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.: Cavada, Carmen

CARE Committee member

Prof. Carmen Cavada
Dept. Anatómia, Histologia y Neurociencia
Fac. Medicina
Univ. Autónoma de Madrid
Arzobispo Morcillo s/n
28029 Madrid
Spain

Phone: (+34) 91 497 53 15, 497 53 22
Fax: (+34) 91 497 53 15, 497 53 38
E-mail: carmen.cavada@uam.es

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Career

1979
MD, Univ. of Bilbao Medical School. Extraordinary Award of the MD Degree.
1982
PhD, Autonomous Univ. of Madrid Medical School. Extraordinary Award of the Doctoral Degree. Supervisor: Prof. F. Reinoso-Suárez.
1982-1983
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dept. of Neuroanatomy, Erasmus Univ. Medical School, Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Supervisor: Prof. H.G.J.M. Kuypers
1984-1986
Fogarty Postdoctoral Fellow from NIH at the Section of Neuroanatomy, Yale Univ. Medical School, New Haven, CT (USA). Supervisor: Prof. P.S. Goldman-Rakic.
1986-1996
Assistant Professor - Human Anatomy and Neurobiology. Autonomous Univ. of Madrid Medical School.
1996-
Full Professor - Human Anatomy and Neuroscience. Autonomous Univ. of Madrid Medical School.
April-May 2002
Senior Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bologna (Italy).

Professional Experience

1980-present
Full participation in undergraduate programs of Human Anatomy and Neuroscience for medical students.
1982-present
Participation in more than fifty graduate courses within Doctoral Programs of Neuroscience in Spain and abroad (Karolinska Institute-Sweden, Switzerland and Italy).
1990-present
Direction of over thirty graduate courses within the Doctoral Program of Neuroscience of the Autonomous Univ. of Madrid.
1993-present
Direction of ten Doctoral Theses, all of which received the highest rating 'cum laude'. Four Theses received the. Extraordinary Award of the Doctoral Degree.

Selected Publications

  • Dopamine innervation in the thalamus: monkey versus rat
    Cerebral Cortex (2009) 19: 424-434. M.A. García-Cabezas, P. Martínez-Sánchez, M.A. Sánchez-González, M. Garzón and C. Cavada
  • Distribution of the dopamine innervation in the macaque and human thalamus
    NeuroImage (2007) 34: 965-984 M.A. García-Cabezas, B. Rico, M.A. Sánchez-González and C. Cavada
  • Chronic inhalation of rotenone or paraquat does not induce Parkinson's disease symptoms in mice or rats
    Exp. Neurol. (2007) 208: 120-126 A.I. Rojo, C. Cavada, M.R. de Sagarra and A. Cuadrado
  • Persistent penetration of MPTP through the nasal route induces Parkinson's disease in mice
    European J. Neurosci. (2006) 24: 1874-1844 A.I. Rojo, C. Montero, M. Salazar, R.M. Close, J. Fernández-Ruiz, M.A. Sánchez-González, M. R. de Sagarra, V. Jackson-Lewis, C. Cavada, and A. Cuadrado.
  • The primate thalamus is a key target for brain dopamine
    J. Neurosci. 25 (2005) 6076-6083 M.A. Sánchez-González, M.A. García-Cabezas, B. Rico and C. Cavada
  • Reelin immunoreactivity in the adult primate brain: intracellular localization in projecting and local circuit neurons of the cerebral cortex, hippocampus and subcortical regions
    Cerebral Cortex, 12 (2002) 1298-1311 V. Martínez-Cerdeño V, M.J. Galazo, C. Cavada and F. Clascá
  • The anatomical connections of the macaque monkey orbitofrontal cortex. A review
    Cerebral Cortex, 10 (2000) 220-242 C. Cavada, T. Compañy, J. Tejedor, R.J. Cruz-Rizzolo and F. Reinoso-Suárez
  • A stereological analysis of the lateral geniculate nucleus in adult Macaca nemestrina monkeys
    Visual Neuroscience, 16 (1999) 933-941 B. Blasco, C. Avendaño and C. Cavada
  • Adrenergic innervation of the monkey thalamus: an immunohistochemical study
    Neuroscience, 84 (1998) 839-847 B. Rico and C. Cavada
  • Acetylcholinesterase histochemistry in the macaque thalamus reveals territories selectively connected to frontal, parietal and temporal association cortices
    J. Chemical Neuroanatomy, 8 (1995) 245-257 C. Cavada, T. Compañy, A. Hernández-González and F. Reinoso-Suárez
  • The lateral geniculate nucleus projects to the inferior temporal cortex in the macaque monkey
    Neuroreport, 5 (1994) 2693-2696 A. Hernández-González, C. Cavada and F. Reinoso-Suárez
  • Rapid evolution of the visual system: A cellular assay of the retina and dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the Spanish wildcat and the domestic cat
    J. Neuroscience, 13 (1993) 208-228 R.W. Williams, C. Cavada and F. Reinoso-Suárez
  • Topographic segregation of cortico-striatal projections from posterior parietal subdivisions in the macaque monkey
    Neuroscience, 42 (1991) 683-696 C. Cavada and P.S. Goldman-Rakic
  • Posterior parietal cortex in rhesus monkey: II. Evidence for segregated corticocortical networks linking sensory and limbic areas with the frontal lobe
    J. Comp. Neurol., 287 (1989) 422-445 C. Cavada and P.S. Goldman-Rakic
  • Posterior parietal cortex in rhesus monkey: I. Parcellation of areas based on distinctive limbic and sensory corticocortical connections
    J. Comp. Neurol., 287 (1989) 393-421 C. Cavada and P.S. Goldman-Rakic
  • Topographical organization of the cortical afferent connections of the prefrontal cortex in the cat
    J. Comp. Neurol., 242 (1985) 293-324 C. Cavada and F. Reinoso-Suárez
  • Retrograde double labeling of neurons: The combined use of Horseradish Peroxidase and Diamidino Yellow Dihydrochloride (DY. 2HCl) compared with True Blue and DY.2HCl in rat descending brain stem pathways
    Brain Res., 308 (1984) 123-136 C. Cavada, A.M. Huisman and H.G.J.M. Kuypers
  • Afferent connections of area 20 in the cat studied by means of the retrograde axonal transport of horseradish peroxidase
    Brain Res., 270 (1983) 319-324 C. Cavada and F. Reinoso-Suárez
  • Intrahemispheric cortico-cortical afferent connections of the prefrontal cortex in the cat
    Brain Res., 223 (1981) 128-133 C. Cavada and F. Reinoso-Suárez