Analysis of the impact of synaptic plasticity genes and Human Accelerated Regions on brain function and structure: from the healthy brain to schizophrenia 

    Guardiola Ripoll, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-07-26)

    [eng] Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder affecting around 24 million people worldwide. While we begin to disentangle the biological actors implicated in the origin of the disorder, the precise aetiological ...

    Aplicación de técnicas moleculares y químicas al estudio de la dieta, migración y estructura poblacional del rorcual común de Islandia 

    García Vernet, Raquel (Date of defense: 2022-05-06)

    El objetivo global de esta tesis es ampliar el conocimiento sobre la biología y ecología del rorcual común, con foco principal en la población de rorcual común de Islandia. Dadas las numerosas incógnitas que siguen existiendo ...

    Candidate genes for psychosis and their interaction with environmental factors: impact on psychosis-proneness = Gens candidats per psicosi i la seva interacció amb factors ambientals: impacte sobre la vulnerabilitat per a psicosi 

    Castro i Català, Marta de (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)

    Schizophrenia is a severe and complex mental disorder that results in an inability to cope with life’s ordinary demands and routines. Normally, it appears in late adolescence, more frequently and developing earlier in ...

    From early life stress to adult psychopathology: An epigenetic view from monozygotic twin based approaches 

    Palma Gudiel, Helena (Date of defense: 2019-02-15)

    Psychiatric disorders are highly prevalent and one of the leading causes of disease burden worldwide. Nevertheless, there are no validated biomarkers to be used for either diagnostic or prognostic purposes and their etiology ...

    Mestizaje genético en las poblaciones humanas de Argentina 

    Resano Fantino, Magdalena (Date of defense: 2018-10-25)

    El objetivo principal de esta tesis es hacer un estudio completo del mestizaje genético de Argentina. Se pretende valorar la distribución territorial y regional del mestizaje y contrastarla con la información histórica y ...

    Reconciling standardised inventories and DNA barcoding to infer diversity patterns in Iberian spider communities 

    Domènech Andreu, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)

    Unveiling the patterns and identifying the factors that drive community assembly are key questions in ecology and evolution, especially in the current state of climate change and biodiversity loss. Because of its particular ...