Ortiz Teba, Pilar (Date of defense: 2023-07-05)
Depression is a major public health problem, affecting 322 million people worldwide. Antidepressants are the basis for the treatment of major depression. Although increasingly safer, individual patient ...
Ortiz Romero, Paula (Date of defense: 2019-11-18)
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a heterozygous deletion of ~1.5 Mb in chromosome region 7q11.23. The use of murine models of the disease has helped to ...
Schulze, Aljoscha (Date of defense: 2015-09-18)
Animals have to deal with an environment presenting vast amounts of ever-changing sensory information. What features of this information flow are captured by the sensory system? My thesis work examines ...
Tornador Antolin, Cristian (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
Depression is the most common type of emotional disorder among the world's population. It is characterized by negative sentiments, the feeling of guilt, low self-esteem, a loss of interest, a high-level ...
Morales, Hernán G. (Date of defense: 2012-09-28)
Nowadays, most popular therapies for cerebral aneurysms are clipping and coiling. Nonetheless, it is not easy to elucidate which therapeutic option is the most suitable and reliable for a patient-specific ...
Guivernau Almazán, Biuse (Date of defense: 2016-06-10)
Aggregation of the amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide to form oligomers and amyloid fibrils is a central event in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This thesis aims to provide a better understanding of ...
Busquets Garcia, Arnau (Date of defense: 2013-07-04)
The endocannabinoid system is an endogenous neuromodulatory system that regulates a plethora of physiological functions, including the modulation of memory, anxiety, pain, synaptic plasticity and neuronal ...
Alegre Zurano, Laia (Date of defense: 2023-07-26)
Cocaine use profoundly disrupts the neuronal circuits that regulate reward processing, motivation and decision making, resulting in long-lasting neuroplastic adaptations in the mesocorticolimbic system. ...
García Fernández, Jéssica (Date of defense: 2023-06-12)
The term "neurodegenerative disorder" refers to a set of illnesses in which the neurological system gradually deteriorates and is characterized by cognitive impairment, motor degradation, and behavioural ...
Demirtaş, Murat (Date of defense: 2015-12-15)
Brain activity, on every scale, spontaneously fluctuates, thereby exhibiting complex, dynamic interactions that manifest rich synchronization patterns. The past ten years have been dominated by studies ...