Man

Maria Francisca Carvajal Ruiz

Associate professor

Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Santiago de Chile, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


To understand how neuropeptides of nutrition can regulate alcohol consumption. Moreover, we study how adolescent binge-like ethanol exposure alters neuropeptides systems and the effects of these changes in alcohol consumption during adulthood

Educación

  •  Psychology, UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA. España, 2002
  •  Cognitive Neuroscience, UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA. España, 2005
  •  Psychology, UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA. España, 2011

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant professor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA

    Faculty of Psychology

    Almeria, España

    2008 - 2013

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE CHILE

    Faculty of Social Sciences

    Santiago de Chile, Chile

    2013 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Thecnical staff Full Time

    University of Almeria

    Almeria, España

    2005 - 2006

Formación de Capital Humano


Actually, I am coordinator of Master in Neuroscience at Universidad Autónoma de Chile (UA). This programs are currently teaching and support more than 20 students. Also, I participe in "Select Topics in investigation" course helds in PhD program in Biomedical Science at UA.



 

Article (10)

Binge-like consumption of caloric and non-caloric palatable substances in ad libitum-fed C57BL/6J mice: Pharmacological and molecular evidence of orexin involvement

Alcaráz-Iborra, M; Carvajal F.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Valor, L.M.; Cubero I.

Article ISI SCOPUS
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH  (2014)

Effects of a single high dose of Chlorpyrifos in long-term feeding, ethano consumption and ethano preference in male Wistar rats with a previous history of continued ethanol drinking

Carvajal F.; Sanchez-Amate, M.C.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Cubero I.

Article ISI
JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES  (2014)

Polymorphism in the corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 (CRF1-R) gene plays a role in shaping the high anxious phenotype of Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring (msP) rats

Cippitelli, A.; Ayanwuyi, L.; Barbier E.; Domi, E.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Carvajal F.; Scuppa, G.; Li H.; Ubaldi, M.; Heilig, M; et al.

Article ISI
PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY  (2014)

Adolescent binge-like ethanol exposure: effects on basal and ethanol-stimulated α-MSH and AgRP immunoreactivity in the hypothalamus and the amygdala of adult rats.

Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Carvajal F.; Alcaráz-Iborra, M; Navarro M.; Thiele, T.E.; Cubero I.

Article ISI
PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR  (2013)

MC4-R signaling within the nucleus accumbens shell, but not the lateral hypothalamus, modulates ethanol palatability in rats

Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Carvajal F.; Chotro, G.; Gaztañaga, M.; Navarro M.; Thiele, T.E.; Cubero I.

Article ISI
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY  (2013)

Role of a genetic polymorphism in the corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 gene in alcohol drinking and seeking behaviors of Marchigian Sardinian alcohol-preferring rats

Ayawuyi, L.O.; Carvajal F.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Björk, E.D.; Ubaldi, M.; Heilig, M; Roberto, M; Ciccocioppo, R.; Cippitelli, A.

Article
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY  (2013)

Control of food intake by MC4-R signaling in the lateral hypothalamus, nucleus accumbens shell and ventral tegmental area: Interactions with ethanol

Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Carvajal F.; De La Torre L.; de la Fuente L.; Navarro M.; Thiele, T.E.; Cubero I.

Article ISI
BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH  (2012)

Neuropeptide Y signaling modulates the expression of ethanol-induced behavioral sensitization in mice

Hayes, D.M.; Fee, J.R.; McCown, T.J.; Breese, G.R.; Cubero I.; Carvajal F.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Navarro M.; Thiele, T.E.

Article ISI
ADDICTION BIOLOGY  (2012)

Assessment of voluntary ethanol consumption and the effects of a melanocortin (MC) receptor agonist on ethanol intake in mutant C57BL/6J mice lacking the MC-4 receptor.

Navarro M.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Carvajal F.; Lowery, E.G.; Cubero I.; Thiele, T.E.

Article ISI
ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH  (2011)

Ethanol-induced increase of agouti-related protein (AgRP) immunoreactivity in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus of C57BL/6J, but not 129/SvJ, inbred mice.

Cubero I.; Navarro M.; Carvajal F.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Thiele, T.E.

Article ISI
ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH  (2010)

Monograph (2)

Alcohol consumption among adolescents: implications for public health

Carvajal F.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Claborn, D.

Monograph
 (2014)

Interaction between exposure to neurotoxicants and drug abuse

Carvajal F.; Sanchez-Amate, M.C.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Cubero I.; Oosthuizen, J.

Monograph
 (2012)

Proyecto (1)

Consumo de alcohol en adolescentes: el papel de las melanocortinas

Carvajal F.; Lerma-Cabrera, JM; Fernández, M

Proyecto
 (2014)

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Maria Carvajal

Associate professor

Psychology

Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Santiago de Chile, Chile

1
José Lerma

Associate Professor and researcher

Department of Psychology

Universidad Autonoma de Chile

Santiago de Chile, Chile