Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by the selective loss of neurons responsible for controlling the skeletal muscles. Neuregulin type 1 (NRG1) contributes to compensating this loss in general, but this mechanism is altered in patients with ALS. To restore this...
Substance abuse, compulsive gambling and obesity show to have a very similar cognitive profile when it comes to the decision making process. This process drives individuals to choose determinate actions, over others, after...
Overweight and obesity continue to rise due to unhealthy diets, especially in adolescences. A recent study on the effects of a cafeteria diet with regard to coping strategies in female rats has shown, on the one hand, that this type of diet is not only metabolically harmful but...
The brain can be conceptualized as a thermodynamic system and as an information processor. Consequently, brain activity can be modelled in terms of thermodynamics and cognitive activity in information theoretic terms. The...
After a peripheral nerve injury, neurons activate mechanisms that allow the regeneration of sensory axons, to try to restore their function. However, in most cases, functional recovery is insufficient and there are alterations in the processing of...
The brain is one of the organs that generate most research, especially because there is still a lack of understanding of its operating mechanisms. Two examples are the cause and development of neurodegenerative diseases, widespread in Western countries, which cause a significant loss of quality of...
Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca (IBIMA Institute - Regional University Hospital of Malaga) gave a seminar at the UAB Institut de Neurociències (INC)...
Protein misfolding and aggregation is associated with numerous degenerative human disorders such as type-II-diabetes or Alzheimer’s disease. In previous research we identifieda threshold abovewhich a cell began to actively accumulate protein aggregates. The data obtained in this new...
World Mental Health Day is held annually on the 10th of October, to raise awareness and inform on mental health issues and win support. At the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the group of researchers that make up the CORE-Mental Health network are...
Mauricio Papini, professor at the Texas Christian University and expert in comparative psychology, analyses the mechanisms involved in situations related to the unexpected omission of reward, the mechanisms behind the evolution of learning, as well as psycological pain. Is visit at UAB has been supported by a Fulbright...
