A low-calorie nutritious diet and the sport practice prolong people’s life expectancy and reduce the chance of developing neurodegenerative diseases associated with aging. The Laboratory of Psychobiology...
An optimal balance between the athletic and the academic or job career (dual career) is one of the main challenges elite athletes face throughout their development. The following research examines the different existing environments in...
Aerobic physical exercise could help to reduce some of the cognitive deficits associated to traumatic brain injury (TBI), contributing in this way to improve the quality of life of the affected individuals. However, there are...
The growing popularity of mountain sports and other outdoor activities has led to a growth in the number of accidents. This article examines the combination of factors that shape how participants in these activities...
The EU-funded project Building Inclusive Societies: Diversifying Knowledge and Tackling Discrimination through Civil Society Participation in Universities (with the acronym BRIDGES) kicks off this 15 November.
Orexin-A and Orexin-B are a type of neuropeptides linked with many different functions, such as eating and drinking intake or certain cognitive processes. That is why it is suspected that they contribute in the clinical phenotype...
In general practice, overusers, as the name indicates, are patients who overuse or abuse public health services thus generating burnout in professionals and increasing healthcare costs. In this article, the differential personality characteristics of overusers have been analyzed and results have shown...
Improving argumentative competence is a social and educational imperative to help students to develop scientific thinking. It is basic that future teachers understand science and learn to build scientific reasoning during their...
Dr Carla Sharp is Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston and conducts research into Borderline Personality Disorder in children and adolescents. She has conducted several pioneering studies in this field and has published over 200 publications in journals, articles and books. In 2016 she was the recipient of the...
The Research Group on Stress and Health, has investigated whether the ocular system, regulated by the same neural mechanisms as the arteries, also suffers the phenomenon known as white coat hypertension in its intraocular pressure.
