About 40 % of the affected patients with Huntington’s disease –a neurodegenerative pathology- show depression symptoms, even in early stages before the apparition of the typical motor symptoms of ...
Last week, the Institute of Neurosciences UB sponsored the Pint of Science Festival in Barcelona. Pint of Science is a non-profit organization that brings some exceptional scientists to a local pub to...
The 2019 edition of the NeuroArt concluded last Friday with an exhibition of the art pieces at the Science Festival of the UB. More than a thousand of people were able to admire the different pieces a...
The Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona has awarded 23 grants to early stage researchers to attend National and International Congresses. The grants result in a total funding of ...
The program ICREA Acadèmia 2018 . The program ICREA Academia 2018 has honoured the scientific career of nineteen researchers of the University of Barcelona in the framework of the edition ...
GRIN-related disorders are an ultra-rare neuropaediatric condition, with approximately 500 cases diagnosed worldwide. These disorders are a set of neurological conditions that alter the development of...
A study led by a team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the UBidentified greater cortical thickness in the frontal lobe in a group of old people with high levels of education (15 or more years o...
Dr. Carles Escera is the principal investigator of Brainlab, which belongs to the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona. The aim of this research group is to identify cognitive mec...
The directors of 27 research centers, including the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB, state the alarming situation of Spanish scientific research in a letter published by EL PAÍS. “The...
A mutation in the gen that codes the ionic channel TRESK –involved in the control of neuron irritability- causes the dysfunction of some neurons that increase neuronal activity and induce migraine p...
Applying immersive virtual reality technology in the rehabilitation of brain damage Virtual Bodyworks, a spin-off of the University of Barcelona (UB), the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Instit...
NeuroArt, teaching Science and Art together Arts and Sciences are apparently far from each other but they can be quite close sometimes. Scientific dissemination and citizen science are paving the way ...
Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona and the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) studied the synchronization of speech motor rhythms, i.e. the c...
Teaching the value of Virtual Reality (VR) in Scientific Research From February 26 to March 2, the University of Barcelona took part for the third year in a row in the Festival YoMo Barcelona, or...
Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona have identified a potential therapeutic strategy to treat Alzheimer’s, according to a study published in Journal o...
A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), reveals a causal link between dopamine and the reward responses in humans when listening to music. The study w...
New findings on autoantibodies targeting synaptic proteins have been recently published in Neuron and BRAIN journals by researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences and IDIBAPS. Both articles have ...
On November 22nd, the Institute opened the doors of its laboratories to high school students. The activity was part of the municipal program Escolab, which aims to show high school students the resear...
The INPhINIT fellowship programme 2019 is now open and accepting applications. The 16 calls from the UB Institute of Neurosciences can be found through this link. This call is a la Caixa Foundation do...
One of the most important and surprising traits of the brain is its ability to reconfigure dynamically the connections to process and respond properly to stimuli. Researchers from Tohoku University (S...