Gemma Modinos
Spanish neuropsychologist
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She earned a BSc in Psychology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, followed by an MSc in Applied Neurosciences at the University of Barcelona (Spain) while she worked as clinical neuropsychologist at Fundació ACE. She then moved to the Netherlands to do a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Groningen. She performed her post-doctoral training at the Department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London.
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Career
In 2013, Modinos received a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award to examine the relationship between functional MRI activation during emotion processing and glutamate levels in healthy people with high schizotypy. In 2016, she was awarded a King's Prize Fellowship and a Wellcome Trust & The Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, allowing her to open her own lab at IoPPN. She is a Professor of Neuroscience & Mental Health in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the IoPPN. In 2018 she founded and is since chair of the worldwide neuroimaging consortium ENIGMA Schizotypy. Modinos was elected Member of the Academia Europaea in 2024.
Top 5 publications
- Modinos et al. (2020) Association of Adverse Outcomes With Emotion Processing and Its Neural Substrate in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis. JAMA Psychiatry. 2020;77(2):190-200.
- Modinos et al. (2018) Prefrontal GABA levels, hippocampal resting perfusion and the risk of psychosis. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2018;43:2652–2659.
- Modinos et al. (2017) Corticolimbic hyper-response to emotion and glutamatergic function in people with high schizotypy: a multimodal fMRI-MRS study. Translational Psychiatry. 2017;7:e1083.
- Modinos, Paul Allen, Anthony A. Grace, Philip McGuire (2015) Translating the MAM Model of Psychosis to Humans. Trends in Neurosciences. 2015;38(3):129-138.
- Modinos, Johan Ormel, André Aleman (2010). Individual differences in dispositional mindfulness and brain activity involved in reappraisal of emotion. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 5(4);369-377.