Blasco Agell, Lucas (Date of defense: 2021-11-25)
[eng] Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease characterized by the loss of neuromelanin (NM)-containing dopamine neurons in Substantia Nigra pars compacta (SNpc) and accumulation ...
Santos Gómez, Ana (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
[spa] Los receptores ionotrópicos de tipo N-metil-D-aspartato (NMDAR) son canales iónicos activados por glutamato que juegan un papel clave en la fisiología neuronal. Los avances en la secuenciación ...
Koehorst, Emma Agathe (Date of defense: 2022-06-17)
[spa] La distrofia miotónica tipo 1 (DM1) es un trastorno multisistémico, progresivo y no tratable con una expansión CTG en el gen DMPK que es la base de la patología. La compleja naturaleza ...
Torao-Angosto, Melody (Date of defense: 2020-09-22)
The brain varies its state in accordance with the internal and external context, resulting into distinct patterns of activity and dynamics. The cerebral cortex and the interactions between cortical and ...
Tarrés Gatius, Mireia (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)
Sub-anesthetic doses of ketamine evoke rapid and persistent antidepressant effects in treatment-resistant depressed patients through still poorly-known mechanisms. Ketamine also evokes transient ...
Salvadó Blasco, Gemma (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia worldwide. This disease, however, starts decades before any clinical symptom appears with the accumulation in the brain of aggregates of two ...
Ballester López, Alfonsina (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1) is a complex disease with a dominant autosomic inheritance caused by a CTG expansion at the end of the DMPK gene. This expansion is very unstable and it is known that is ...
Albajes-Eizagirre, Anton (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
[eng] The objective of this thesis was to develop a method for the meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies that overcomes the drawbacks of the neuroimaging meta-analytic methods described above. To this ...
Laredo Gregorio, Carlos (Date of defense: 2021-07-08)
[eng] Imaging has a central role in prognostication and treatment decision making in acute ischemic stroke (AIS). Computed Tomography Perfusion (CTP) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are used to ...
Ilzarbe Simorte, Daniel (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)
[eng] Impairment in social functioning is a common diagnostic criteria for most psychiatric disorders (1,2). Multiples causes may be involved in the loss, or the lack of acquisition, of social skills ...