Carmen de Labra is a Psychology Graduate by Universidad Santiago de Compostela (Extraodinary End of Studies Prize), PhD in Neurosciences by Universidade da Coruña, especialty in Cognitive Neurosciences (Master's Degree Scholarship of Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte). She did postdoctoral research in Oftalmology Institute in the University College London, thanks to a postdoctoral scholarship of Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. She completed these courses in Marine Biological Laboratory of Woods Hole, MA, USA. She was an investigator of the Program Isidro Parga Pondal with NEUROcom and she finished her education in the Instituto de Neurociencia by Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Currently she is a Physiology Teacher in Universidade da Coruña. 

Scientific Interests

Her PhD was focused on studying neural correlates of conscious perception of visual stimulus in humans, using non-invasive neurophysiology techniques such as electroencephalography. In her postdoctoral phase, she studied, from a pharmacological and neurophysiological point of view, the connections retino-thalamic and cortical-thalamic in vivo and neurotransmitters involved. In order to do that, she combined extracellular neuronal record techniques with the injection of drugs by iontophoresis and the transcranial magnetic stimulation. This education was completed with the course "Neural Systems & Behavior" in the Marine Biological Laboratory, where she was familiar to the advanced electrophysiological techniques: intracellular records, cellular staining, patch clamp, voltage clamp, plasticity analysis and synaptic transmission and cellular cultives. All of it focused on the study of different experimental approaches. Her current line of investigation is focused on studying the ffects of feedback connections in the regulation of the neuronal response and the use of neuromodulation techniques in the treatment of epilepsy.