neuronal en la Corteza Visual Primaria (Área 17), en Dos Especies de Octodon
Effect of the Environment on the Dendritic Morphology of the Rat Auditory Cortex
Functional differences of low- and high-frequency oscillatory dynamics during illusory border perception
Neurocognitive models for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and their consequences on the searching of endophenotypes
Neuronal density in primary visual cortex (17 visual area), in two species of octodon
The phonological loop: A key innovation in human evolution
Chronic stress induces dendritic atrophy in the rat medial geniculate nucleus: Effects on auditory conditioning
Merging of Phonological and Gestural Circuits in Early Language Evolution
Combinación de genotipos DRD4 y DAT1 constituye importante factor de riesgo en miembros de familias de Santiago de Chile con déficit atencional
Combination of DRD4 and DAT1 genotypes is an important risk factor for attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity families living in Santiago, Chile
Voluntary modulations of attention in a semantic auditory-visual matching Task: an ERP study
Efecto de la Desnutrición Oculta Prenatal Sobre la Histología del Esplenio Callosal
Evolution of the vertebrate nervous system and telencephalon
Origin of the mammalian brain
Status epilepticus induces region-specific changes in dendritic spines, dendritic length and TrkB protein content of rat brain cortex
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder involves differential cortical processing in a visual spatial attention paradigm
Chronic stress decreases the expression of sympathetic markers in the pineal gland and increases plasma melatonin concentration in rats
Chronic stress induces upregulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) rnRNA and integrin alpha 5 expression in the rat pineal gland
Genotypic interaction between DRD4 and DAT1 loci is a high risk factor for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in Chilean families
BAJO RIESGO DE DÉFICIT ATENCIONAL / HIPERACTIVIDAD EN NIÑOS AYMARÁS: IMPLICANCIAS GENÉTICAS, ANTROPOLÓGICAS Y CULTURALES
Chronic stress impairs acoustic conditioning more than visual conditioning in rats: Morphological and behavioural evidence
Human-like rodent amyloid-beta-peptide determines Alzheimer pathology in aged wild-type Octodon degu
Low risk of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in Aymara children. Genetic, anthropological, and cultural implications
Síndrome de Déficit Atencional: antecedentes neurobiológicos y cognitivos para estudiar un modelo de endofenotipo
Williams syndrome: Pediatric, neurologic, and cognitive development
AChE-rich magnopyramidal neurons have a left-right size asymmetry in Broca's area
Behavioral effects of manganese injected in the rat substantia nigra are potentiated by dicumarol, a DT-diaphorase inhibitor
DENSIDAD NEURONAL EN LA CORTEZA VISUAL PRIMARIA (ÁREA 17), DE DOS ESPECIES DE ROEDORES SILVESTRES
Effect of phychostimulants on distinct attentional parameters in attentional deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Effect of Psychostimulants on Distinct Attentional Parameters in Attentional Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Presence of DRD4/7R and DAT1/10R allele in Chilean family members with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Dendritic morphology and orientation of pyramidal cells of the neocortex in two groups of early postnatal undernourished-rehabilitated rats
Distribution of alleles of DRD4 and DAT1 genes of the dopaminergic system in the mixed Chilean population
Long distance communication in the human brain: timing constraints for inter-hemispheric synchrony and the origin of brain lateralization
The alien hand syndrome: classification of forms reported and discussion of a new condition
A new sign of callosal disconnection syndrome: Agonistic dyspraxia. A case study
An hypothesis on the early evolution of the development of the isocortex
Behavioral effects of aminochrome and dopachrome injected in the rat substantia nigra
Critical steps in the early evolution of the isocortex. Insights from developmental biology
Williams syndrome: Clinical, cytogenetic, neurophysiological and neuroanatomic features in 44 patients
"Sincronía, conciencia y el ""problema duro"" de la neurociencia"
A sex difference in the postcentral sulcus of the human brain
Dendritic structure of single hippocampal neurons according to sex and hemisphere of origin in middle-aged and elderly human subjects
Species differences and similarities in the fine structure of the mammalian corpus callosum
Cross-species and intraspecies morphometric analysis of the corpus callosum

Abstract (2)

ALPHA FREQUENCY ALTERATIONS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA DURING HIGH WORKING MEMORY LOAD CONDITIONS
Emotional Modulation of the Executive Function in Patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

BookSection (1)

Prefrontal cortex and control of behavior: Evidence from neuropsychological study In From attention to Goal-Directed Behavior. Neurodynamical, methodological and clinical trends

BookWhole (9)

Origin and evolution of human speech: Emergence from a trimodal auditory, visual and vocal network
Neocortex: Origins
Dynamics of a neuromodulator - I. The role of dopaminergic signaling in goal-directed behavior
Dynamics of a neuromodulator - II. Dopaminergic balance and cognition
Electrophysiological and genetic markers of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder: Boundary conditions for normal attentional processing and behavioral control
From attention to goal-directed behavior: Neurodynamical, methodological and clinical trends
The aberrant connectivity hypothesis in schizophrenia
The Origin of Broca's Area and Its Connections from an Ancestral Working Memory Network
A Brain for Speech. A view from evolutionary neuroanatomy

EditorialMaterial (13)

From Ecology to Brain Development: Bridging Separate Evolutionary Paradigms
Untitled
From tetrapods to primates: Conserved developmental mechanisms in diverging ecological adaptations
The mesencephalon as a source of preattentive consciousness
What is so informative about information?
Frontal and executive dysfunction is a central aspect of ADHD
How ancient is the adult swimming capacity in the lineage leading to Euchordates?
Sharpening Occam's razor: Is there need for a hand-signing stage prior to vocal communication?
FOXP2 and the language working-memory system
Prelinguistic evolution and motherese: A hypothesis on the neural substrates
Schizophrenia is a disease of general connectivity more than a specifically "social brain" network
Authors' response - An interdisciplinary approach to brain evolution: A long due debate
What determines evolutionary brain growth?

Letter (4)

Parametric increases of working memory load unveil a decreased alpha oscillatory activity in schizophrenia
Do discreteness and rivalry coexist in illusory motion reversals?
Imitation and memory in language origins
The origin of isocortical development

Review (19)

A Brain for Speech. Evolutionary Continuity in Primate and Human Auditory-Vocal Processing
Heritability and genetic comorbidity of attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity
Impaired Functional Connectivity in the Prefrontal Cortex: A Mechanism for Chronic Stress-Induced Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Development of social skills in children: neural and behavioral evidence for the elaboration of cognitive models
From imitation to meaning: circuit plasticity and the acquisition of a conventionalized semantics
Irrelevant stimulus processing in ADHD: catecholarnine dynamics and attentional networks
N400 ERPs for actions: building meaning in context
Neural progenitors, patterning and ecology in neocortical origins
Genetic and developmental homology in amniote brains. Toward conciliating radical views of brain evolution
Neurocognitive models for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and their consequences on the searching of endophenotypes Modelos neurocognitivos para el trastorno por déficit de atención/hiperactividad y sus implicaciones en el reconocimiento de endofenotipos
Molecular mechanisms underlying glutamatergic dysfunction in schizophrenia: therapeutic implications
Co-option of signaling mechanisms from neural induction to telencephalic Patterning
Origin and Evolution of the Vertebrate Telencephalon, with Special Reference to the Mammalian Neocortex
Cortical memory mechanisms and language origins
Ancestry of the mammalian preplate and its derivatives: Evolutionary relicts or embryonic adaptations?
One hundred million years of interhemispheric communication: the history of the corpus callosum
The evolutionary origin of the mammalian isocortex: Towards an integrated developmental and functional approach
Evolutionary divergence of the reptilian and the mammalian brains: considerations on connectivity and development
The inverted neurogenetic gradient of the mammalian isocortex: development and evolution
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Francisco Aboitiz

Profesor

Psychiatry

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

santiago, Chile

26
Juan Montiel

Profesor Titular

FACULTAD DE MEDICINA

UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES

Santiago, Chile

18
Francisco Zamorano

Profesor Asociado

Actividad Física y Salud

Universidad San Sebastián

Santiago, Chile

13
Pablo Billeke

Investigador Docences

Universidad del Desarrollo

Santiago, Chile

9
Inge Wyneken

Full Professor

Medicina

UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES

Santiago, Chile

7
Diego Cosmelli

Profesor Asociado y Sub-director de Investigación y Postgrado

Escuela de Psicología

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

7
sergio ruiz

Co-Director

Psychiatry

Laboratory for Brain-Machine Interfaces and Neuromodulation

santiago, Chile

7
Alexies Dagnino

Full Professor

Physiology

UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO

Valparaíso, Chile

5
Enzo Brunetti

Profesor asistente

Neurociencias

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHIILE

Santiago, Chile

5
Pablo Gaspar

Profesor Asistente

Psiquiatria Norte

Universidad de Chile

santiago, Chile

4
Daniel Rojas

Profesor

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago, Chile

3
Mauricio Moraga

Profesor Asociado

Programa de Genética Humana

FACULTAD DE MEDICINA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

SANTIAGO, Chile

3
Patricia Soto

Investigadora

Centro de Investigación en Complejidad Social

Universidad del Desarrollo

Santiago, Chile

3
Nelson Espinosa

Investigador Adjunto

Psiquiatría

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago de Chile, Chile

3
Tomás Ossandón

Associate Professor

Medical School, Department of Psychiatry

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

3
Pablo Fuentealba

Assistant Professor

Psychiatry

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

3
Miguel Concha

Full Professor

Anatomy and Developmental Biology

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

3
Nelson Ortega

Program Manager

Psicología

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

3
Juan Orellana

Associate Professor

Departamento de Neurología

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

2
Ariel Lara

Profesor Asistente

College UC

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Marco Fuenzalida

Full Professor

Physiology

UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO

Valparaíso, Chile

2
Aldo Villalon

Director Académico/Profesor Asistente

Ciencias de la Salud

Universidad de Aysén

Coyhaique, Chile

2
Nicolas Crossley

Assistant Professor

Psiquiatría

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Gonzalo Terreros

Assistant Professor

Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud

Universidad de O'Higgins

Rancagua, Chile

2
Teresa Aravena

Profesor asistente

Medicina

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

santiago, Chile

1
Paul Delano

Associate Professor

1.Otolaryngology/2. Physiology and Biophysics

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Carlos Rodriguez

Director CICS y Profesor Titular

Facultad de Gobierno

UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO

Santiago, Chile

1
Agustin Ibañez

DIRECTOR

INCYT

CABA, Argentina

1
Cristian Tejos

Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Ranganatha Sitaram

Associate Professor and Director of Laboratory of Brain-Machine Interfaces and Neuromodulation

Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, and Department of Psychiatry

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Luis Villarroel

Profesor Asociado

Salud Publica

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE, DEPARTAMENTO DE SALUD PÚBLICA

Santiago, Chile

1
Nibaldo Inestrosa

Full Professor

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Christian Gonzalez

Full Professor

Biology

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Martín Montecino

Director

Institute of Biomedical Sciences

UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

Santiago, Chile

1
Rodrigo Henríquez

Postdoctoral Researcher

Psychiatry

The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Waldo Cerpa

Profesor Asociado

Biología Celular y Molecular

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Ariel Reyes

Director de Departamento

Ciencias Biológicas

UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO

Santiago, Chile

1
Andrea Slachevsky

Associate Professor

ICBM

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Chile, Chile

1
Mauricio Sandoval

Lab Manager

Facultad de Medicina

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Alexander Vargas

Profesor Asociado

Biología

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Agustin Ibanez

Profesor Titular

Psicologia

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

1
Marcelo Chacon

Postdoc

Neurology

UTHealth

Houston, Estados Unidos

1
Johanna Kreither

Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies University of Talca

Psychology

Universidad de Talca

Talca, Chile

1
Elias Utreras

Profesor Asistente

Biologia

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Hernán Silva

CLÍNICA PSIQUIÁTRICA UNIVERSITARIA - UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Rodrigo Sandoval

Director de departamento

Ciencias Biomédicas

UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL NORTE

Coquimbo, Chile

1
Jorge Mpodozis

Profesor Titular

DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Sergio Negrón

Assistant profesor

Facultad de Ciencias

Universidad de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Ricardo Rosas

Full Professor

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Francisco Bozinovic

Full professor

Ecology

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Rebeca Aldunate

Profesor Titular

Ciencias

UNIVERSIDAD SANTO TOMÁS

Santiago, Chile

1
Leonie Kausel

Docente e investigadora

Facultad de Psicología

Universidad Diego Portales

Santiago, Chile

1
Cristobal Moenne

Profesor Asistente

Ciencias de la Salud

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Maëva Michon

Post-Doctorando

Departamento de Psiquiatría

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Marcela Peña

Profesor titular

Psicologia

PONTIFICIA UNIVERESIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Genevieve Merabachvili

Profesor Asistente

salud

Universidad Santo Tomás

Santiago, Chile

1
estibaliz ampuero

Profesor Asistente

Facultad de Química y Biología

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Luis Damiani

Profesor Asistente

Kinesiología

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile