Dr Isabel Morales-惭耻帽辞锄

Dr Isabel Morales-惭耻帽辞锄 PhD

Assistant Professor in Psychology
Institute for Mental Health

Contact details

Email: i.morales-munoz@bham.ac.uk
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Dr Isabel Morales-Muñoz is Assistant Professor in Psychology based at the Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology, University 麻豆精选. Her main area of research is to investigate risk factors for youth mental health, with a special focus on investigating the role of sleep problems in the development of mental health problems. Her current work is mainly focused on secondary data analyses (e.g. birth cohort studies, such as ALSPAC, Millennium cohort), but she has also expertise in using different scientific methods, including clinical assessments, neuropsychological testing and ERP assessments.

Qualifications

BSc in Psychology (University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain, 2007)

MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2009)

MSc in Psychopathology and Health (National University of Distance Education, Spain, 2012)

PhD in Neuroscience (Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2014)

Biography

Dr Morales-Muñoz was born in Vitoria, Spain. She has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, from the University of Deusto, Bilbao (Spain). In 2009 she completed her MSc in Cognitive Neuopsychology at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and in 2012 her MSc in Psychopathology and Health at the National University of Distance Education (Spain). Her PhD was in the neuropsychological and neurophysiological bases of cognitive disorders in First Episode Psychosis, and was completed in 2014, at the Complutense University of Madrid.

After completing her PhD, she joined the University of Helsinki (Finland) as postdoctoral fellow, and subsequently in 2016, she joined the National Institute for Health and Welfare, in Helsinki, as postdoctoral fellow. In April 2018, she was awarded the Academy of Finland postdoctoral research fellow, to investigate sleep development in early childhood and the links between sleep and neurodevelopmental and mental health problems in children. In June 2022, she joined the School of Psychology as Assistant Professor, after spending 4 years as honorary research fellow at the Institute for Mental Health, at the University 麻豆精选.

Teaching

Dr Morales-Muñoz is interested in supervising MSc and PhD projects. Potential students can contact her at I.Morales-Munoz@bham.ac.uk.

Research

Research interests

Sleep and mental health
Sleep and neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD)
Sleep development
Early life risk factors for youth mental health
Birth cohort studies
Epidemiology
Neuropsychology and psychosis

Dr Morales-Muñoz conducts research investigating risk factors for the development of mental health problems (e.g. psychosis, anxiety, depression) in young people. More specifically, her current line of research focuses on investigating the role of sleep problems in the development of youth mental health problems. To do this, she uses longitudinal birth cohort studies and data science approaches. Further, she aims to investigate the underlying mechanisms of the associations between sleep and mental health problems, such as brain mechanisms or inflammatory markers. The ultimately aim of her research is to design sleep intervention programs to improve youth mental health.

Other activities

Dr Morales-Muñoz is the Co-Chair of the Midlands Sleep Group (MSG): https://www.midlandssleepgroup.org/

Publications

Highlight publications

Morales-Munoz, I, Broome, M & Marwaha, S 2020, '', JAMA psychiatry, vol. 77, no. 12, e201875, pp. 1256-1265.

Morales-惭耻帽辞锄, I, Upthegrove, R, Lawrence, K, Thayakaran, R, Kooij, S, Gregory, AM & Marwaha, S 2023, '', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Morales-Munoz, I, Palmer, E, Mallikarjun, P, Marwaha, S & Upthegrove, R 2021, '', Biological Psychiatry.

Morales-惭耻帽辞锄, I, Upthegrove, R, Mallikarjun, PK, Broome, MR & Marwaha, S 2021, '', JAMA network open, vol. 4, no. 4, e214724.

Morales-Munoz, I, Ashdown-Doel, B, Beazley, E, Carr, C, Preece, C & Marwaha, S 2022, '', Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, pp. 1-11.

Recent publications

Article

Durdurak, BB, Morales Munoz, I, de Cates, A, Wiseman, CE, Broome, MR & Marwaha, S 2025, '', Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 16.

Durdurak, BB, Williams, B, Zhigalov, A, Moore, A, Mallikarjun, P, Wong, D, Marwaha, S & Morales-惭耻帽辞锄, I 2024, '', Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, vol. 33, e32.

Morales-Munoz, I, Marwaha, S, Upthegrove, R & Cropley, V 2024, '', JAMA psychiatry, vol. 81, no. 8, pp. 825-833.

Manitsa, I, Gregory, AM, Broome, MR, Bagshaw, AP, Marwaha, S & Morales鈥惒殉苊贝浅�, I 2024, '', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Palmer, ER, Morales-惭耻帽辞锄, I, Perry, BI, Marwaha, S, Warwick, E, Rogers, JC & Upthegrove, R 2024, '', JAMA psychiatry.

Jones, R, Morales-Munoz, I, Shields, A, Blackman, G, Legge, SE, Pritchard, M, Kornblum, D, MacCabe, JH & Upthegrove, R 2023, '', Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, vol. 113, pp. 267-274.

Morales-惭耻帽辞锄, I, Paavonen, J, Kantoj盲rvi, K, H盲rk盲nen, T, Saarenp盲盲-Heikkil盲, O, Kylliainen, A, Himanen, S-L & Paunio, T 2023, '', Sleep, vol. 46, no. 7, zsad047.

Morales-惭耻帽辞锄, I, Mallikarjun, PK, Chandan, JS, Thayakaran, R, Upthegrove, R & Marwaha, S 2023, '', British Journal of Psychiatry , pp. 1-9.

Hett, D, Morales-惭耻帽辞锄, I, Durdurak, BB, Carlish, M & Marwaha, S 2023, '', International journal of bipolar disorders, vol. 11, no. 1, 23.

Morales-惭耻帽辞锄, I & Gregory, AM 2023, '', Sleep Medicine Clinics, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 245-254.

Morales鈥恗u帽oz, I, Hett, D, Humpston, C, Mallikarjun, PK & Marwaha, S 2022, '', JCPP Advances.

Qiu, J & Morales-惭耻帽辞锄, I 2022, '', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 3, 1868.

Huhdanp盲盲, H, Morales-惭耻帽辞锄, I, Aronen, ET, P枚lkki, P, Saarenp盲盲-Heikkil盲, O, Kylli盲inen, A & Paavonen, EJ 2021, '', Child psychiatry and human development, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 783-799.

Editorial

Alvarez-Alonso, MJ, Scott, R & Morales-Munoz, I 2022, '', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 13, 903022.

Review article

Carr, C, Borges, D, Lewis, K, Heron, J, Wilson, S, Broome, MR, Jones, I, Di Florio, A & Morales-惭耻帽辞锄, I 2023, '', Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 12, no. 24, 7550.