Eduard Vieta
| Eduard Vieta Pascual | |
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| Born |
16 January 1963 Barcelona, Spain |
| Residence | Spain |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
| Education | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
Eduard Vieta Pascual is a Spanish psychiatrist and a leading scientific authority on the neurobiology and treatment of bipolar disorder.
Eduard Vieta was born in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). He studied Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and graduated in 1987. He did his residency training at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and became a specialist in Psychiatry in 1991. He subsequently received his PhD with honors at the University of Barcelona in 1994.
Vieta’s research interests include the neurobiology and treatment of bipolar disorders. His work focuses on new pharmacological and psychological treatments and the effects of psycho-education and the other psychotherapeutic methods in the treatment of bipolar disorder and to the development of novel pharmacological treatments and psychotherapies such as Psychoeducation and Functional Remediation for bipolar disorder.
Dr. Vieta has made contributions to many of the published bipolar disorder treatment guidelines.
Vieta has received the following awards:
Dr. Eduard Vieta is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, where he heads the Bipolar Disorders Program, a worldwide leader in the clinical care, research and teaching of bipolar disorders and Head of the Psychiatry Unit at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Vieta is also the Director of the Bipolar Research Program at the Spanish Research Network on Mental Diseases (CIBERSAM), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and director of the Bipolar Disorder Group of the Neuroscience Area of Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), as well as Treasurer of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP).
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