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, contrary to the popular belief. This study has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National...
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 abilities to perceive speech sounds, or do neural encoding processes need to age for...
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 until it causes death after ten years of its first onset. It is featured by the accumulation of...
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 Huntington’s Disease. The entity, made up of twenty-eight renowned researchers from ten countries, has been officially presented in a recent publication...
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 emotional and economic impact, affecting between 7% and 10% of the population at some...
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 neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s, there is no reliable molecular biomarker to diagnose this pathology. A fragment of a G protein-coupled...
Would you like to know more about the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona? Watch the video below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4x7oUVHsrk The Institute of Neurosciences is a frontrunner in international neuroscience research, being one of the few institutes in the world that investigates the brain at...
El cervell es conforma d’una xarxa complexa de neurones que es connecten entre elles amb l’ajuda d’altres tipus cel·lulars. Les neurones es comuniquen entre elles mitjançant neurotransmissors, que són unes molècules que indiquen a la següent neurona com ha d’actuar per garantir el funcionament correcte...
La supervivència està lligada a la capacitat d’emmagatzemar informació d’esdeveniments passats per a poder actuar en situacions futures. La capacitat d’emmagatzemar nova informació es coneix com aprenentatge i la informació guardada com memòria. Segons la rellevància, el cervell utilitza diferents estratègies, àrees i recursos per a emmagatzemar...
Tot el coneixement que tenim de l’univers, tota forma d’art, tota interacció social, tot el que fas, el que penses, el record del que has viscut, el que sents i el que desitges, són fruits de l’activitat cerebral. Avui dia ho donem per fet, tot i que encara ens...