Mühlberg, Stefanie (Date of defense: 2016-07-18)
This thesis investigates the relationship between attention to time and modality at the levels of behavior and pre-stimulus brain oscillations, measured with EEG. Participants were presented with target ...
Borralleras Fumaña, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a heterozygous deletion of 26-28 contiguous genes in the 7q11.23 region. So far, a great deal of attention has been focused ...
Vidal Torres, Alba (Date of defense: 2013-11-20)
In the present thesis, and in the context of the Sigma-1 receptor (σ1R) research project running at the pharmaceutical company ESTEVE, we addressed, at the preclinical level, the role played by selective ...
López-González, Ane (Date of defense: 2021-10-06)
The brain’s resting-state activity displays complex spatiotemporal patterns of activity that are constantly formed and dissolved. The study of these dynamic collective patterns has increased our ...
Kossatz de Mello, Elk (Date of defense: 2018-06-08)
In this thesis, we have developed a hypoxia-ischemia (HI) model in adult mice to study the neuroprotective mechanisms of CB2 cannabinoid receptors (CB2R), and the potential therapeutic effects of the ...
Perales Puchalt, Jaime (Date of defense: 2014-10-27)
The continuing growth of older age groups worldwide needs an increased understanding of the ageing phenomena. For this reason, the present thesis is aimed at two very important outcomes in the elderly, ...
Belzunce Guillermo, Ivan (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
The Lower Rhombic Lip (LRL) is a transient neuroepithelial structure of dorsal hindbrain that gives rise to deep brainstem nuclei like the vestibular, auditory and precerebellar nuclei. In this work, ...
Zumel Marne, María Ángela (Date of defense: 2019-12-10)
Risk factors and diagnosis in young people have been little explored, despite brain tumours (BT) is one of the most frequent tumour type in children and adolescents. The purpose of this doctoral thesis ...
Ros i Simó, Clara (Date of defense: 2013-03-15)
Adolescence is a critical developmental period in which the brain emerges from an immature state to adulthood. This process of brain development is associated to greater cognitive capacity but also to ...
Khandelwal, Avinash (Date of defense: 2017-01-19)
Drosophila larvae present unique opportunity for anatomical and functional mapping of their nervous system because of features such as numerical simplicity of neurons its nervous system is composed of, ...