Huntington’s disease is known for a mutation in the Huntingtin gen. Patients show involuntary movements, cognitive deficits and specific psychiatric disorders of the disease, which result from the d...
A team of researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences (UBNeuro) and Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS) has demonstrated that neurons can be generated from skin cells of a human donor using a cel...
A UB study published in the journal Neurotherapeutics has validated a new pharmacological target for Alzheimer’s disease. The results show the inhibition of the enzyme soluble epoxide hydr...
This year the winners of NeuroArt were chosen in an online poll. 1st prize – El daltonisme (3r ESO, Institut Els Roures) Autors: Bel Perarnau, Ariadna Mas, Laia Garcia i Estel Puig With this wor...
Can you imagine being able to see your self-image with a pair of virtual reality or 3D glasses? Mind and Identity, a new spin-off of the University of Barcelona, has developed a new digital tool ...
Braingaze, a spin-off from the University of Barcelona, will make its video game BGaze Therapy, developed to improve the care skills of children with ADHD, accessible from any tablet with a fron...
A research project on the psychological consequences of COVID-19 and the lockdown in Spain states that 78% of the population has observed an increase of feelings of uncertainty, while a 46% has felt t...
Neurons are able to detect the loss of autaptic synapsis -established by themselves- and recover the reduction of nervous neurotransmission through the formation and promotion of new connections. This...
An interdisciplinary research study of the UB identified two potential candidates to treat Alzheimer’s disease. These are two marine molecules, meridianine and lignarenone B, able to alter the activ...
Living the coronavirus situation means going through a global health emergency but also having to cope with extreme psychological stress which tests our identity and our relationships. A self-help vir...
A study involving the U750 CIBERER led by Raúl Estévez from the University of Barcelona-IDIBELL and IP of the Physiology And Pathology Of The Glia-Neurona Functional Relation group at the Institute ...
Carme Uribe, who did her PhD at the CJNeuroLab, has been awarded a MSCA Global Fellowship that she will carry out at the Research Imaging Centre at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto ...
Research on virtual reality started in the eighties, but it is now that good quality is available to the public and it can become a mass consumer product soon. However, there is almost no scientific k...
Researchers from Lund University (Sweeden) and the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona have restored, using cell therapy, the mobility and sensibility of rats that suffered a str...
Ionic channels -integral proteins in the cell membrane- are essential in several processes such as cardiac activity, nervous transmission, cell proliferation and the regulation of blood pressure. A st...
An article published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry shows a new family of molecules with high affinity to join imidazoline receptors, which are altered in the brain of those patients ...
Ernest Arenas, member of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to tailor dopamine-producing brain...
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 ...