The first Women in Neuroscience symposium organized by the PhD students of the Brainlab – Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group with the support of the Institute of Neurosciences at the Universi...
Huntington’s disease is caused by a mutation in the Huntingtin gene (HTT), which appears in adults and features motor, cognitive and psychiatric alterations. The origin of this disease has been asso...
The grant program ICREA Academia 2020 has awarded five experts of the UB in a call that selected about thirty researchers from different knowledge fields framed within the Catalan university...
Protein alteration in the family of lamins causes several diseases, known as laminopathies, such as progeria or precocious ageing. A study in which UB researchers have taken part states that alteratio...
NEU-ChiP project, headed at the University of Barcelona by Daniel Tornero (researcher at the Institute of Neurosciences and IDIBAPS) and Jordi Soriano (researcher at UBICS), aims to develop microchips...
Deep learning is a field of artificial intelligence that in recent years has revolutionized the market and our daily lives in aspects such as automatic driving, artificial vision or virtual assistants...
The research group for Monitoring and Modulation of Brain Circuits in Brain Diseases of the Institute of Neurosciences (UBNeuro) led by Dr. Mercè Masana participates in the NEUROPA project. The proje...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative disease which affects the neurons that control the muscular tissue. As the disease progresses, these motoneurons stop working and end up dying, wh...
Implicit racial bias refers to the automatic non-conscious behaviours, even if one’s explicit attitude is not biased at all. Several studies have shown these prejudices are reduced in white people a...
A study conducted on mice published in the journalGeroscience has identified the action mechanism of a promising compound against Alzheimer’s disease, developed by the team of Medical Chem...
L’Institut de Neurociències de la Universitat de Barcelona ajudarà en l‘avanç de la recerca de malalties minoritàries tals com la Neurofibromatosi i el Huntington gràcies al finançamen...
The Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute (IRSJD), which counts on the participation of the University of Barcelona, has been recognized by the board of trustees of the Institution for Research Centers...
Huntington’s disease is an hereditary neurodegenerative disease featured by alterations in movement, cognitive deficiency and psychiatric disorders resulting from the degeneration of neurons in the ...
Anti-NMDAR encephalitis is an autoimmune brain illness that is often mistaken by a psychiatric disorder since it causes psychoses and other behaviour alterations. Despite having these similarities, th...
The lack of some genes in the BEC/TCEAL cluster could be related to some alterations associated with the autism spectrum disorder, according to a preclinical study published in the journal&n...
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 ...