Prof. Eduard Vieta

Eduard Vieta is Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Hospital Clinic, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Over the past 7 years, Dr. Vieta has also served as Scientific Director of the Spanish Research Network on Mental Health (CIBERSAM). He has received the Aristotle award (2005), the Mogens Schou award (2007), the Strategic Research award of the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry (2009), the Official College of Physicians award to Professional Excellence (2011), the Colvin Price on Outstanding Achievement in Mood Disorders Research by the Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation (2012), the Clinical Neuroscience Lilly award by the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP 2014), the Simon Bolivar Award (American Psychiatric Association 2017) the Research Price of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP, 2017), the Trueta Prize (2021), the University of Barcelona award on scientific dissemination and humanities (2022), the Maimonides award from the University of Cordoba (2023) and the Kupfer-Frank Prize from the International Society of Bipolar Disorders (2024).. Moreover, he has been named best psychiatrist in Spain (Monitor sanitario, El Español), Admirable (Diario Médico), honorary member of the Spanish Society of Biological Psychiatry, Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Valencia, and member of the Spanish Brain Council and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia. He has authored more than 1400 original articles, 500 book chapters and 50 books. His current h index is 172 and has over 120.000 citations (Google Scholar), which makes him the most cited scientist worldwide in the field of bipolar disorder over the last 9 years and one of the world’s most influential scientific minds, according to Clarivate Analytics ranking (Highly Cited). His papers have over one million downloads. Furthermore, he is Editor-in-Chief of European Neuropsychopharmacology, has served as invited professor at McLean Hospital and Harvard University, and as neuroscience scientific advisor to the European Presidency.

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Mental disorders emerge as a confluence of genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors, and their phenotypical expression is heavily influences by cultural factors. An example is anorexia, a condition with a strong genetic and neurobiological background but which incidence has been growing as the standards of beauty have evolved into thinner and underweight models. In the XXI century, Healthcare and mortality have improved significantly in most parts of the World, but progress has introduced changes in lifestyle that have carried some side-effects and newer morbidities. Life expectation is longer, but we are witnessing an epidemic of Disorders related to modernity. For example, at this point there is more people with overweight and obesity than people subject to famine and starvation, which was the rule for ages. Social and technological progress has carried obvious benefits but also deeply concerning downsides, including growing figures of diabetes, hypertension, myopia, allergies, autoimmune conditions, asthma and respiratory diseases related to pollution, and mental disorders such as depression, Anxiety, eating Disorders, self-harm, suicidality, and addictions. Particularly concerning are the problems related to social media and smartphone use by youth. This talk will revise those issues and should serve as an introduction to the topics that Will be covered during this international congress on controversies in Psychiatry.

• Giner-Murillo, M., Atienza-Carbonell, B., Cervera-Martínez, J., et al. (2021). Lifestyle in undergraduate students and demographically matched controls during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 8133. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18158133.
• Vieta, E. (2023). Tough times never last too long: the future of psychopharmacology. World Psychiatry, 22(1), 84–85. doi: 10.1002/wps.21066.
• Vieta, E. (2015). La medicina personalizada aplicada a la salud mental: la psiquiatría de precisión. Revista de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental. doi: 10.1016/j.rpsm.2015.03.003.