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Rodríguez Holguín, Socorro

rodriguez.holguin@usc.es

Current position

Tenured Professor of Psychobiology at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology of the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). Since 2025, coordinator of NECEA.

Interests

My main area of interest is the study of neurocognitive markers of risk to psychopathological conditions, assessed by means of brain electrical activity recording (EEG/ERP) during the execution of attention, memory and executive tasks, and relating it with other measures, such as neuropsychological performance and neuroimaging. The last decades, I was focused on the consequences of alcohol binge drinking in university students as risk factor to alcoholism Since 2025, we are opening a new research line focused on risk to depression and anxiety in this population.

Brief academic profile

Graduate (1990) and PhD (1996) in Psychology by the University of Santiago de Compostela. My academic career has been developed at the same university, with brief stays at other institutions (Neurodynamics Laboratory, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, State University of New York,1997; Biological and Health Psychology Department, Autonomous University of Madrid, 1998). My research activity has been allways focused on the study of brain activity associated to cognitive processes; I was initially interested in children and adolescents with family risk for alcoholism (1992-2000), then I changed to the study of attentional processes in general population (2001-2006), and, then returned to special populations, now focusing in youth binge drinkers. This research activity has been always carried out in the frame of research projects funded by public competitive grants. Regard to teaching activities, I teach courses (Psychophysiology, Cognitive Neuroscience) in the Psychology Degree and also in Masters (Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Neuroscience) and PhD Programs since 1994. I have also carried out academic responsabilities in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, the Faculty of Psychology and, recently, the Institute of Psychology of the USC (IPsiUS)..

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