José M. Delgado-García is a Spanish psychiatrist and an academic. He is a professor emeritus at Pablo de Olavide University.
Delgado-García's research has focused on learning, motor control, memory, neural motor systems, eye movement, and facial motor systems. his work has received 17000 citations and his h-index was recorded as 70. He was elected as an academic member of the 2022 International Union of Physiological Science. Education Delgado-García completed his bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery from the University of Seville from 1963 to 1969, followed by a doctorate in 1972 from the same institution. Career Delgado-García initially worked as an assistant professor at the University of Seville between 1970 and 1972, followed by working as the interim associate professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid between 1972 and 1975. In 1978, he was the interim aggregate professor at the University of Seville, followed by an appointment as a tenured associate professor at the same institution between 1978 and 1986. In 1986, he was promoted to a professor there. In 2000, he joined Pablo de Olavide University as a tenured full professor, and in 2015, he became an emeritus professor there.
Delgado-García's administrative and professional appointments include working as a director of the Department of Physiology and Animal Biology between 1989 and 1994 at the University of Seville, as well as the principal investigator at the Andalusian Laboratory of Biology between 1997 and 2003. Additionally, between 2008 and 2015, he was director of the Animal Research Facility at Pablo de Olavide University. Moreover, since 1997, he has been the director of the division of neurosciences at Pablo de Olavide University. Research Through his research, Delgado-Garcia has studied the neural mechanisms of memory and learning, specifically the role of cerebellar and hippocampal circuits in associative learning. His work on trace eyeblink conditioning as a model for examining the neural basis of memory formation and learning-related synaptic plasticity has been studied in independent studies. A major part of his research has studied variations in hippocampal CA3–CA1 synaptic transmission during learning. Independent reviews of his works have acknowledged that learning correlates with measurable changes in synaptic strength and that experimentally disrupting CA3-CA1 plasticity interferes with the acquisition of learned response.
Delgado-García's work has also focused on the neural control of conditioned eyelid responses. His research, wherein he identified that specific classes of neurons within the interpositus nucleus respond differently to eyelid opening and closure during the eyeblink conditioning, has also been reported in independent studies. Moreover, independent studies further highlighted his work on neuronal populations differentially regulating learned eyelids, further stating that some neurons are associated with eyelid openings and other with eyelid closure.
Awards and honors 2022 – Elected Academic Member, International Union of Physiological Science Selected publications
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