New Neuropsychological Reference Standards Enable Earlier Detection of One in Five Incipient Alzheimer’s Disease Cases

by Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

The Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) has led a multicenter project that redefines what is considered normal cognitive performance. The work has resulted in two complementary scientific articl...

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Three IBEC projects receive ERC Proof of Concept funding to drive innovation in health, neuroscience, and biomedical technology

by IBEC - Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

The three winning projects range from new platforms for discovering antiamyloid drugs, to advanced metabolic analysis technologies, to optical tools for studying the brains of animals moving naturally...

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Three Research Projects Advance Understanding of Brain Mechanisms and Address Rare Diseases and Cancer

by Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Altogether, the projects have been awarded a total granted budget of €1,138,250. The grants will support the launch of new research lines in neuroscience, rare diseases, and cancer, as well as stren...

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Demuestran que la arquitectura sináptica de los circuitos sensoriales cambia según el área de la corteza cerebral

by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Investigadores de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) han medido y comparado la estructura microscópica de las sinapsis mediante las cuales las neuronas corticales reciben información sensorial...

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Understanding why music is not rewarding for everyone

by Institut de Neurociències

Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBneuro) have published a comprehensive review in the prestigious journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, shedding new lig...

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Researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences UMH–CSIC identify key genetic alterations in the brains of people with alcoholism

by Institut de Neurociències

The study, published in the journal Addiction, reveals how decades of alcohol consumption alter the activity of key genes in brain regions involved in addiction.

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An international study has succeeded in predicting the risk of dementia up to seven years before clinical diagnosis

by Universidad de Navarra

Researchers at the University of Navarra are participating in the development a biomarker that, based on brain electrical activity and artificial intelligence, is capable of identifying the risk of fu...

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Un nuevo método permite descifrar con más precisión el funcionamiento de los circuitos del cerebro

by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

El investigador David Garcia Soriano, profesor Serra Húnter de la UPC, junto con otros científicos internacionales, presentan un método innovador para comprender mejor cómo se organizan y funciona...

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CAR therapies for neurodegeneration: a big challenge with increasingly plausible solutions

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

A UAB research team defines the criteria that CAR immunotherapies for neurodegenerative diseases must meet to advance both conceptually and in trials, which are still at a very preliminary stage, in a...

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Competitive interactions are key to explaining the dynamics of the human brain

by UPF - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

An international study involving Pompeu Fabra University provides new insights into how the brain works in complex processes such as attention, decision-making, and memory. To do so, the types of inte...

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CRB Health Tech and CDTI invest in Zoundream, a company that is revolutionizing childcare through AI and sound

by CRB Health Tech

Zoundream' system, developed with the aim of monitoring babies by identifying their needs, is designed to provide continuous and non-invasive health monitoring of newborns in their homes. Based on aco...

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Myelin, a new brain regulator

by Universidad del País Vasco

A study by Professor Carlos Matute of the EHU reinforces a paradigm shift in neuroscience: myelin goes from being a structural element to being an active component of brain function

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