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Alberto González Villar. Publicou 18 artigos em revistas especializadas. Recebeu 8 prémio(s) e/ou homenagens. Participa e/ou participou como Bolseiro de Investigação em 1 projeto(s) e Investigador em 5 projeto(s).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Alberto González Villar

Citation names

  • González-Villar, Alberto

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
451B-F54B-A662
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0009-920X
Education
Degree Classification
2013/01/01 - 2017/07/23
Concluded
 PhD in Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Departamento de Psicología Clínica y Psicobiología, Spain
"ACTIVIDAD ELÉCTRICA CEREBRAL ASOCIADA AL FUNCIONAMIENTO COGNITIVO EN PACIENTES CON FIBROMIALGIA" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Sobresaliente cum laude
2010/09/01 - 2012/06/01
Concluded
 Master Universitario en Neurociencia (Master)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Departamento de Psicología Clínica y Psicobiología, Spain
2005/09/01 - 2010/07/01
Concluded
 Licenciatura en Psicología (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/06/16 - 2025/06/15 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2018/10/01 - 2019/06/15 Postdoc (Research) Xunta de Galicia Consellería de Cultura Educacion e Ordenación Universitaria, Spain
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2013/01/01 - 2015/12/31 Contracted Researcher (Research) Fundación Ramón Domínguez, Spain
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Departamento de Psicología Clínica y Psicobiología, Spain
2011/01/01 - 2011/12/31 Research Trainee (Research) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Departamento de Psicología Clínica y Psicobiología, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019 - 2020 Nuevas técnicas de neuromodulación no invasivas para comprender y tratar el dolor
EIN2019-103509
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/12/01 - Current Multi-level analysis of the interplay between emotional procesess and embodied social cues: a transdiagnostic approach
ND
Researcher
Université de Lille, France

Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Ongoing
2022/06/01 - 2027/05/31 PAINLESS: Pain relief in palliative care of cancer using home-based neuromodulation and predictive biomarkers
10.3030/101057367
External Advisor
Ongoing
2023/10/01 - 2026/09/30 How does affective touch cause analgesia? Unraveling spinal and supraspinal factors
PT/FB/BL-2022-189
Principal investigator
Ongoing
2022/02/01 - 2024/02/01 Evaluation of the analgesic effects of interpersonal/affective touch during the induction of secondary hyperalgesia and temporal summation of second pain
EGG
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Psicologia, Portugal
Ongoing
2022/01/17 - 2023/07/16 Caracterização electrofisiológica da estimulação C-Táctil e a sua interacção com a dor
EXPL/PSI-GER/0084/2021
Principal investigator
Ongoing
2018/01/01 - 2020/12/31 To think or not think of alcohol, that is the question: Memory suppression in young binge drinkers
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-028672
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2018/01/01 - 2020/12/31 Controlo cognitivo como um marcador do declinio associado à idade: um modelo preditivo usando imagem cerebral multimodal
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-032152
Researcher
Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2016/12/30 - 2019/12/29 Efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation in patients with fibromyalgia: comparison of clinical effects between two cortical targets
PSI2016-75313-R
Researcher
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Departamento de Psicología Clínica y Psicobiología, Spain
 Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Concluded
2013/01/01 - 2016/01/01 Biomarkers of fibromyalgia(FM): genetic profile, inhibitory control and brain processing of painful and emotional stimuli in FM
PSI2013-45818-R
Researcher
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2011/12/31 Brain processing of painful and non painful stimuli in patients with fibromyalgia: An evoked potentials study
PSI2009- 14555
Research Fellow
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. López-Caneda, Eduardo; Crego, Alberto; Campos, Ana D.; González-Villar, Alberto; Sampaio, Adriana. "Suppression of memories in the Think/No-Think Alcohol task: An envent-related potential study". Paper presented in 19th World Congress of International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA2018), Kyoto, 2018.
Conference poster
  1. Rocha, S.; da-Silva, Márcia; Oliveira, M; Ribeiro-Carreira, A.; Sampaio, Adriana; González-Villar, Alberto; Coutinho, Joana. Corresponding author: Rocha, S.. "The analgesic effect of affective touch in romantic couples: the mediating role of marital satisfaction". Paper presented in global neuropsychology congress 2025, 2024.
  2. Oliveira, M; da-Silva, Márcia; Rocha,S.; Ribeiro-Carreira, A.; Sampaio, Adriana; Coutinho, Joana; González-Villar, Alberto. Corresponding author: Oliveira, M. "The Role of Emotional Regulation in the Perception and in the Central Sensitization Processes of Pain". Paper presented in global neuropsychology congress 2025, 2024.
  3. Ribeiro-Carreira, A.; da-Silva, Márcia; Pereira, Ana Rita; Coutinho, Joana; Sampaio, Adriana; González-Villar, Alberto. "C-Tactile Stimulation Modulates Heartbeat Evoked Potentials". Paper presented in Global Neuropsychology Congress 2024 - Porto, 2024.
  4. Carreira, A.; da Silva, Márcia; Pereira, Ana Rita; Mafalda Cruz; Coutinho, Joana; Sampaio, Adriana; González-Villar, Alberto. "Does affective touch modulate sensory evoked potentials?". Paper presented in XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología y Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva (SEPNECA), 2023.
  5. da Silva, Márcia; Pereira, Ana Rita; Carreira, A.; Sampaio, Adriana; González-Villar, Alberto; Coutinho, Joana. "Does affective touch influence cardiac autonomic responses in a pain paradigm?". 2023.
  6. Pereira, Ana Rita; Pozo Rodríguez, Marta; Montsé Fernández-Prieto; Sampaio, Adriana; González-Villar, Alberto. "Translation and validation of the Touch Experiences and Attitudes Questionnaire (TEAQ) for the Spanish population". Paper presented in XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicofisiología y Neurociencia Cognitiva y Afectiva (SEPNECA), 2023.
  7. Pereira, Ana Rita; da Silva, Márcia; Carreira, A.; Coutinho, Joana; Sampaio, Adriana; González-Villar, Alberto. "Electrophysiological signatures of affective touch". Paper presented in The Festival of Touch, 2023.
  8. da Silva, Márcia; Pereira, Ana Rita; Carreira, A.; Sampaio, Adriana; Coutinho, Joana; González-Villar, Alberto. "How does CT stimulation affect Temporal Summation of Second Pain?". Paper presented in The Festival of Touch, 2023.
Journal article
  1. Ana Rita Pereira; Adriana Sampaio; Francis McGlone; Alberto J. González-Villar. "Neurophysiological Responses to Vicarious Affective Touch: An Electroencephalography (EEG) Study". European Journal of Neuroscience (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.70099.
    10.1111/ejn.70099
  2. Ana Rita Pereira; Márcia da-Silva; A. Ribeiro-Carreira; Adriana Sampaio; Alberto J. González-Villar. "Brain oscillatory dynamics during discriminative vs CT-optimal touch". Biological Psychology (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109018.
    10.1016/j.biopsycho.2025.109018
  3. Márcia da-Silva; Ana Rita Pereira; Adriana Sampaio; Joana Coutinho; Alberto J. González-Villar. "The effects of C-tactile stimulation on temporal summation of second pain: A study of the central and peripheral neural correlates". Brain Research (2025): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2024.149267.
    10.1016/j.brainres.2024.149267
  4. Antonio Gil-Ugidos; Lara Rubal-Otero; Alberto González-Villar; María Teresa Carrillo-De-la-Peña. "Conditioned Pain Modulation (CPM) Paradigms: Reliability and Relationship With Individual Characteristics". Pain Management Nursing (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmn.2024.12.001.
    10.1016/j.pmn.2024.12.001
  5. Rui Rodrigues; Sónia Silva Sousa; Eduardo López-Caneda; Natália Almeida-Antunes; Alberto Jacobo González-Villar; Adriana Sampaio; Alberto Crego. "Associative memory in alcohol-related contexts: An fMRI study with young binge drinkers". Journal of Psychopharmacology (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02698811241282624.
    10.1177/02698811241282624
  6. MARIA CARLA GERRA; Cristina Dallabona; Matteo Manfredini; Rocco Giordano; Camilla Capriotti; Alberto González-Villar; Yolanda Triñanes; Lars Arendt-Nielsen; Maria Teresa Carrillo-de-la-Peña. "The polymorphism Val158Met in the COMT gene: disrupted dopamine system in fibromyalgia patients?". Pain (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003313.
    10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003313
  7. Lara; Antonio Gil-Ugidos; Alberto J. González-Villar; María Carrillo-De-La-Pena. "Temporal summation of second pain is affected by cognitive load". Journal of Neuroscience Research (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jnr.25363.
    10.1002/jnr.25363
  8. Ana Rita Pereira; Joana Antunes; Paula D. Trotter; Francis McGlone; Alberto J. González-Villar; Adriana Sampaio. "Translation, validity, and reliability of the European Portuguese version of the Touch Experiences and Attitudes Questionnaire". PeerJ 11 (2023): e14960-e14960. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14960.
    10.7717/peerj.14960
  9. Alateyat, Heba; Cruz, Sara; Cernadas, Eva; Tubío-Fungueiriño, María; Sampaio, Adriana; González-Villar, Alberto; Carracedo, Angel; Fernández-Delgado, Manuel; Fernández-Prieto, Montse. "A Machine Learning Approach in Autism Spectrum Disorders: From Sensory Processing to Behavior Problems". Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 15 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2022.889641.
    10.3389/fnmol.2022.889641
  10. Samartin-Veiga, N.; González-Villar, A. J.; Pidal-Miranda, M.; Vázquez-Millán, A.; Carrillo-de-la-Peña, M. T.. "Active and sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) improved quality of life in female patients with fibromyalgia". Quality of Life Research (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11136-022-03106-1.
    10.1007/s11136-022-03106-1
  11. González-Villar, Alberto; Galdo-Álvarez, Santiago; Carrillo-de-la-Peña, María T.. "Neural correlates of unpredictable Stop and non-Stop cues in overt and imagined execution". Psychophysiology (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14019.
    10.1111/psyp.14019
  12. Gerra, Maria Carla; Carnevali, Davide; Ossola, Paolo; González-Villar, Alberto; Pedersen, Inge Søkilde; Triñanes, Yolanda; Donnini, Claudia; et al. "DNA Methylation Changes in Fibromyalgia Suggest the Role of the Immune-Inflammatory Response and Central Sensitization". Journal of Clinical Medicine 10 21 (2021): 4992. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10214992.
    10.3390/jcm10214992
  13. Samartin-Veiga, Noelia; Pidal-Miranda, Marina; González-Villar, Alberto J.; Bradley, Claire; Garcia-Larrea, Luis; O'Brien, Anthony T.; Carrillo-de-la-Peña, María T.. "Transcranial direct current stimulation of 3 cortical targets is no more effective than placebo as treatment for fibromyalgia". Pain Publish Ah (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002493.
    10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002493
  14. Gerra, Maria Carla; González-Villar, Alberto; Arendt-Nielsen, Lars; Pedersen, Inge Søkilde; Triñanes, Yolanda; Donnini, Claudia; Manfredini, Matteo; et al. "A family-based study to identify genetic biomarkers of fibromyalgia: consideration of patients' subgroups.". Clinical and experimental rheumatology 39 3(130) (2021): 144-152. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34161225/.
    Published
  15. Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT; González-Villar A; Triñanes Y. "Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on chronic pain in Spain: a scoping review.". Pain reports (2021): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/33615089.
    10.1097/pr9.0000000000000899
  16. Gerra, Maria Carla; Carnevali, Davide; Pedersen, Inge Søkilde; Donnini, Claudia; Manfredini, Matteo; González-Villar, Alberto; Triñanes, Yolanda; et al. "DNA methylation changes in genes involved in inflammation and depression in fibromyalgia: a pilot study". Scandinavian Journal of Pain 21 2 (2020): 372-383. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sjpain-2020-0124.
    10.1515/sjpain-2020-0124
  17. Samartin-Veiga N; González-Villar AJ; Triñanes Y; Gómez-Perretta C; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Effects of intensity, attention and medication on auditory-evoked potentials in patients with fibromyalgia.". Scientific reports (2020): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/33318554.
    10.1038/s41598-020-78377-0
  18. González-Villar AJ; Triñanes Y; Gómez-Perretta C; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Patients with fibromyalgia show increased beta connectivity across distant networks and microstates alterations in resting-state electroencephalogram.". NeuroImage (2020): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/32853817.
    10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117266
  19. González-Villar AJ; Arias M; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Brain Electrical Activity Associated With Visual Attention and Reactive Motor Inhibition in Patients With Fibromyalgia.". Psychosomatic medicine (2019): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/31048636.
    10.1097/psy.0000000000000677
  20. Samartin-Veiga N; González-Villar AJ; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Neural correlates of cognitive dysfunction in fibromyalgia patients: Reduced brain electrical activity during the execution of a cognitive control task.". NeuroImage. Clinical (2019): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30999252.
    10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101817
  21. Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT; Bonilla FM; González-Villar AJ. "Effect of the stop-signal modality on brain electrical activity associated with suppression of ongoing actions.". Biological psychology (2019): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30807785.
    10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.01.010
  22. López-Caneda E; Crego A; Campos AD; González-Villar A; Sampaio A. "The Think/No-Think Alcohol Task: A New Paradigm for Assessing Memory Suppression in Alcohol-Related Contexts.". Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30375668.
    10.1111/acer.13916
  23. Pidal-Miranda M; González-Villar AJ; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT; Andrade E; Rodríguez-Salgado D. "Broad cognitive complaints but subtle objective working memory impairment in fibromyalgia patients.". PeerJ (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30498630.
    10.7717/peerj.5907
  24. Pidal-Miranda M; González-Villar AJ; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Pain Expressions and Inhibitory Control in Patients With Fibromyalgia: Behavioral and Neural Correlates.". Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience (2018): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/30670955.
    10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00323
  25. González-Villar AJ; Samartin-Veiga N; Arias M; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Increased neural noise and impaired brain synchronization in fibromyalgia patients during cognitive interference.". Scientific reports (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28724985.
    10.1038/s41598-017-06103-4
  26. González-Villar AJ; Pidal-Miranda M; Arias M; Rodríguez-Salgado D; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Electroencephalographic Evidence of Altered Top-Down Attentional Modulation in Fibromyalgia Patients During a Working Memory Task.". Brain topography (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28397030.
    10.1007/s10548-017-0561-3
  27. López-Caneda E; Rodríguez Holguín S; Correas Á; Carbia C; González-Villar A; Maestú F; Cadaveira F. "Binge drinking affects brain oscillations linked to motor inhibition and execution.". Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28168896.
    10.1177/0269881116689258
  28. González-Villar AJ; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Brain electrical activity signatures during performance of the Multisource Interference Task.". Psychophysiology (2017): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/28220517.
    10.1111/psyp.12843
  29. González-Villar AJ; Bonilla FM; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "When the brain simulates stopping: Neural activity recorded during real and imagined stop-signal tasks.". Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27160368.
    10.3758/s13415-016-0434-3
  30. Galdo-Alvarez S; Bonilla FM; González-Villar AJ; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Functional Equivalence of Imagined vs. Real Performance of an Inhibitory Task: An EEG/ERP Study.". Frontiers in human neuroscience (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/27695410.
    10.3389/fnhum.2016.00467
  31. Gómez-Perretta C; Triñanes Y; González-Villar AJ; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Evaluation of the accuracy of several symptoms and domains in distinguishing patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia from healthy controls.". Clinical and experimental rheumatology (2016): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/26812139.
  32. Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT; Triñanes Y; González-Villar A; Gómez-Perretta C; García-Larrea L. "Filtering out repetitive auditory stimuli in fibromyalgia: a study of P50 sensory gating.". European journal of pain (London, England) (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/25430500.
    10.1002/ejp.627
  33. González-Villar AJ; Triñanes Y; Zurrón M; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Brain processing of task-relevant and task-irrelevant emotional words: an ERP study.". Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24481851.
    10.3758/s13415-013-0247-6
  34. Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT; Triñanes Y; González-Villar A; Romero-Yuste S; Gómez-Perretta C; Arias M; Wolfe F. "Convergence between the 1990 and 2010 ACR diagnostic criteria and validation of the Spanish version of the Fibromyalgia Survey Questionnaire (FSQ).". Rheumatology international (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24952419.
    10.1007/s00296-014-3074-3
  35. Triñanes Y; González-Villar A; Gómez-Perretta C; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Suicidality in chronic pain: predictors of suicidal ideation in fibromyalgia.". Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24690160.
    10.1111/papr.12186
  36. Triñanes Y; González-Villar A; Gómez-Perretta C; Carrillo-de-la-Peña MT. "Profiles in fibromyalgia: algometry, auditory evoked potentials and clinical characterization of different subtypes.". Rheumatology international (2014): http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/24723098.
    10.1007/s00296-014-3007-1
Preprint
  1. Mariana Oliveira; Marcia Fernanda da-Silva; Lídia Helena Lopes Carvalho; A. Ribeiro-Carreira; Ana Rita Pereira; Adriana Sampaio; Joana Fernandes Pereira Coutinho; Alberto J. González-Villar. "Interplay between cortical and neurocardiac interoceptive processes and its association with self-reported interoceptive sensibility". 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/uh43k_v1.
    10.31219/osf.io/uh43k_v1
  2. Lídia Helena Lopes Carvalho; Marcia Fernanda da-Silva; Mariana Oliveira; A. Ribeiro-Carreira; Ana Rita Pereira; Adriana Sampaio; Joana Fernandes Pereira Coutinho; Alberto J. González-Villar. "Cardiac activity is associated with changes in microstates of the electroencephalogram". 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/s4jd3_v1.
    10.31234/osf.io/s4jd3_v1
  3. A. Ribeiro-Carreira; Márcia da-Silva; Ana Rita Pereira; María Carrillo-de-la-Peña; Joana Coutinho; Adriana Sampaio; Alberto J. González-Villar. "CT-optimal stimulation modulates somatosensory processing". 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.172811794.42477833/v1.
    10.22541/au.172811794.42477833/v1
  4. Ana Rita Pereira; Adriana Sampaio; Francis McGlone; Alberto J. González-Villar. "Vicarious processing of affective touch: an electroencephalography (EEG) study". 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5cxen.
    10.31234/osf.io/5cxen
Activities

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/02/11 - 2020/03/31 Neurociências dos Processos Psicológicos I Neurociências dos Processos Psicológicos I (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2016/06/07 - 2016/06/09 Python and Psychopy: Generating stimuli in psychology and neuroscience (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
2015/06/07 - 2015/06/09 Python and Psychopy: Generating stimuli in psychology and neuroscience (Doutoramento) Universidade do Minho Escola de Psicologia, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2022 EFIC- Grünenthal Grant (E-G-G)
2020 Iacobus program for research stays “On-line pain assessment in patients with fibromyalgia”
Comunidade de traballo Galicia-Norte de Portugal (GNP-AECT), Spain
2019 Acciones de dinamización «Europa Investigación» 2019.
Gobierno de España Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain
2018 Junior Researcher fellowship, Concurso Estímulo ao Emprego Científico-Individual
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 Postdoctoral fellowship
Xunta de Galicia, Spain
2017 Research scholarship in Health Sciences
Deputación da Coruña, Spain
2017 Iacobus program for research stays “Brain activity during the tactile processing in persons with autism”
Comunidade de traballo Galicia-Norte de Portugal (GNP-AECT), Spain
2013 PhD scholarship
Fundación Ramón Domínguez, Spain
2009 Collaboration Grant to start a research career
Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte, Spain