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 ...
A multidisciplinary study led by UB researchers has developed a new experimental tool that enables the application of focalized damage on an in vitro neuronal network of only a few millimetr...
En el marc de la X Esteve Foundation Discussion Group, el passat 13 i 14 de febrer es va celebrar a la Universitat de Barcelona la desena reunió del grup de treball sobre nous avenços en el cam...
El projecte ETCONNECT, liderat per l’equip de la Dra. Roser Pueyo (Institut de Neurociències de la Universitat de Barcelona, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu ), té com a objectiu comp...
Tauopathies are a group of neurodegenerative diseases known for the accumulation of the phosphorylated Tau protein, i.e. Tau associated with phosphate groups. In this set of pathologies –such as Alz...
Promoting the signalling pathway of reelin –an essential extracellular protein for the neuronal migration and synaptic plasticity- could be an effective therapeutical strategy to counterbalance the ...