Katya Rubia

Prof Katya Rubia uses modern brain imaging methods, in particular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to investigate normal brain development between childhood and adulthood and differences in brain structure and function in children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders, most prominently Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), but also related disorders such as autism, conduct/oppositional disorder, obsesssive-compulsive disorder, child abuse, pediatric depression, and others. She also works in pharmacological imaging of stimulant and non-stimulant medications. For the past 10 years she is/has been conducting pioneering randomised controlled trials on non-invasive brain therapies for ADHD including fMRI-Neurofeedback and different forms of non-invasive brain stimulation including transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); transcranial magnetic resonance imaging (TMS); and trigeminal nerve stimulation (TNS). She also researches the effects of Meditation on the brain.
Katya Rubia is world leading in ADHD imaging/neurotherapeutics research and has published over 260 scientific papers with an h factor of 111.

Expertise: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, normal brain development, conduct/oppositional disorder, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), child abuse, paediatric depression, pharmacological imaging, functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Positron Emission Tomography (PET); functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS); EEG; neurotherapeutics; brain stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); transcranial magnetic resonance imaging (TMS); trigeminal nerve stimulation (TNS).