Research Area

Mental Health

Psychotic and affective disorders are among the most disabling mental disorders in the world.

Depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have a substantial economic impact in mental health and social services. They are a major contributor to increasing direct healthcare system costs (e.g., hospital inpatient stays, prescription drugs), direct social system costs (e.g., pensions, guardianship) and indirect costs (e.g., loss of productivity from unemployment, reduced work productivity among family caregiver). Recently, there has been a paradigm shift in the way we understand mental disorders, moving from pursuing a clinical remission (i.e., symptom-free periods) to a full recovery (i.e., good performance in everyday life). Under a multidisciplinary approach, the Institute actively embraces the challenge of advancing mental health knowledge around underlying neurobiological mechanisms, cognitive and daily life functioning, and new treatments and therapies in psychotic and affective disorders in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.

Areas

Pathophysiology of Nervous System Diseases

Pathophysiology of Nervous System Diseases

The study of the pathophysiology of nervous system diseases represents a critical challenge in biomedicine, essential for advancing the development of effective and innovative therapies.

Experimental Neurology

Experimental Neurology

Neurodegenerative diseases are usually linked with aging. thus, nowadays there is an important increase in these disorders with a strong social and economical impact in our society

Mental Health

Mental Health

Psychotic and affective disorders are among the most disabling mental disorders in the world.

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

Research in this area focuses on the cerebral circuits, networks, processes and computational mechanisms that underpin a plethora of functions, such as perception, attention, memory, language, decision making, emotion and the control of action, to name a few.