Braga Pereira, Joana (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is currently the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s disease (AD), affecting 100.000 people in Spain and more than 4 million people worldwide. Being ...
Bioque Alcázar, Miquel (Date of defense: 2013-10-14)
Around 3% of the general population suffers a first episode of psychosis (FEP). The population of FEPs represents a unique opportunity to study psychotic disorders in general and schizophrenia in ...
Miralbell Blanch, Júlia (Date of defense: 2012-07-13)
Cognitive impairment in the elderly encompasses many forms, ranging from subtle impairments in otherwise cognitively healthy individuals through mild cognitive impairment and dementia. Brain structural ...
Benaiges Fusté, Irina (Date of defense: 2013-06-27)
Dual Diagnosis (DD) is the co-occurrence of a Severe Mental Illness (SMI), commonly a major psychotic or affective disorder, and a Substance Use Dependence Disorder (SUD). It is a highly prevalent ...
Soriano Raya, Juan José (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
Hachinski, Potter and Merskey introduced the term “leukoaraiosis” (from the Greek “leuko” = “white”, and “araiosis” = “rarefaction”) to designate bilateral and symmetrical areas in the white matter (WM) ...
Recasens Fusté, Marc (Date of defense: 2014-11-19)
El nostre sistema auditiu codifica regularitats acústiques i les compara amb els inputs sensorials de forma continuada. Els sons novedosos o canvis acústics són detectats inconscientment de forma ràpida ...
Finke, Mareike (Date of defense: 2013-01-18)
The brain's ability to represent, maintain and update contextual (task-set) information enables us to alternate successfully between different tasks. Task-set reconfiguration is required when task demands ...
Fernández Espejo, Davinia (Date of defense: 2010-12-10)
The Vegetative State (VS) is a clinical condition characterized by wakefulness in the absence of awareness of self or environment. A person in a VS retains autonomic functions but exhibits no evidence ...
Althen, Heike Corinna (Date of defense: 2014-01-17)
One way of structuring the huge amount of sound input reaching the human ear, is extracting sound objects, which are formed by stimuli having a certain regularity in common. Mismatching stimuli are ...
Fernández-Andújar, Marina (Date of defense: 2014-07-25)
Cerebrovascular diseases (CD) are the third most common cause of death and the leading cause of disability in adults in developed countries (Carmichael, 2012; World Health Organization, 2004). Specifically, ...