Gardner, Michelle (Date of defense: 2007-06-25)
El treball presentat en aquesta tesi és un estudi de la diversitat genètica en un conjunt de gens implicats en funcions neurològiques ("Gens cerebrals"). Hom ha examinat vint-i-dos gens implicats en els ...
Quevedo Díaz, Marcos (Date of defense: 2017-12-21)
Understanding the neural basis of conscious perception is still one of the central unsolved problems in neuroscience. Current theoretical models of conscious processing include the Global Workspace ...
Riquelme Esteve, Andrea (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
Our everyday life is plenty of social interactions, but there are still many unknowns about the mechanisms supporting them. The current dissertation aims to explore the neurocognitive processes that ...
Pérez García, Débora (Date of defense: 2015-11-16)
Williams-Beuren syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a heterozygous deletion of 26-28 genes in 7q11.23. Despite the great advances on the knowledge of the clinical phenotype and the ...
Nadal i Roura, Xavier (Date of defense: 2011-09-23)
This work is focused in the study of the pathophysiology of neuropathic pain, particularly in the role of the endogenous opioid and cannabinoid systems. Neuropathic pain is a chronic illness with a high ...
Torres Méndez, Antonio (Date of defense: 2020-02-28)
Post-transcriptional networks control multiple aspects of neuronal biology and their deregulation has been associated with human neurological disorders. This thesis focuses on regulation at the level ...
Vicario Orri, Elena (Date of defense: 2017-10-03)
The mechanisms by which amyloid beta (Aβ) causes synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) remain elusive. Aβ is derived by sequential cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and released ...
Guix Ràfols, Francesc Xavier (Date of defense: 2009-01-22)
Aquesta tesi demostra que el peroxinitrit produït com a conseqüència del pèptid beta-amiloide (A) contribueix l'augment de la relació A42/A40 que ocorre a la malaltia d'Alzheimer. ...
Calvé Pérez, Pablo (Date of defense: 2022-07-04)
Food addiction is closely associated with eating disorders including obesity and binge eating. However, the neural alterations underlying this disorder have not been yet clarified. We have trained ...
Brugulat Serrat, Anna (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)
White matter hyperintensities (WMH) have been associated with increased risk and progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the range to which this association can be extended to AD risk factors ...