Neurosciences

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Overview

The Neuroscience area is consolidating its position as one of the largest clusters of research labs working on neurological diseases across Europe. At present, the area comprises 14 groups with more than one hundred fully dedicated researchers in close contact with top clinicians in the hospital. These research groups pursue a better and multifaceted understanding of the etiopathogenic mechanisms underlying a large variety of mostly adult but also pediatric neurological disorders including stroke, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, primary headaches, epilepsy, neuromuscular disorders, and also neurosurgical and psychiatric pathologies. The area also integrates groups involved in neuroimaging, analysis and interpretation of high-throughput data, and gene therapy strategies to target inflammatory and neurodegenerative neurological conditions.

Publications

276
total
1952
impact factor
7.07
average impact factor

Group Leader: Patricia Pozo Rosich

Our group has continued to work on our main overarching project the Migraine Adaptive Brain Program. Migraine is complex hereditary brain disorder, which helps us understand how the brain communicates and adapts to change through the sensory processing of internal and external stimuli. Our mission is to study brain function by analyzing how neural networks adapt, respond and communicate with cognitive circuits and the environment through sensory networks, and to transfer this knowledge to diagnose, treat and prevent brain disorders, such as migraine. We also aim to develop evidence-based approaches to enhance individual abilities and non-cognitive skills, and improve brain sense technological devices, with the ultimate goal of promoting self- knowledge and globally increasing the quality of life. Once these functions are better understood we will improve individual abilities and develop therapeutic solutions.

VHIR Annual Report 2019