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He is a physician specializing in psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (INNN) in Mexico, where he directs the neuropsychiatry and cognitive neurology program. He has a PhD in Science from UNAM and is a professor of Scientific Methodology. He is a member of the National Research System of the National Council of Science and Technology.
He has published over 100 scientific papers in the field of clinical neurosciences. He has received awards in Australia (2006, International Neuropsychiatric Association), the United States (2011, International Conference on Bipolar Disorders) and the United Kingdom (2024, JNNP Lecture, British Neuropsychiatric Association). He published the treatise Principios de neuropsiquiatría (2019) and the text book Imágenes en neuropsiquiatría: lecciones de neurociencia clínica (2022).
He has also done extensive work in the field of scientific dissemination, literature and the cultural sphere. He is the author of the novel Paramnesia (2006, Penguin Random House) and the books Breve diccionario clínico del alma (2010, Penguin Random House), Un diccionario sin palabras (2016, Almadia), Depresión: la noche más oscura (2020, Penguin Random House) and La melancolía creativa (2022, Penguin Random House), which explore the boundaries between medical fiction, literary creativity and scientific essay.
In 2009, he won the Premio Nacional de Ensayo Literario from the Instituto de Bellas Artes de México.
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The need to "lose one's way." Madness and creativity