HN was born (dec 26th,1961) and raised in Mexico City. He attended his elementary and high school studies in a Catholic school (Instituto México-CUM). Also, he had during this period a training in latin-percussions. He obtained his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma of México... Read more

HN was born (dec 26th,1961) and raised in Mexico City. He attended his elementary and high school studies in a Catholic school (Instituto México-CUM). Also, he had during this period a training in latin-percussions. He obtained his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma of México (UNAM), School of Medicine. At the end of his medical studies he started to participate in Psychiatric research under the mentorship of Juan Ramón De la Fuente (Current Dean of the UNAM). When he finished his medical studies he went into his residency in Psychiatry at the Spanish Hospital in Mexico City, then he decided to train in Genetics and moved to Los Angeles in the USA for a postdoctoral training at the Neuropsychiatric Institute in the University of California (UCLA) Medical Genetics Training fellowship, USA, under the mentorship of M. Anne Spence, Ph.D . His main contribution during that time was to describe a possible genetic basis for obsessive compulsive disorder. In 1991 he goes back to Mexico and started the first psychiatric molecular genetics research lab in Latino-América where a group of researchers have been trained. During the next decades his main lines of research were on the genetics of several conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, obesity, autism and pharmacogenetics. More recently he moved to the Mexico´s city Autonomous University to the center of Genomics and started to collaborate with the PET Unit at the UNAM using functional neuroimaging and genetics as research tools. Dr. H Nicolini has ongoing research collaborations with University of San Antonio in Texas USA, Clarke Center for Addictions and Mental Health in Toronto Canada, and Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain. He has received research awards from the OCD Foundation (USA), Tourette Foundation (USA), The National Institute of Mental Health (USA), UNESCO-Spain, Fundación Miguel Alemán (México) and CONACYT (México). Finally, he is a member of several scientific societies (Member of the steering committee of the NHSN-NIDA, former president of of the Mexican Association of Molecular Biology in Medicine, and current Medical President of the Mexican Association for OCD) also he serves as part of the editorial boards in the following journals: Open Psychiatry Journal, Current Psychiatric Opinions, Annals of ClinicalPsychiatry, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, “Boletín NotiTOC, (México), Revista Brasileira do Psiquiatría, CNS Spectrums journal, Psiquiatría y Salud Integral, Latinoamérica.

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