An article published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry reveals the molecular mechanisms to explain how the YWHAZ gene –related to psychiatric and neurological disorders such as autism and schizophrenia– can alter the neurodevelopmental process. The study, which uses a zebrafish as animal model, is led by the experts Noèlia Fernàndez-Castillo...
Fibromyalgia is a rheumatological disease of unknown origin, which features a chronic pain, and it usually goes together with depression symptoms. It mainly affects women and does not have a cure, although several treatments can alleviate the symptoms. Cognitive-behavioural psychological therapty is one of the...
La profesora emérita de la UB María Teresa Anguera ha sido investida doctora honoris causa este viernes, 29 de abril, por la Universidad de La Laguna. Durante la ceremonia de investidura, Carmen Rosa Sánchez López, profesora titular del Departamento de Psicología Clínica, Psicobiología y Metodología,...
Mercè Pallàs mentioned to encourage researchers to go from the “nice to know” to the “need to know” when facing transfer knowledge, this was one of the useful advices that raised during the transfer workshop “From Lab to Hub” organized by the Institute of Neurosciences...
Creatio’s staff are involved in the white paper that sets the challenges to translate the substantial advances made in cell therapy to patient benefit. The report has been published this month at the prestigious journal Brain. Dr. Josep M. Canals, Dr. Unai Perpiña and Dr. Cristina Salado participated, as Creatio representatives, with the definition of the 7 challenges to overcome for the clinical translation of cell therapy in Huntington’s disease. The report,...
Alba Ortega, doctoral Student of the program on Biomedicine, will represent the University of Barcelona in the Coimbra Group contest “3-Minute Thesis”. The student was chosen out of several researchers in an event on Monday, March 28, where Elisabeth Martinez, from the program on Engineering...
In an article published in the journal Neural Regeneration Research, Daniel Tornero, a researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience of the Universitat de Barcelona, explained the current state of stem cell therapy for brain damage repair. Specifically, he has analysed the mechanism by which transplanted stem cells are able to...
One of them, Alex Taylor will carry his research at UBneuro The researchers of the University of Barcelona Karim Lekadir, Alex Taylor and Isabel Almudí will carry out their research thanks to three consolidator grants given by the European Research Council (ERC). Today, the institution...
This year 17 schools from around Catalonia participated in this edition with 32 differents artworks. The past 15th March, we organized the 2022 NeuroArt Gala at the CCCB. It was a very expected event as after two years we could hold a face-to-face Gala where the students could...
The cellular prion protein (PrPC), a protein in the surface of the neuronal cells, is imbalanced in human patients with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease. However, the knowledge on the participation of PrPC in these pathologies contrasts with many reported data on...