Perales Puchalt, Jaime (Date of defense: 2014-10-27)
The continuing growth of older age groups worldwide needs an increased understanding of the ageing phenomena. For this reason, the present thesis is aimed at two very important outcomes in the elderly, ...
Belzunce Guillermo, Ivan (Date of defense: 2019-11-08)
The Lower Rhombic Lip (LRL) is a transient neuroepithelial structure of dorsal hindbrain that gives rise to deep brainstem nuclei like the vestibular, auditory and precerebellar nuclei. In this work, ...
Zumel Marne, María Ángela (Date of defense: 2019-12-10)
Risk factors and diagnosis in young people have been little explored, despite brain tumours (BT) is one of the most frequent tumour type in children and adolescents. The purpose of this doctoral thesis ...
Ros i Simó, Clara (Date of defense: 2013-03-15)
Adolescence is a critical developmental period in which the brain emerges from an immature state to adulthood. This process of brain development is associated to greater cognitive capacity but also to ...
Khandelwal, Avinash (Date of defense: 2017-01-19)
Drosophila larvae present unique opportunity for anatomical and functional mapping of their nervous system because of features such as numerical simplicity of neurons its nervous system is composed of, ...
Capouskova, Katerina (Date of defense: 2023-02-03)
Dynamic brain states, temporal functional unions of diverse brain areas, are the driving force in our everyday cognition. They help us to flexibly integrate and segregate the assorted information that ...
Zhang, Chong (Date of defense: 2011-07-28)
Over the last decade, there has been a growing interest in assessing cerebral aneurysmal wall motion, because of its potential connections to the biomechanical conditions of the vessel wall, which could ...
Anta Rodríguez, Héctor (Date of defense: 2016-12-15)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia in the elderly. It is associated to a progressive loss of memory, problems in learning and behaviour changes. This disease is characterized ...
Picón Pagès, Pol (Date of defense: 2022-09-09)
Society increase in live expectancy will cause a rise in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis, thus, there is a need to further understand how it works. One of the main culprits of this disease amyloid-β ...
Martínez Torres, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-12-12)
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is an endogenous neuromodulatory system widely expressed in the central nervous system and peripheral organs, where it fine-tunes numerous physiological functions. ...