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November 21, 2017 In News By UCCi Divulgacio

A session analyses the application of neurosciences in the field of Law and Public Management and Criminology

[caption id="attachment_4504" align="alignleft" width="300"] The session will take place in the Faculty of Law.[/caption] Can we apply neuroscience techniques, such as the waves detected in an electroencephalogram, when questioning the accused ones in a trial? Can public policies be more efficient if neuroscience research is considered...

November 17, 2017 In News By UCCi Divulgacio

“Collaboration between different areas is very important to be competitive and produce new knowledge”

[caption id="attachment_4470" align="alignleft" width="300"] Per Svenningson, professor from Karolinska Instituet (Sweden).[/caption] The Eurolife Autumn Symposium took place on the 24th and 25th of October, and was organized by the University of Barcelona, the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB and the master’s degree in Neurosciences. Researcher Per...

November 2, 2017 In News By UCCi Divulgacio

La Marató 2016 gives the grants for research on ictus and traumatic spinal cord and brain injuries

[caption id="attachment_4418" align="alignright" width="300"] Researchers awarded in the 2016 edition for la Marató de TV3[/caption] The 2016 edition for la Marató de TV3, dedicated to research on ictus and traumatic spinal cord and brain injuries, has given a total of 11,3 million euros to 70 research teams. La...

October 27, 2017 In News, Success Story By UCCi Divulgacio

Cristina Malagelada: “It is possible to know the time and severity in which a patient with Parkinson’s will have dyskinesia”

The research group led by Dr Cristina Malagelada, from the Department of Biomedicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the UB, has conducted a method to predict in which way dyskinesia will affect each patient with Parkinson’s. The group recently received a VALUNI...

October 20, 2017 In News By UCCi Divulgacio

Eurolife Autumn Symposium: A journey through Neuroscience

On Tuesday, October 24, the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the UB will hold the Eurolife symposium “A journey through Neuroscience”. This symposium gathers Eurolife university network, the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB and their respective members, as well...

October 18, 2017 In News By UCCi Divulgacio

Researchers identify neural mechanisms that strengthen or weaken memories during sleep

A study led by the University of Barcelona has identified the process in the brain which strengthens or weakens memories of our daily events while we sleep. According to the study published in the scientific journal The Journal of Neuroscience, the brain reactivates networks of...

June 29, 2017 In News By UCCi Divulgacio

Researchers find functional change in brains of patients with type 1 diabetes

The Advanced statistical techniques applied to psychology research group, lead by Dr. Joan Guàrdia, has identified functional changes related to activation patterns in the brain of type 1 diabetes patients. The research group of the Institute of Neurosciences also belongs to the Institute of Complex Systems ( UBICS...

June 20, 2017 In News By UCCi Divulgacio

Annual Report 2016

The report shows the launch of the new institute giving detail of the objectives, aims and goals to be reached. The main activities of 2016 are summarized, as well as the opening session in the Medicine Campus and the PhD Workshop, organized last December. In 2016,...

June 16, 2017 In News By UCCi Divulgacio

Barcelona holds the new edition of the National Meeting of the Spanish Society of Pharmacology

The National Meeting of Pharmacology will host more than two hundred lectures in six plenary conferences, apart from symposiums, oral and poster presentations. The 37th National Meeting of the Spanish Society of Pharmacology (SEF) is a science summit with the participation of international experts of the field,...

June 14, 2017 In News By UCCi Divulgacio

Pyk2 deficit modulates cognitive alterations in Huntington’s disease

Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences and from IDIBAPS together with a team from the University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC, France) and the Institute du Fer à Moulin have published a study in Nature Communications. The study demonstrates that the regulation in Pyk2, a protein-tyrosine...