Ramiro Salas

Ramiro Salas is an Associate Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, affiliated with the Center for Translational Research on Inflammatory Diseases (CTRID) and the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research focuses on human brain imaging to study drug addiction, depression, anxiety, autism, and related conditions. He integrates genetic and clinical data with neuroimaging to advance psychiatric diagnostics and personalized treatment.

Dr. Salas' work emphasizes neuropharmacology and microbiome-brain interactions, particularly in understanding reward/disappointment processing and inflammation-related neural connectivity. His recent publications highlight applications of machine learning to neuroimaging datasets from consortia like ENIGMA, spanning topics such as suicidality prediction, impulse regulation, and neurodegenerative disorders.

Key trends in his research include connectome-based modeling, KCNQ channel modulation therapies, and multimodal assessment of psychiatric biomarkers. He has contributed to understanding brain structure alterations in youth with internalizing/externalizing disorders and gut-brain axis mechanisms in depressive disorders. His work bridges computational neuroscience and clinical psychiatry, with implications for personalized mental health interventions.