Director of C3N
Healthy and pathological aging
Fernando Maestú is a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Processes, and Speech Therapy at the Complutense University of Madrid. His main scientific interest focuses on the study of human memory and forgetting, as well as plasticity phenomena. For more than 25 years, he has used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to decipher the electrophysiological bases of these phenomena, both in healthy individuals and in patients with acquired brain damage or neurodegenerative diseases. His main contribution concerns the description of changes in brain functional connectivity profiles in individuals in early and even preclinical stages of dementia. He has also significantly contributed to the understanding of plasticity phenomena following brain damage.
This line of research focuses on the clinical application of electrophysiological biomarkers. These biomarkers are developed by studying, with MEG and EEG, the electromagnetic brain activity of patients with neurological disorders. This line participates in studies that involve patients with epilepsy, stroke, dementia, autism or ADHD.
The memory and language research line focuses on the dynamics of brain oscillations and the neural communication mechanisms that underlie the cognitive control of memory and its interactions with other cognitive processes such as language comprehension.
