People with more aggressive and psychopathic tendencies adopt hostile behaviours quickly, but they find it difficult to leave them when they are no longer adaptive or practical. Although this was alre...
A successful event organized by the PhD Committee of the Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona This past thursday, 8th of June, the PhD Committee of the Institute of Neurosciences of the...
Huntington’s disease is a genetically-based neurodegenerative disorder that causes motor, cognitive and psychiatric disorders in the affected individuals. Understanding the alterations in the neural...
Today, Wednesday, May 31, the welfare room was inaugurated at the Bellvitge Campus, a pioneering initiative in the Catalan university scene, promoted by the Vice-Rector’s Office of Equal Opportuniti...
Congratulations are in order! As announced at the CRG webpage, The Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona has offered one full fellowship, which will cover for the traveling and the...
Mel Slater, researcher at the University of Barcelona and member of the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB (UBneuro), leads the first European Metaverse Research Network (ERMN). This network inclu...
This year the Science Festival of the University of Barcelona reaches its ninth edition and offers more workshops than ever, a total of 67, in which researchers from the Institute and a wide range of ...
The psychiatrist Eduard Vieta, the epidemiologist and paediatrician Quique Bassat and the economist Judit Vall have been awarded the 10th UB Doctors’ Senate and Board of Trustees’ Award to th...
The results of the European Research Council‘s (ERC) Proof of Concept grants, which fund projects by researchers who have been previously awarded ERC grants, have been published today. Mel ...
Generating new memories and remembering are two sides of the same coin, although sometimes they can appear as separate mechanisms. These mechanisms which seem to be distanced from each other are actua...
This past Friday, 28th April, the University of Barcelona hosts the XX Technical Conference on Huntington’s Disease, organized together with the Catalan Association of Huntington’s Patient...
The new protocol, published in Nature Neuroscience, defines the parameters for optimum identification of functional networks through resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI)...
Language acquisition is a complex process that requires different neural and cognitive skills since early childhood. One of children’s big challenges in language learning is to distinguish the words...
When pregnant women sing to their babies or listen to music on loudspeakers during their pregnancy, babies are born with a better ability for neuronal encoding of speech sounds. This is one of the mai...
How is the mammals’ heart formed? What role do endothelial cells play? Do the same pathways and genes involved in the formation of the embryonic heart also play a role in repair processes? A new stu...
This year 17 schools from around Catalonia participated in this edition Arts and Sciences are apparently far from each other but they can be quite close sometimes. Scientific dissemination and citizen...
On the 10th of February 2023, the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona hosted the VI annual PhD Workshop at Campus Clinic. The workshop session started with an opening ceremony by...
After the achievement of being granted once again the María de Maeztu Excellence award, it’s the time to turn in the assessment on the actions taken and present the strategic plan for the next...
Research groups of the Institute Institute of Neurosciences participate in the “Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu”, which became CERCA institute in 2020. The Governing Council...
The project Uncovering the human subcortical pathway for auditory threat detection (HumanSUBthreat), funded with 1.9 million euros. The results of the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grants...