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Natalia Ojeda
Associate profesor of Neuropsychology at University of Deusto. Head of the Department of Basic and Biological Psychology. Principal Investigator of a 21 members research team (rated by the Basque Gov-Research Dpt as Type A Excelence). Consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) for Disability and Schizophrenia.
PhD in Neuropsychology. Clinical Psychologist by Spanish Science Ministry and American Psychological Association (USA). Postdoc in Neuropsychology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Master in Research and Methods by University Autónoma of Barcelona. Elected member and Southern Europe Representative for the International Society of Neuropsychology (INS). Founder and President of the Sociedad VascoNavarra de Neuropsicología. Board member at the Spanish Federation of Neuropsychogical Societies PI in several national and international projects included NIH founded and multisite international projects. Collaborations with Johns Hopkins Med Inst, University of Harvard, Kessler Foundation, etc.
More than 100 peer review international papers, 14 books, 36 book chapters, invited reviewer for 21 international research and clinical journals.
Lecture:
The brain in a healthy and pathological brain.
In this presentation the listener will learn how to:
1. Know the basic structure of the brain and central nervous system, and the objective measurement of both the structure and the function of the Brain.
2. Become familiar with neuroscience and psychological techniques to explore; neuroimaging, neuropsychological tests, and their relationship with the cognitive processes (attention, language, learning and memory, etc.) that are essential for learning in . It also serves as an objective measurement of these processes and changes that occur before and after learning.
3. Revise how to modify the structure and brain function made by learning and which factors make this change happen, and have access to practical tools that are used to stimulate learning in real life, and to promote and optimize the performance of the brain.