Research Interest: Bipolar Disorders, Mood Disorders, Biological Markers, Psychopharmacology, Neurocognition.

Research Interest: Alcohol Use Disorder, Affective Disorders in Gastrointestinal Diseases.

Research Interest: Prevention, health promotion, addictive behaviors, epidemiology, childhood anxiety disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Research Interest: Menopause, climacteric, Sleep, menopausal depression, pregnancy, hormone replacement therapy.

Research Interest: Major depression, bipolar disease, neuroimmunology, cytokines, biomarkers, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, neurotrophic factors, immunosenescence, early-life stress, cognition.

Research Interest: Depression, malnutrition, pregnant women, postpartum, growth, micronutrients.

Research Interest: Psychopharmacology particularly pre-clinical and clinical research in stress, anxiety and depression.

Research Interest: Etiopathogenesis and treatment of affective disorders ,Emotion/cognition-coupling, Electrophysiology (event-related brain potential) affective and cognitive processes, Use of anticonvulsants in affective disorders ,Borna disease infection infection and immune functions. in depression 

Research Interest: Depression, anxiety, mental adjustment to cancer, pharmacogenetic, stress, stressful life events, pharmacology, antidepressants, mindfulness, meditation.

Research Interest: Eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating, transcultural psychiatry, acculturation, maternity blues, postpartum depression. 

Research Interest: 1. Ethnopharmacological survey,3. Chemical modification,antinociceptive, antiulcer, antidepressant, hypotensive, antihypertensive, vasorelaxant and anxiolytic effects.

Research Interest: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Depression; Anxiety; Panic; Peritraumatic reaction; Heart rate variability; autonomic nervous system; HPA-axis; neuropsychoendocrinology; neuroimmunology; neurophysiology; Stress; Trauma; neuropsychopharmacology; SSRI; psychopathology.

Research Interest: Neuroimmunology, Infectious disease of the Central Nervous System, Neuroscience.

Doctor in medicine and surgery and master's degree in Hebeatría, degrees obtained at the National University of Loja, (Loja-Ecudor) student of the Doctorate in Morphological Sciences at the University of La Frontera (Temuco-Chile).

 •           Professor at the National University of Loja in pre- and post-graduate studies, experience as Director of the Medicine degree. Professor at the Private Technical University of Loja in the career of medicine and the specialty of family and community medicine, I was Director of the Department of Health Sciences, currently a full professor of the medicine career.

Research Interest: Morphosciences, Mental health, Tenager