Ariño Rodríguez, Helena (Date of defense: 2017-03-28)
This thesis focuses on antibodies against the glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD-ab) in neurological disorders. GAD-ab were first identified in 1988 in the serum and CSF from one patient with stiff-person ...
Tarrés Gatius, Mireia (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)
Sub-anesthetic doses of ketamine evoke rapid and persistent antidepressant effects in treatment-resistant depressed patients through still poorly-known mechanisms. Ketamine also evokes transient ...
Garcia Diaz, Anna Isabel (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
Parkinson’s disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder that manifests with a wide range of non-motor symptoms. Among them, cognitive impairment is present in a high proportion of patients, having a ...
Salvadó Blasco, Gemma (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia worldwide. This disease, however, starts decades before any clinical symptom appears with the accumulation in the brain of aggregates of two ...
Ballester López, Alfonsina (Date of defense: 2020-12-18)
Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1) is a complex disease with a dominant autosomic inheritance caused by a CTG expansion at the end of the DMPK gene. This expansion is very unstable and it is known that is ...
Kühne, Britta Anna (Date of defense: 2022-10-21)
[eng] Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is defined as a significant reduction on fetal growth rate, resulting in a birth weight below the 10th percentile for the corresponding gestational age (Sharma ...
Gómez Andrés, Alba (Date of defense: 2022-12-15)
[eng] How do we recognize that “I” am the one acting upon the world? This experience of knowing oneself as the author of our actions and their consequences, the sense of agency, is a basic feature of ...
Paraskevoudi, Nadia (Date of defense: 2022-09-30)
[eng] The ability to distinguish self-generated stimuli from those caused by external sources is critical for all biological organisms. Although substantial work has been done in this domain, mainly ...
Wu, Xiongbo (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
[eng] Deciphering the mechanisms of human declarative memory is one of the main goals of neuroscience. Theoretical models such as Standard Consolidation Theory (Alvarez and Squire, 1994) and the Multiple ...
Albajes-Eizagirre, Anton (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
[eng] The objective of this thesis was to develop a method for the meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies that overcomes the drawbacks of the neuroimaging meta-analytic methods described above. To this ...