Congratulations are in order! As announced at the CRG webpage, The Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona has offered one full fellowship, which will cover for the traveling… Read More from The Institute of Neurosciences awards the Brain Organoids Course fellowship to young researcher Jarmila Havelková
Mel Slater, researcher at the University of Barcelona and member of the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB (UBneuro), leads the first European Metaverse Research Network (ERMN). This network includes eight leading… Read More from UBneuro researcher leads the first European metaverse research network
This year the Science Festival of the University of Barcelona reaches its ninth edition and offers more workshops than ever, a total of 67, in which researchers from the Institute… Read More from The UB’s Science Festival offers more proposals than ever for you to enjoy research
The psychiatrist Eduard Vieta, the epidemiologist and paediatrician Quique Bassat and the economist Judit Vall have been awarded the 10th UB Doctors’ Senate and Board of Trustees’ Award to the top… Read More from Dissemination awards given to the psychiatrist Eduard Vieta, the economist Judit Vall, and the epidemiologist Quique Bassat
The results of the European Research Council‘s (ERC) Proof of Concept grants, which fund projects by researchers who have been previously awarded ERC grants, have been published today. Mel Slater, a… Read More from Does virtually reliving youth improve old people’s health?
Generating new memories and remembering are two sides of the same coin, although sometimes they can appear as separate mechanisms. These mechanisms which seem to be distanced from each other… Read More from Researchers decode neural mechanism for alternating memory formation and retrieval in humans
This past Friday, 28th April, the University of Barcelona hosts the XX Technical Conference on Huntington’s Disease, organized together with the Catalan Association of Huntington’s Patients (ACMAH). Jordi Alberch, director… Read More from XX Technical Conference on Huntington’s Disease
The new protocol, published in Nature Neuroscience, defines the parameters for optimum identification of functional networks through resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) is… Read More from The Institute participates in the first consensus protocol for evaluation of functional brain connectivity in rats
Language acquisition is a complex process that requires different neural and cognitive skills since early childhood. One of children’s big challenges in language learning is to distinguish the words that… Read More from Speech rhythm and pitch are fundamental in babies’ language acquisition
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