Man

Maria Isabel Behrens Pellegrino

Profesor Titular

Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Biological Mechanisms relating the inverse association between Alzheimer Dementia and cancer. Cell death and cell proliferation. Immune system and neurodegeneration

Educación

  •  Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas, mención Biología Celular, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1986
  •  Post doc on Central Nervous System Injury, Postdoctoral fellow. Estados Unidos, 1995
  •  Geriatric Dementia, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS. Chile, 2004
  •  Médico Cirujano, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1978

Experiencia Académica

  •   Neurologist Part Time

    Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile

    Medicina

    Santiago, Chile

    2001 - A la fecha

  •   Researcher Full Time

    Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago

    Santiago, Chile

    1986 - 1993

  •   Neuróloga Part Time

    Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2000 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   MD PhD Full Professor Neurology Part Time

    Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2001 - A la fecha

  •   MD PhD, Full Professor researcher Part Time

    Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Neurociencias

    Santiago, Chile

    2013 - A la fecha

  •   Neuróloga Part Time

    Clínica Alemana

    Santiago, Chile

    2000 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Dirección de Tesis
a. Magíster en Ciencias Biológicas Mención Neurociencias y Tratornos de la conducta (Neurociencias)

2010-2013 finalizada: Título Tesis: “Validación del instrumento Montreal Cognitive Assessment, versión en español (mMoCA-S) en adultos mayores de Santiago de Chile” Estudiante: Alex Araneda Magíster Neurociencias Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Chile Sede Norte.

2010-2013. finalizada: Astrid Schmied. Magíster Neurociencias Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Chile Sede Norte.Título Tesis: “Caracterización del Tipo de Muerte Celular de Linfocitos de Pacientes con Enfermedad de Alzheimer y Cáncer de Piel”

Co-directora de tesis:
2008-2010 finalizada: Teresa Parrao Magíster Neurociencias Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Chile Sede Norte. En codirección con Dra Marilú Aylwin. Título Tesis: “Sensibilidad olfatoria en pacientes con Parkinson”.

2010- en curso: Sandra Echeverry Magíster Neurociencias Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Chile Sede Norte. En codirección con Dra Marilú Aylwin. Título Tesis: “Prueba de tamizaje: memoria, orientacion y fluidez (mefo), como herramienta diagnóstica para la detección del deterioro cognitivo leve amnésico y no amnésico en la práctica médica”

2013-en curso: Rodrigo Cisneros Magíster Neurociencias Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Chile Sede Norte

b. Doctorado:
Codirectora de tesis:
2011- en curso: Título de la tesis: “Rol de klotho en la Regulación de la Neurogénesis Hipocampal del Adulto” Estudiante: Dr Felipe Salech, estudiante de doctorado en Ciencias Médicas con especialidad en Medicina Interna.Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Chile Sede Norte. En codirección con Dr Andrés Couve.

Docencia Tutorial becados de Neurología y de otras disciplinas en rotación por Unidad de Demencias en el Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile desde 2001 a la fecha (aprox 3-4 por año).


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Academic Excellence Prize 2006

    FACULTAD MEDICINA U CHILE

    Chile, 2006

    To the best publication at the Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile

  •   “Rodolfo Rencoret Award”

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Chile, 1978

    to the most outstanding medical student of Universidad Católica de Chile

  •   Academic Excellence

    FACULTAD MEDICINA U CHILE

    Chile, 2006

    To the best published paper of the year in Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile

  •   Miembro correspondiente de la Academia Chilena de Medicina

    ACADEMIA CHILENA DE MEDICINA

    Chile, 2021

    Participación en las actividades regulares de la Academia Chilena de Medicina, miembro del Comité de Educación Médica y del Comité de selección del Premio Anual de la Investigación Médica.

  •   Premio a la Investigación Médica

    ACADEMIA CHILENA DE MEDICINA

    Chile, 2019

    Premio a la trayectoria de investigación médica


 

Article (92)

Brain clocks capture diversity and disparities in aging and dementia across geographically diverse populations
Educational disparities in brain health and dementia across Latin America and the United States
Structural inequality linked to brain volume and network dynamics in aging and dementia across the Americas
A call for clinical trial globalization in Alzheimer's disease and related dementia
Cancer History Avoids the Increase of Senescence Markers in Peripheral Cells of Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impaired Patients
Classification of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia using routine clinical and cognitive measures across multicentric underrepresented samples: A cross sectional observational study
The autophagy protein Def8 is altered in Alzheimer's disease and Aβ42-expressing <i>Drosophila</i> brains
The BrainLat project, a multimodal neuroimaging dataset of neurodegeneration from underrepresented backgrounds
Visual-spatial processing impairment in the occipital-frontal connectivity network at early stages of Alzheimer's disease
Biomarkers for dementia in Latin American countries: Gaps and opportunities
Cancer History Is Associated with Slower Speed of Cognitive Decline in Patients with Amnestic Cognitive Impairment
Impact of social isolation and coping strategies in older adults with mild cognitive impairment during the covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study
Neuronal Rubicon Represses Extracellular APP/Amyloid beta Deposition in Alzheimer's Disease
Senescence Markers in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease
The Impact of a Yoga-Based Mindfulness Intervention versus Psycho-Educational Session for Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: The Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Analyzing Olfactory Neuron Precursors Non-Invasively Isolated through NADH FLIM as a Potential Tool to Study Oxidative Stress in Alzheimer's Disease
Association of Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms with Amyloid-β Transporters Expression and Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment in a Chilean Cohort
DEF8 and Autophagy-Associated Genes Are Altered in Mild Cognitive Impairment, Probable Alzheimer's Disease Patients, and a Transgenic Model of the Disease
Dominantly inherited Alzheimer's disease in Latin America: Genetic heterogeneity and clinical phenotypes
The Multi-Partner Consortium to Expand Dementia Research in Latin America (ReDLat): Driving Multicentric Research and Implementation Science
Nicotinamide, a Poly [ADP-Ribose] Polymerase 1 (PARP-1) Inhibitor, as an Adjunctive Therapy for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
The impact of SARS-CoV-2 in dementia across Latin America: A call for an urgent regional plan and coordinated response
Inverse relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and cancer: how immune checkpoints might explain the mechanisms underlying age-related diseases
Local Klotho Enhances Neuronal Progenitor Proliferation in the Adult Hippocampus
Cancer Imprints an Increased PARP-1 and p53-Dependent Resistance to Oxidative Stress on Lymphocytes of Patients That Later Develop Alzheimers Disease
Mitochondrial permeability transition pore contributes to mitochondrial dysfunction in fibroblasts of patients with sporadic Alzheimers disease
Vitamin D Increases A beta 140 Plasma Levels and Protects Lymphocytes from Oxidative Death in Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients
Mitochondrial Bioenergetics Is Altered in Fibroblasts from Patients with Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease
On the Role of Mining Exposure in Epigenetic Effects in Parkinson's Disease
PARP-1 and p53 Regulate the Increased Susceptibility to Oxidative Death of Lymphocytes from MCI and AD Patients
Virtual spatial navigation correlates with the moca score in amnestic mild cognitive impairment patients
Frizzled-1 receptor regulates adult hippocampal neurogenesis
Validation of the Spanish-language version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test in adults older than 60 years
Increased Susceptibility to Oxidative Death of Lymphocytes from Alzheimer Patients Correlates with Dementia Severity
Memory, fluency, and orientation: A five-minute screening test for cognitive decline
Inverse Susceptibility to Oxidative Death of Lymphocytes Obtained From Alzheimer's Patients and Skin Cancer Survivors: Increased Apoptosis in Alzheimer's and Reduced Necrosis in Cancer
Motor pathway excitability in ATP13A2 mutation carriers: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study
Olfactory Deficits and Cognitive Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease
Age-Dependent Increases in Apoptosis/Necrosis Ratios in Human Lymphocytes Exposed to Oxidative Stress
Association of Parkinson disease to PARK16 in a Chilean sample.
Cancer linked to Alzheimer disease but not vascular dementia
Clinical and Genetic Analysis of a Chilean Family with Early-Onset Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease
Clinical Spectrum of Kufor-Rakeb Syndrome in the Chilean Kindred with ATP13A2 Mutations
Frequency and Determinants of Poststroke Cognitive Impairment at Three and Twelve Months in Chile
Impaired Sense of Smell and Color Discrimination in Monogenic and Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease
Non-motor symptoms in genetic Parkinson disease.
Recessively Inherited Parkinsonism Effect of ATP13A2 Mutations on the Clinical and Neuroimaging Phenotype
Structural imaging in the presymptomatic stage of genetically determined parkinsonism
Utilidad de un cuestionario breve dirigido al informante para el diagnóstico temprano de casos de demencia: La versión Chilena del AD8 (AD8-Ch).
A COMMON BIOLOGICAL MECHANISM IN CANCER AND ALZHEIMERS DISEASE?
ATP13A2 Variants in Early-Onset Parkinson's Disease Patients and Controls
Frontotemporal dementia. Review of 63 cases
Ischemia enhances activation by Ca2+ and redox modification of ryanodine receptor channels from rat brain cortex
Rendimiento cognitivo en pacientes chilenos con cardiopatía coronaria y factores de riesgo cardiovascular
Afasia progresiva fluente: ¿Una forma de presentación inicial de demencia semántica?
Effects of ATP, Mg2+, and redox agents on the Ca2+ dependence of RyR channels from rat brain cortex
Neuropathologic heterogeneity in HDDD1: A familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions and progranulin mutation
HDDD2 is a familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive, tau-negative inclusions caused by a missense mutation in the signal peptide of progranulin
Hereditary parkinsonism with dementia is caused by mutations in ATP13A2, encoding a lysosomal type 5 P-type ATPase
Migraña con aura: Una mirada molecular a un problema hereditario
Alzheimer disease and cancer
Clinical variants of Alzheimer disease
Síndrome de Capgras en enfermedad de Alzheimer: Presentación de 2 casos
Redox regulation of RyR-mediated Ca2+ release in muscle and neurons
Demencia por carencia de vitamina B12, un caso clínico.
Deterioro cognitivo leve: seguimiento de 10 casos
SH oxidation coordinates subunits of rat brain ryanodine receptor channels activated by calcium and ATP
No effect of apolipoprotein E on neuronal cell death due to excitotoxic and apoptotic agents in vitro and neonatal hypoxic ischaemia in vivo
Clinical features of early-onset Alzheimer disease in a large kindred with an E280A presenilin-1 mutation.
E280A PS-1 mutation causes Alzheimer’s disease but age of onset is not modified by ApoE alleles.
Susceptibility to apoptosis is enhanced in immature cortical neurons
NADPH-diaphorase-containing striatal or cortical neurons are resistant to apoptosis
Neural control of the expression of a Ca2+-activated K+ channel involved in the induction of myotonic-like characteristics
The serpin-enzyme complex receptor recognizes soluble, nontoxic amyloid-beta peptide but not aggregated, cytotoxic amyloid-beta peptideThe sec receptor recognizes soluble non-toxic amyloid but not aggregated, cytotoxic amyloid ß peptide
3-Nitropropionic acid induces apoptosis in cultured striatal and cortical neurons.
THE STRUCTURE OF THE PRESENILIN-1 (S182) GENE AND IDENTIFICATION OF 6 NOVEL MUTATIONS IN EARLY-ONSET AD FAMILIES
Possible role of apamin-sensitive K+ channels in myotonic dystrophy.
COLCHICINE ALTERS APAMIN RECEPTORS, ELECTRICAL-ACTIVITY, AND SKELETAL-MUSCLE RELAXATION
Increase of apamin sensitive K+ channels in rat skeletal muscle induced by colchicine. Possible role in myotonia.
Potassium channels in developing excitable cells.
Effect of pyridine nucleotides on ATP synthesis and hydrolysis by the mitochondrial ATPase.
Batrachotoxin modified sodium channels from squid optic nerve in planar lipid bilayers. Ion conduction and gating properties.
Calcium activated potassium channels of large unitary conductance.
Orthophosphate-pyrophosphate exchange catalyzed by soluble and membrane-bound inorganic pyrophosphatases. Role of H+-gradient.
Contribution of water to free energy of hydrolysis of pyrophosphate
Synthesis of pyrophosphate by chromatophores of Rhodospirillum Rubrum in the light and by soluble yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase in water-organic solvent mixtures.
AXONAL-TRANSPORT DYSFUNCTION IN DYSTROPHIA MYOTONICA
Increase of muscle peroxisomal enzymes and myotonia induced by Nafenopin, a hypolipidemic drug.
Neural 16 S acetylcholinesterase is solubilized by heparin.
[New concepts on homeostasis)].
Modification of the Rosenblueth phenomenon by blockage of axonal flow. Behrens MI, Fernandez O, Luco JV. Brain Res. 1980 Aug 4;194(2):521-4.
The Rosenblueth Phenomenon.

Abstract (7)

HDDD with Alzheimer's disease as common comorbidity: A clinicopathologic case report
Nigrostriatal impairment in heterozygous ATP13A2 mutation carriers
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions and progranulin mutation in two kindreds
Regulation of single RyR channels from brain by endogenous modulators
Functional evaluation of Stroke patients in Chile: Three years follow up
Obesity as a stroke risk factor in Chile: a case-control study
Co-occurrence of dementia of the Alzheimer's type and cancer

CaseReport (1)

Demencia por déficit de vitamina B12: Caso clínico

ConferencePaper (1)

Modulation of ryanodine receptor channels from rat brain cortex in lipid bilayers

Editorial (2)

Is there a link between dementia and cancer?
Guías Clínicas de Diagnóstico y Tratamiento de las Demencias

EditorialMaterial (1)

AD and cancer Epidemiology makes for strange bedfellows

Letter (3)

Association of Parkinson disease to PARK16 in a Chilean sample
Eye Movement Disorders in ATP13A2 Mutation Carriers (PARK9)
Utilidad de un cuestionario breve dirigido al informante para el diagnóstico temprano de casos de demencia: La versión Chilena del AD8 (AD8-Ch)

Proyecto (8)

Genetics of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in Latin America
Analizador HD-X SIMOA®️: fortalecimiento de la investigación traslacional mediante la detección de biomarcadores utilizando tecnología ultrasensible y automatizada"
Multi-partner Consortium for Dementia Research in Latin America
Red de investigación traslacional en envejecimiento saludable=> Estudio de biomarcadores en “súper ancianos”
Cellular senescence and senescence-associated secretion phenotype (SASP) involvement in the inverse association between Alzheimer disease and cancer
Defective calcium/redox signaling and anomalous electrical brain activity in rats injected with amyloid beta oligomers=> functional and behavioral correlates with Alzheimer &#769;s patients
ESTUDIO DE UN NUEVO BIOMARCADOR PLASMATICO PARA LA DETECCION DE DETERIORO COGNITIVO LEVE.
Asociación Inversa entre cáncer y Alzheimer. Un mecanismo biológico común

Review (7)

Frontotemporal Dementias in Latin America: History, Epidemiology, Genetics, and Clinical Research
Default mode network and Alzheimer's disease
Red neural por defecto y enfermedad de Alzheimer
Nonmotor Symptoms in Genetic Parkinson Disease
Cien años de la enfermedad de Alzheimer: La inmunoterapia ¿una esperanza?
One hundred years of Alzheimer's disease. Immunotherapy a hope?
Redox regulation of RyR-mediated Ca2+ release in muscle neurons
1
Gina Sanchez

Profesor Asociado

ICBM

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE, FAC MEDICINA , ICBM

Santiago, Chile

3
Andrew Quest

Full Professor

Biologia Celular y Molecular

FACULTAD DE MEDICINA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

5
CAROLINA DELGADO

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

NEUROLOGÍA y neurocirugía

HOSPITAL CLINICO UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

SANTIAGO, Chile

1
Andrés Couve

Profesor Titular

Neurociencia

FACULTAD DE MEDICINA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

1
Luis Cid

Principal Research

Laboratorio Biología Molecular

CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTIFICOS CECs

Valdivia, Chile

5
Agustin Ibanez

Profesor Titular

Psicologia

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

1
Cristian Garrido

Coordinador Resonancia Magnetica

Radiologia

HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE - CENTRO DE IMAGENOLOGÍA

Santiago, Chile

1
René Vidal

Profesor Asociado

Universidad Mayor

Santiago, Chile

2
Vicente Torres

Associate Professor

Institute for Research in Dental Sciences

FACULTAD DE ODONTOLOGÍA - UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

4
Mauricio Henriquez

Profesor asistente

PROGRAMA DE FISIOLOGÍA Y BIOFíSICA

Universidad de Chile / Facultad de Medicina

Santiago, Chile

2
Nibaldo Inestrosa

Full Professor

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

3
Paola Murgas

Profesor Investigador Asistente

Facultad de Medicina y Ciencia

Universidad San Sebastián

Puerto Montt, Chile

3
Andrea Slachevsky

Associate Professor

ICBM

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Chile, Chile

1
Gorka Navarrete

Adjunct Professor

Psychology

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

1
Maria Aylwin

Associate Professor

Universidad de Talca

Talca, Chile

120
Maria Behrens

Profesor Titular

Neurología y Neurocirugía, y de Neurociencia

Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

4
M. Cecilia Hidalgo

Professor

ICBM

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Andrea Paula-Lima

Assistant Professor

Institute for research in Dental Sciences

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Christian Gonzalez

Full Professor

Biologia

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Lorena Varela

Assistant Professor

Biological Sciences

Universidad Andres Bello

Santiago, Chile

2
Rodrigo Quintanilla

Associate professor

Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
MANUEL VARAS

Research Professor

UNIVERSIDAD SAN SEBASTIÁN

Santiago, Chile

1
Álvaro Langer

Investigador

Instituto Milenio para la Investigación en Depresión y Personalidad (MIDAP)

1
Rodrigo Vergara

Investigador

Psicología

Universidad San Sebastián

Valdivia, Chile

1
Patricia Muñoz

Co-investigador

Universidad de Chile

SANTIAGO, Chile

1
Melissa Calegaro

Principal Investigator, head lab

Research Vice Presidency

Universidad Mayor

Santiago, Chile

1
Rodrigo Montefusco

Profesor Auxiliar

Instituto de Aparato Locomotor y Rehabilitación

Universidad Austral de Chile

Valdivia, Chile

6
Claudia Duran-Aniotz

Profesor Asociado

Escuela de Psicología

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Santiago, Chile

1
Natalia Salvadores

Profesora Asistente

Centro de Resiliencia, Adaptación y Mitigación

Universidad Mayor de Chile

Temuco, Chile

2
Maryam Farhang

FONDECYT POSTDOCTORADO 2019, N Proyeto 3190275

ENFERMERIA

Universidad de Las Américas

Santiago, Chile

1
Alejandro Luarte

Profesor Investigador

Neurociencias

Universidad de Los Andes

santiago, Chile

3
Carol San Martín

Profesora Asistente

Neurología y Neurocirugía

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Pedro Chana Cuevas

Profesor Titular

Facultad de Ciencias Medicas

Universidad de Santiago

Santiago, Chile

1
Marcelo Miranda

Neurólogo

Neurología

CLINICA LAS CONDES

Santiago, Chile

9
Felipe Salech

Academic

Medicine

Universidad de Chile / Facultad de Medicina

Santiago, Chile

1
Ute Wohlbier

Associate Professor

Center for Integrative Biology

Universidad Mayor de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Iván Plaza

Assistant Professor

Medical Technology

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

5
Daniela Ponce

Coordinadora de investigación

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

4
Nicole Rogers

Instructora

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Rodrigo Santibáñez

Behavioral Neurologist

Neurology

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Pavel Prado

Lead Researcher

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat)

Santiago de Chile, Chile

1
Fernando Henriquez

Investigador Asociado

Departamento de Fisiopatologia, Facultad de Medicina

Universidad de Chile

Santiago , Chile

2
Mariana Sinning

Medico Staff

Neurología Psiquiatria y Oncología

Clinica Alemana Santiago

Santiago, Chile

3
Mónica Silva

Lab Manager

Fisiología y Biofísica

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
TERESA PARRAO

Instructor

Facultad de Psicologia

Universidad Alberto Hurtado

Santiago, Chile

3
Barbara Bruna

Postdoctoral Researcher

Hospital Clinico universidad de Chile-Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Adolfo García

Investigador Asociado

Facultad de Humanidades

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago de Chile, Chile

1
ALEXIS HUMERES

DIRECTOR

MORFOFUNCIÓN

Universidad Diego Portales

SANTIAGO, Chile

2
Wileidy Gómez

Postdoctorado

Medicina

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Hachi Manzur

Neurólogo de Adultos

Neurología

Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile

Independencia, Chile

1
Felipe Grunenwald

Postdoctoral Researcher

CIIB

Universidad de Los Andes

santiago, Chile

2
Carlos Chacon

Asistente de Investigación

Impact

Universidad de Los Andes

Santiago, Chile

1
Rolando Rebolledo

Cirujano

Servicio de Cirugía

Hospital Dr. Sótero del Río

Santiago, Chile

1
Daniela Castillo

Estudiante de doctorado en Biotecnología

Biológicas

Universidad Andrés Bello

Santiago , Chile

3
sandra espinoza

asistente de investigacion

Laboratorio Neuroinmunologia

Fundacion Ciencias para la Vida/Universidad San Sebastian

Santiago, Chile