Mitofusin 2 is a key protein in the regulation of the physiology of mitochondria ─cellular organelles that produce energy─ involved in several neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, as wel...
La Caixa Foundation announced today the thirty projects that were selected in the call CaixaResearch on Health Research 2021. These are excellence projects on biomedicine and research on health p...
Last Thursday 15th of July, the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona held a meeting for all young researchers to help them push their careers to the next level. ...
Recent studies led by Dr. Raúl Estévez from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona, have resulted in the identification of the genes responsible for two types of brain develop...
Research has shown that listening to music daily improves language recovery in patients who have experienced a stroke. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon have so far remained unk...
Del 29 de Junio al 1 de Julio se desarrollará la primera acción de la European Performing Science Night 2021 en la sede de la Fundación Épica La Fura dels Baus. Se trata de un taller en el que par...
The LSL60101 compound, a specific ligand of the I2-IR receptors in the brain, could shed light on the development of future strategies against Alzheimer’s disease. This is stated in the recent studi...
Dr. Raúl Estévez, group leader of the Institut of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona and IDIBELL, has led an investigation that has identified the GlialCAM protein interactome, whose...
A study led by researchers of the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB (UBNeuro) has determined the levels of the RTp801 protein increase in the hippocampal formation in post-mortem samples ...
La Marató de TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio in 2020, dedicated to COVID-19, will give 12.5 million euros to fund 36 excellence biomedical research projects to improve the quality and life expectancy of peo...
On June 22, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., the University of Barcelona is holding the session “The exploration (and exploitation) of space”. The objective of this meeting is to tackle the theme...
Stereotypes are knowledge structures integrated in our world representation, which have an influence on our decisions and which are hard to change. A team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the Un...
A study carried out by UB, IDIBELL, ICO and Bellvitge University Hospital shows that exercise does not only prevent the loss of neuronal tissue caused by chemotherapy and radi...
The lockdown policies that resulted from the COVID-19 epidemic involved an important decrease in urban crimes, except for homicides, according to a paper published in the journalNature Human Behaviour...
With the presentation of her thesis on adult neurogenesis, Alba Ortega, doctoral student at the Faculty of Biology and the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB, will represent the University of Barcel...
La obesidad durante la infancia y la adolescencia está asociada con consecuencias médicas y psicológicas, así como con un incremento del riesgo de comorbilidades o incluso muerte, al alcanzar la e...
Dr. Eduard Vieta, head of the Psychiatry and Psychology Service at the Hospital Clínic, researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona, head of the IDIBAPS research...
A new study from the Lifebrain consortium, coordinated by the University of Oslo with the participation of the University of Barcelona, finds that higher education does not slow brain ageing, con...
People’s ability to perceive speech sounds has been deeply studied, specially during someone’s first year of life, but what happens during the first hours after birth? Are babies born with innate ...
Lafora disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disease which is initially developed with epileptic crises during adolescence and it evolves with a progressive degeneration of the nervous system unti...