A UB study published in the journal Neurotherapeutics has validated a new pharmacological target for Alzheimer’s disease. The results show the inhibition of the enzyme soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) in murine models… Read More from UB study identifies a new pharmacological target against Alzheimer’s disease
Can you imagine being able to see your self-image with a pair of virtual reality or 3D glasses? Mind and Identity, a new spin-off of the University of Barcelona, has developed… Read More from Explore Your Meanings: Virtual Reality to Revolutionize Psychological Therapies
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… Read More from Braingaze will make its ADHD therapy video game accessible from home
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… Read More from The UB takes part in a study on the COVID-19 and lockdown psychological consequences in Spanish population
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 is… Read More from Researchers find a new plasticity mechanism in neural connections
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 activity of… Read More from Researchers identify two marine molecules with therapy potential against Alzheimer’s disease
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 virtual… Read More from Virtual reality to reduce stress and anxiety levels caused by the lockdown
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… Read More from first approach to gene therapy for MLC disease in preclinical models
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… Read More from Carme Uribe from the Institute of Neurosciences is awarded a MSCA Global Fellowship
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,… Read More from A group of international researchers warns about the ethical dangers of ultrarealistic Virtual and Augmented Reality
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 stroke…. Read More from Researchers use cell therapy to restore damaged brain areas in rats that suffered a stroke
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 study which… Read More from A team from the UB and IBUB describe an unknown route of assembly and ionic channel traffic in cardiac cells