The molecule NCAM2, a glycoprotein from the superfamily of immunoglobulins, is a vital factor in the formation of the cerebral cortex, neuronal morphogenesis and formation of neuronal circuits in the ...
Injuries in the peripheral nervous system are an important health problem and their treatment is now a challenge for medicine. A great part of the current treatments is based on surgery, but these int...
On Thursday, February 27, the cycle Debats UB: Feminism (s) starts. It will last for months and will treat questions such as gender and the human brain, the history and current state of feminist ...
A multidisciplinary study led by UB researchers has developed a new experimental tool that enables the application of focalized damage on an in vitro neuronal network of only a few millimetr...
En el marc de la X Esteve Foundation Discussion Group, el passat 13 i 14 de febrer es va celebrar a la Universitat de Barcelona la desena reunió del grup de treball sobre nous avenços en el cam...
El projecte ETCONNECT, liderat per l’equip de la Dra. Roser Pueyo (Institut de Neurociències de la Universitat de Barcelona, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu ), té com a objectiu comp...
Tauopathies are a group of neurodegenerative diseases known for the accumulation of the phosphorylated Tau protein, i.e. Tau associated with phosphate groups. In this set of pathologies –such as Alz...
Promoting the signalling pathway of reelin –an essential extracellular protein for the neuronal migration and synaptic plasticity- could be an effective therapeutical strategy to counterbalance the ...
El Dr. Antonio Andrés Pueyo forma part del Grup d’Estudis Avançats en Violència (GEAV) de la Universitat de Barcelona. El GEAV va ser guardonat per la Fundació Bosch i Gimpera amb el premi Anton...
Una recerca amb la participació de Joan Guàrdia, catedràtic del departament de Psicologia Social i Psicologia Quantitativa i investigador de l’Institut de Neurociències i de l’Institut de...
An article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) describes a new pathway in the central nervous system to expel waste substances from the brain through the crea...
Jimena Baleriola is a Group Leader- Ramón y Cajal Fellow (Ikerbasque Research Fellow in leave of absence) from Laboratory of Local Translation in Neurons and Glia (former Axon-Glia Interactions) at A...
One year after the achievement of the María de Maeztu Excellence award, it’s time to look back and evaluate the actions taken in 2019 to strengthen the strategy of the Institute. During this year w...
On the 29th of November 2019, the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona hosted the IV annu...
Are you interested in doing your PhD at the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona? Check out our offers within “la Caixa” doctoral fellowships at www.fellowships.lacaix...
Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona and the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) described a mechanism, the increase of proteinaceous s...
A total of three PhD students were awarded the prestigious INPhINIT doctoral fellowship in order to carry out their exciting research projects at the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Ba...
The memory of specific episodes is the base of autobiographical memory, but we do not know how the brain structures the experience to remember it in the long run. A team of the Faculty of Psychology o...
Attention, reading and writing, working memory, numerical processing, and calculation are key cognitive processes that control learning. Low performance in these processes is related to school failure...
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) has published a new report on how to improve patients’ access to Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) in medical centers and university hos...