Pedro Jose Montoya Jimenez

Dr. Pedro Montoya (born 1963 in Algeciras) is Full Professor (Catedratico) of Biological Psychology at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain), and currently Senior Visiting Professor at the Federal University of ABC (Brazil). He received his Psychology degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 1986, and his PhD degree from the University of Munich (Germany) in 1993. He has worked as researcher and lecturer at German and American universities (USA, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil). His main research and publications are focused on brain activity during cognitive and emotional processing in chronic pain patients. His current interests include the study of brain networks involved in pain, emotional and cognitive processing. His research projects are usually funded by grants from Spanish agencies as the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Ministry of Health and the Balearic Government. He has published several scientific articles and chapter books on fibromyalgia syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, phantom limb pain and pain in individuals with cerebral palsy. Basically, his research has shown that chronic pain may cause significant changes in brain function. Currently, he is conducting a research project in healthy subjects and patients with chronic pain to test if individuals are able of learning to self-regulate their brain activity by using neurofeedback training and, consequently, to reduce their pain symptoms. Ongoing collaborative research projects are also focused on examining brain dynamics in chronic pain patients by using fMRI (Dr. Dante R. Chialvo, UCLA, & CONICET-Argentina) and EEG data (Dr. Jose Garcia Vivas Miranda, Federal University of Bahia & Dr. Abrahao Fontes Baptista, Federal University of ABC). More info: https://pedromontoya.com/ (Fonte: Currículo Lattes)