When pregnant women sing to their babies or listen to music on loudspeakers during their pregnancy, babies are born with a better ability for neuronal encoding of speech sounds. This… Read More from Listening to music during pregnancy benefits the baby’s brain’s ability to encode speech sounds
How is the mammals’ heart formed? What role do endothelial cells play? Do the same pathways and genes involved in the formation of the embryonic heart also play a role… Read More from Wt1 gene to be a key factor in the endothelial cell during the formation of new coronary vessels
This year 17 schools from around Catalonia participated in this edition Arts and Sciences are apparently far from each other but they can be quite close sometimes. Scientific dissemination and… Read More from New NeuroArt Gala VI
After the achievement of being granted once again the María de Maeztu Excellence award, it’s the time to turn in the assessment on the actions taken and present the strategic plan… Read More from SAB MEETING
Research groups of the Institute Institute of Neurosciences participate in the “Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu”, which became CERCA institute in 2020. The Governing Council of the Institute… Read More from Dr. Joan Comella, new director of the Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu
The project Uncovering the human subcortical pathway for auditory threat detection (HumanSUBthreat), funded with 1.9 million euros. The results of the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grants have been published today…. Read More from Judith Domínguez Borràs, ERC Consolidator
The results contrast with those of 4 previous independent clinical trials and could provide relevant information on the role of iron accumulation in the process of neurodegeneration. Treatment with deferiprone… Read More from Research provides new clues about iron toxicity in Parkinson’s disease and explains the paradoxical effect of deferiprone
A team of researchers from the University of Barcelona, the UB Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro) and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has created the first highly mature neurons… Read More from A new synthetic matrix to grow mature neurons and study neurodegenerative diseases
Studies on diseases that affect the human brain are usually based on animal models which cannot reproduce the complexity of human neuropathies. Therefore, these methodologies often fail when applied in… Read More from Cellular reprogramming can generate neural networks that reproduce unique characteristics of human cells
Every year, about a third of all food produced in the world —about 1.3 billion tonnes— is wasted in consumers’ homes and retail businesses, according to the United Nations (UN)…. Read More from A study analyses the perception and knowledge of food sustainability at the University of Barcelona
Researchers of the Faculty of Psychology, the Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro) and the Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS) of the University of Barcelona have identified, using functional magnetic resonance techniques,… Read More from Researchers identify differences in the spontaneous brain activity in people with Down syndrome
A new study led by UB researchers shows that wasteosomes —structures that act as containers for brain waste products— indicate a malfunction of the glymphatic system, a recently discovered system… Read More from New marker related to the dysfunction of the glymphatic system