Gallizioli, Mattia (Date of defense: 2021-02-15)
Cerebral ischaemia induces several inflammatory processes in the brain. Among them, the infiltration of immune cells is a hallmark of the pathology. Dendritic cells (DCs) are usually present in low ...
Anglada Huguet, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-07-22)
Huntington’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of a CAG tract in the exon-1 of the huntingtin gene. Mutant huntingtin induces a large amount of toxic effects ...
Camassa, Alessandra (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
Understanding the dynamics of the brain that gives rise to conscious experience and that underscore the transition through different brain states is one of the central problems of today’s neuroscience. ...
Benet Cabero, Arnau (Date of defense: 2020-11-09)
BACKGROUND: Surgical treatment of Insular gliomas is technically challenging and may lead to high postoperative morbidity. However, previous research has proven that maximal safe resection ...
Goicoechea Barrenechea, Leire (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)
X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) is a rare neurometabolic disease characterized by the loss of function of the peroxisomal transporter ABCD1, which leads to an accumulation of very long-chain fatty ...
Laporta-Hoyos, Olga (Date of defense: 2018-10-08)
INTRODUCCIÓN: La parálisis cerebral es una de las causas más frecuentes de discapacidad física en niños y supone una condición que persiste a lo largo de la vida (Krageloh-Mann & Cans, 2009). Concretamente, ...
Stein, Heike (Date of defense: 2020-11-13)
[eng] In this thesis, I investigate different synaptic and circuit mechanisms of working memory, how their interaction produces specific working memory biases, and how their disruption in psychiatric ...
Gallizioli, Mattia (Date of defense: 2021-02-15)
[eng] Cerebral ischaemia induces several inflammatory processes in the brain. Among them, the infiltration of immune cells is a hallmark of the pathology. Dendritic cells (DCs) are usually present in ...
García Serra, Anna (Date of defense: 2021-09-14)
[eng] BACKGROUND: Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a neuronal antibody-mediated disease that associates with prominent neuropsychiatric symptoms and predominantly affects women ...
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 ...