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 Leaders: Miquel Casas Brugué and Josep Antoni Ramos Quiroga

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Research Areas

The Research Group Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addictions Vall d’Hebron Research Institute is a multidisciplinary team that over the past 12 years has focused his scientific activity in research of pathogenetic aspects (focused mainly on genetic determinants), clinical and therapeutic:

  1. Disorders Neuro-psycho-development (emphasis on Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism, Fetal Alcoholic Syndrome)
  2. Personality Disorders (with special emphasis on borderline personality disorder).
  3. Addictive Behaviors (with special emphasis on Dual Pathology and smoking)
  4. Transcultural Psychiatry
  5. Liaison Psychiatry

This pathologies are characterized by deficits in basic mental functions, high impulsiveness, learning difficulties, behavioral disorders and addictive behaviors, appearing in the infant stage and having a maximum hatching in adolescence, extend into adulthood and old age, conditioning most maturational and adaptive processes that characterize the human being and limiting the possibility to enjoy an autonomous healthy life, cooperative and contemplating the various peculiarities that differences between races, cultures and religions print the pathoplasty of these disorders.

VHIR Annual Report 2019

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