{"id":162,"date":"2025-11-17T12:54:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/psychiatry2\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:54:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:54:42","slug":"list-of-research-laboratories-and-projects-of-the-psychiatry-department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/psychiatry\/research-projects-of-the-psychiatry-department\/list-of-research-laboratories-and-projects-of-the-psychiatry-department\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Research Laboratories and Projects of the Psychiatry Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Research Laboratories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laboratory of Fear and Pleasure\n<ul>\n<li>Christian Bravo Rivera, Ph.D.<br \/>\nAssistant Professor<br \/>\nDirector, Laboratory of Fear and Pleasure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Center for the Study and Treatment of Fear and Anxiety (CETMA)\n<ul>\n<li>Karen G. Mart\u00ednez-Gonz\u00e1lez, MD, MSc<br \/>\nAssociate Professor<br \/>\nChair, Psychiatry Department<br \/>\nDirector, Center for the Study and Treatment of Fear and Anxiety<br \/>\nMPI\/Director-\u202fHispanic Clinical and Translational Research Education and Career Development (HCTRECD) program (R25MD007607)<\/li>\n<li>Polaris Gonz\u00e1lez Barrios, Ph.D.<br \/>\nAssistant Professor<br \/>\nClinical Director, Center for the Study and Treatment of Fear and Anxiety<br \/>\nPI, Parent-child bonding and adverse exposures<\/li>\n<li>Sandra I. Ralat Rivera, Ph.D.<br \/>\nAssistant Professor<br \/>\nPI, Bipolar Disorder Research Program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Programa de Oportunidades para Recuperaci\u00f3n con Tratamiento Integrado (Por Ti)<br \/>\nLelis L. Nazario-Rodriguez, MD<br \/>\nMaria de Lourdes Rivera, Ph.D.<br \/>\nIris A. Matos Rivera, MSW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Example of Active Research Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Epigenetic and microbial profiles related to Hurricane Maria prenatal stressors<br \/>\nFaculty: Karen G. Martinez, Evangelia Morou (School of Dental Medicine), Carmen Bux\u00f3 (School of Dental Medicine)<\/li>\n<li>Inflammatory cytokines and neurocognitive functioning in bipolar disorder across mood episodes<br \/>\nFaculty: Sandra Ralat<\/li>\n<li>The mediating role of bonding on pandemic related stress and child behavior outcomes<br \/>\nFaculty: Polaris Gonzalez, Karen G. Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Measuring outcome and fidelity in first episode psychosis<br \/>\nFaculty: Lelis L. Nazario, Iris Matos, Maria de L. Rivera, Emily Justiniano<br \/>\nResident: Edwin Alvarez, Manuel de la Garza<\/li>\n<li>Medical students\u2019 \/Resident coping strategies and burnout.<br \/>\nFaculty: Camila Fernandez<br \/>\nResident: Frances Fuster<\/li>\n<li>Latin American Transancentry Initiative for OCD genomics (LATINO-OCD)<br \/>\nFaculty: Karen G. Martinez<br \/>\nResident: Stephanie Quetglas<\/li>\n<li>Epigenetic profiling of COVID-19 related depression in a Puerto Rican population<br \/>\nFaculty: Karen G. Martinez (UPR); Janitza Montalvo (Yale); Paola Giusti (UF-Gainesville)<\/li>\n<li>Clinical practice of esketamine<br \/>\nFaculty: Karen G. Martinez<br \/>\nResident: Paulina Rullan<\/li>\n<li>Trajectory of opioid use disorder\/cannabis use disorder<br \/>\nFaculty: Karen G. Martinez<br \/>\nResident: Edicer Ramirez<\/li>\n<li>Barriers to participation in clinical trials<br \/>\nFaculty: Karen G. Martinez<br \/>\nResident: Marcos Roche<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong><u>Active <\/u><\/strong><strong>Research Laboratories [Crear sub-tab]<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/anatomyneurobiology\/dt_team\/dr-christian-bravo\/\">BravoLab<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cetma\">CETMA\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Research Laboratories: Laboratory of Fear and Pleasure Christian Bravo Rivera, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Director, Laboratory of Fear and Pleasure Center for the Study and Treatment of Fear and Anxiety (CETMA) Karen G. Mart\u00ednez-Gonz\u00e1lez, MD, MSc Associate Professor Chair, Psychiatry Department Director, Center for the Study and Treatment of Fear and Anxiety MPI\/Director-\u202fHispanic Clinical and Translational&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":158,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/md.rcm.upr.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}