Director, Full Professor
Neuronal connectivity in Huntington’s disease and basal ganglia disorders
Ivan Ballasch
Early Stage Researcher
Sara Conde
Early Stage Researcher
Esther Garcia
Early Stage Researcher
Laura Lopez
Early Stage Researcher
Ened Rodriguez
Early Stage Researcher
Anna Sancho
Early Stage Researcher
Laia Sitja
Early Stage Researcher
Albert Coll
Technician
Carmen Andrade
Technician
Growing evidence has indicated the existence of deleterious networks in the brain of neurological and psychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s chorea, depression or schizophrenia. The deleterious neural networks are formed on the basis of intimate interactions among key pathogenic factors. These deleterious networks could be the common pathway of these brain disorders, triggering of which by aging, certain genetic and environmental factors leading to a cascade of pathological alterations of the illnesses. Understanding the mechanisms that modulate connectivity and plasticity of neural circuitry is crucial to develop new network-based therapeutical strategies.