Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Most of the Native American populations that lived in nowadays Eastern Brazil when the Europeans established in the area in the 16th century do not exist anymore. The colonization of Brazil implied huge migrations from ...
Non-coding RNA functions are emerging in the recent years. In this thesis we describe a Natural Antisense Transcript (NAT) that controls the expression of LEF1 transcriptional factor. This LEF1 NAT is transcribed from a ...
This thesis aims at (a) evaluating the association between natural outdoor environments (NOE) and health in adults and potential effect modifiers of this association, and (b) investigating the possible mechanism of this ...
El temps és un component estructural de la música. A cada cultura, els sons de la música es produeixen i es perceben com patrons rítmics que posseeixen una pulsació isocrònica subjacent. Aquesta pulsació isocrònica ...
Understanding the neural correlates of intellectual disability is still a central and unresolved problem in neuroscience. Here we have unravelled several candidate neural substrates of memory impairment and rescue using a ...
In this thesis, we explored neural entrainment as a potential mechanism to underline the behavioral evidence that certain phonological properties of listeners’ native language affects speech segmentation. In two experimental ...
Les neurones sensorials projecten al sistema nerviós central seguint una distribució espacial ordenada, formant mapes neuronals que representen propietats dels estímuls sensorials i que són considerats essencials per a ...
L’extracció de regles de la parla és crucial per a l’adquisició del llenguatge. La present dissertació estudia el mecanisme d’aprenentatge de regles explorant com el cervell detecta regularitats rellevants dins del senyal ...
Emotional processing is fundamental for normal socialization, interpersonal interactions, successful decision-making and overall to self-regulate behavior according to each context. Adequate emotional processing relies ...
Disruption of communication in brain circuits involving the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the hippocampus (HPC) has been suggested to be a hallmark characteristic of schizophrenia. Therefore, a better understanding of the ...
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a rare disease characterized by muscular defects, as well as, cognitive and mood alterations. Although these neurophysiological disturbances are very debilitating, there is lack of data ...
Early life experiences play a key role in brain function and behaviour. Maternal separation produced negative early life experiences that induce emotional alterations. Contrary, the communal nest has been proposed as a ...
Chronic pain is currently a major clinical issue that represents huge economic and social burdens. Chronic pain treatment currently available presents limited efficacy and significant side effects. One of the reasons for ...
(+) 3,4-metilendioximetanfetamina (MDMA), popularmente conocida como "éxtasis", es una droga susceptible de producir adicción en algunos individuos. Actualmente es consumida principalmente por adolescentes y jóvenes. Los ...
Memory is a complex brain function that constitutes a crucial feature of individuals. Understanding the precise neurobiological mechanisms involved is a fundamental challenge in Neuroscience, where multiple brain areas and ...
The easy access to palatable foods is a major contributing factor for compulsive eating and development of food addiction, a disorder closely linked to obesity and binge eating disorder. The concept of food addiction is ...
El cànnabis i l’èxtasi són dues drogues d’ús recreatiu, les quals usualment es solen consumir de forma conjunta. Degut al seu ús combinat, resulta difícil esclarir les conseqüències que té cada droga a nivell neurobiològic. ...
The recently discovered decapeptide kisspeptin and its G-protein coupled receptor form a signaling system expressed ubiquitously and are implicated in a variety of still poorly characterized functions. In the brain, ...
To date, there are scarce data on bowel dysfunction (BD) in patients after brain injury (BI). Until now, only fecal incontinence (FI) has received attention and it has been mainly associated to patients’ age or performance ...
This Thesis aims at addressing the therapeutic potential of a neuroplasticity-targeted treatment for intellectual disability (ID) in Down syndrome (DS). The therapy consisted of the administration of the green tea catechin ...
