Rodríguez Urgellés, Ened (Date of defense: 2022-01-20)
Huntington’s Disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor, psychiatric, and cognitive manifestations. The disease is caused by an unstable expansion ...
Ramírez Mahaluf, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2015-05-14)
This thesis is composed of two complementary projects. One focuses on the study of the dynamics between emotional and cognitive networks in healthy subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
Puigdellívol Cañadell, Maria del Mar (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)
Understanding the molecular underpinnings of neuronal dysfunction and degeneration involved in Huntington’s disease is a goal of increasing urgency for society and scientific community. In this Thesis ...
Martín Flores, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
Huntington's disease (HD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are devastating neurodegenerative diseases that progress with the death of selective neuronal subpopulations. Neuronal dysfunction and death are ...
Canal de la Iglesia, Mercè (Date of defense: 2016-06-01)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons of the Substantia Nigra pars compacta (SNpc) and the presence of cytoplasmic protein inclusions named Lewy Bodies. Current ...
Spinosa, Vittoria (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Perception can be considered as the bridge necessary to interact with the surroundings. Indeed, through our senses we are continuously exchanging information between the physical world around us and our ...
Fenoll Sanguino, Raquel (Date of defense: 2017-09-14)
The present doctoral thesis is focused on describing the effects that different environmental and genetic modulators have on white matter pathways and its consequences measured with diffusion tensor ...
Sánchez Bestué, David (Date of defense: 2022-03-09)
The main goal of this thesis is to study the circuit for working memory maintenance from a mechanistic perspective. To do so, I combine behavioral experiments with neuroimaging techniques and neuronal ...
Soria Pastor, Sara (Date of defense: 2009-09-17)
Preterm birth is frequently associated with an increased risk of neurodevelopmental difficulties and of cognitive, behavioural and emotional problems during childhood. The present thesis comprises two ...
Garcia Esparcia, Paula (Date of defense: 2016-12-02)
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by movement impairment, or parkinsonism, for which there is still no cure. The manifest clinical signs result from ...