Olga Valverde
Position
Lecturer
Qualifications
PhD in Medicine
Biography
Olga Valverde graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Cádiz, where she later earned a PhD in Neuroscience (1992). She also has a PhD in Pharmacy from the Paris Descartes University in Paris (1996). In 1998 she joined the Department of Health and Life Sciences at UPF as a lecturer in human biology. She is currently Professor in Psychobiology at UPF, where she teaches on several courses. As a researcher she heads the Neurobiology of Behaviour Research Group (GReNeC) at the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences at UPF. The group’s main lines of research include studying the neurological bases of affective disorders, drug addiction and pain.
Subjects they teach
Introduction to Health Sciences
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Programme:
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This is an introductory course to the field of health sciences in the areas of both preventive and clinical therapeutic health practices, with a focus on subjects related to critical thinking and problem solving. Research models and trends in the health sciences. The course will go over basic concepts in the health sciences and their relationship with the causation and prevention of disease.
2019-2020 teaching plan subject (in extinction).