Mª Luisa Delgado Losada

Professor in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She is a Psychologist specialized in Clinical Psychology which helds the health qualification. She has developed her professional activity for 15 years (1995-2010) in the field of elderly care. Her academic activity takes place at the Faculty of Medicine where she teaches the following subjects: Neurodegenerative diseases Neuropsychology, Neurocognitive and social intervention, among others. Since 2013, she coordinates the Official Master's Degree in Health, Integration and Disability. She completed her doctoral thesis on the Study of the effectiveness of a training program in strategies to improve memory in older people, a work that was recognized with the Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the UCM. Since then she has been working on the development, improvement and application of the program (Intellectual Property Registry, No. 0040/2010). Her research has focused on the study of the benefits of cognitive training in improving memory and other cognitive abilities, the relevance of subjective memory complaints, the influence of cognitive reserve and other associated variables such as anxiety, depression or loneliness. Dra. Delgado has been responsible for research contracts for public and private organizations. The study of cognitive processes in normal and pathological aging has focused her scientific career, with the evaluation and rehabilitation of cognitive abilities being the points of maximum interest. She has been the principal investigator of two research projects: Evaluation of everyday memory problems in older people: Spanish adaptation of the Rivermead-III Behavioral Memory Test and Aging in Spanish population: Identification of biomarkers and their relationship with cognitive performance, funded by the IMSERSO and UCM-Santander, respectively. And, she has participated and currently participates as a member of the research team in various competitive projects that have resulted in a high scientific output, [Program for the rehabilitation of attentional capacities in patients with Alzheimer's dementia and cerebrovascular diseases (Fundación Mapfre, 2000); Analysis of alterations in cognitive functions and conduct disorders in mild cognitive impairment as predictors of the development of dementia (PSI2009-13598-C02-02); Elements to understand subjective memory complaints in aging: effects of training in cognitive tasks and in the reorganization of functional networks (PSI2012-38375-C03-03); Cognitive and neurophysiological characteristics of subjects at high risk of developing dementia: monitoring the effects of cognitive training (PSI2015-68793-C3-3-R). Study of the anatomo-functional connectome of AD-relatives: an early intervention on cognitive and lifestyles" (RTI2018-098762-B-C31). This scientific activity has allowed the creation of a large collaborative network between research groups from different fields: neuroimaging, genetics, biochemistry, physical activity, nutrition, cognition and artificial intelligence. In recent years, she has opened a new line of research based on the relationship between olfactory capacity, normal aging and neurodegenerative diseases.