Júlia Ballester Plané
Investigador post-doc
Research group
Research line:
Neuropsychology-cerebral palsy
The researcher Júlia Ballester graduated in Psychology in 2011 from the University of Barcelona and obtained her Ph.D. degree in Medicine and Translational Research from the University of Barcelona in 2018. In 2012 he completed the Master's degree in Neurosciences from the University of Barcelona and she is currently completing the Master's Degree in Pre-care and Family from the Ramón Llull University.
During the year 2016 she undertook a research doctorate in the Dutch Connectome Lab from the Brain Center Rudolf Magnus of the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands.
Since 2018 she has been an Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona.
She currently works in Carrilet Treatment Center as a psychologist developing neuropsychological evaluation and intervention tasks
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Last Publications
- Caldú X, Reid LB, Pannek K, Fripp J, Ballester J, Leiva D, Boyd RN, Pueyo R and Laporta O Tractography of sensorimotor pathways in dyskinetic cerebral palsy: Association with motor function. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology . 11(10): 2609-2622.
- García-Galant M, Blasco M, Moral-Salicrú P, Soldevilla J, Ballester J, Laporta O, Caldú X, Miralbell J, Xenia Alonso, Toro-Tamargo E, Meléndez-Plumed M, Gimeno F, Leiva D, Boyd RN and Pueyo R Understanding social cognition in children with cerebral palsy: exploring the relationship with executive functions and the intervention outcomes in a randomized controlled trial. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS . 183(9): 3997-4008.
- García-Galant M, Blasco M, Laporta O, Berenguer-González A, Moral-Salicrú P, Ballester J, Caldú X, Miralbell J, Xenia Alonso, Medina J, Elsa Povedano Bulló, Leiva D, Boyd RN and Pueyo R A randomized controlled trial of a home-based computerized executive function intervention for children with cerebral palsy EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS . 182(10): 4351-4363.