Higher education does not influence brain ageing
A new study from the Lifebrain consortium, coordinated by the University of Oslo with the participation of the University of Barcelona, finds that higher education does not slow brain ageing, con...
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April 26, 2021Can a newborn’s brain discriminate speech sounds?
People’s ability to perceive speech sounds has been deeply studied, specially during someone’s first year of life, but what happens during the first hours after birth? Are babies born with innate ...
April 20, 2021Researchers find the cause of degeneration in Lafora disease
Lafora disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disease which is initially developed with epileptic crises during adolescence and it evolves with a progressive degeneration of the nervous system unti...
April 9, 2021A new international consortium to promote Stem Cell-Based Therapy for Huntington’s disease
The Stem Cells for Huntington’s Disease (SC4HD) is a new international consortium created to promote advanced therapy medicinal product (ATMP) through cell transplantation studies on Huntin...
March 29, 2021Dual therapy for neuropathic pain
Neuropathic pain is produced by an injury or condition causing a dysfunction of the central or peripheral nervous system, instead of coming from sensory pain receptors. This condition has an enormous ...
March 25, 2021Researchers identify a potential biomarker for Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative disease that features movement disorders such as tremor, stiffness, slowness of movements or postural instability. Although it is the second most common neurodegen...
March 15, 2021The Institute of Neurosciences UB launches a new corporate video
Would you like to know more about the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona? Watch the video below! The Institute of Neurosciences is a frontrunner in international neuroscience re...
February 26, 2021The first Women in Neuroscience symposium gathers people from all around the world
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...
February 23, 2021New therapeutic target for Huntington’s treatment
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...
February 19, 2021ICREA Academia 2020 program awards five UB researchers
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...
February 1, 2021Researchers describe molecular mechanism involved in Huntington’s neurodegeneration
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...
January 29, 2021Stem cell AI – ‘brain on a chip’ project aims to revolutionise computing power
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...
January 25, 2021AIGecko Technologies is born, artificial intelligence at the service of image recognition
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...
December 23, 2020NEUROPA: new innovative European project to treat neurodegenerative diseases with laser light
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...
December 23, 2020Researchers discover a new biomarker candidate to diagnose ALS cases in early stages
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...
December 17, 2020How does immersive reality affect implicit racial bias?
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...
December 9, 2020Researchers identify an action mechanism for a drug against Alzheimer‘ disease
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...
December 3, 2020L’Institut de Neurociències UB reb més d’1,5 milions d’euros per la recerca de malalties minoritàries gràcies a La Marató de TV3
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...
November 23, 2020Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute recognized as CERCA center
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...
November 11, 2020Optogenetic stimulation improves alterations in movement and behaviour of experimental models with Huntington’s disease
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 ...