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Llorella Costa, Fabio Ricardo (Date of defense: 2023-06-01)
This doctoral thesis focuses on the study of the use of visual imagery for the construction of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) non-invasive. Although the construction of brain-computer interfaces is already is a reality, ...
Madruga Parera, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-06-03)
The asymmetries detected in the different multi-directional sports vary in magnitude depending on the test selected. Furthermore, in the individual analysis of the different tests administered, it was observed that athlete’s ...
Gil Origüén, Ángel (Date of defense: 2017-07-29)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is responsible for major disabilities and the leading cause of death in children and young people. It also has a significant impact on families and high social costs. Objectives: To explore ...
Blanco Silvente, Lídia (Date of defense: 2019-07-08)
The evidence available in the medical literature is conclusive that the risk-benefit relationship of the current medications for Alzheimer's disease is not favourable. This risk-benefit relationship is not significantly ...
Soler Sellarès, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2016-02-25)
The Traumatic brain injury is classified into mild, moderate and severe depending on the initial severity. With mild TBI, the patients may remain conscious or may lose consciousness, but usually these patients have a ...
Celarain Sanz, Naiara (Date of defense: 2023-06-26)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory, autoimmune and neurodegenerative disease characterized by the infiltration of autoreactive immune cells into the central nervous system that leads to axonal damage, ...
Fages Masmiquel, Ester (Date of defense: 2023-09-14)
Dementia causes progressive cognitive impairment and inability to lead an independent life. Currently, there is no curative treatment for it, and thus primary prevention is essential. Age is the main risk factor for ...
Vidal Sancho, Laura (Date of defense: 2018-01-10)
Huntington disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor, cognitive and psychiatric dysfunction. Huntington disease is caused by an expanded CAG trinucleotide repeat at the exon 1 of the IT15 gen, which ...
Gubern Mérida, M. Carme (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
Cerebral ischaemia is a potent inducer of gene expression, however, little is known about the mechanisms that regulate this expression. Studies of gene expression and the study of the mechanisms regulating this expression ...
Terceño Izaga, Mikel (Date of defense: 2018-02-06)
The present thesis, aims to study whether the evaluation of the CT through DTI and tractography sequences in the first 12 hours from the ICH onset, is able to predict the motor and functional outcome at 3 months. The ...
Salamó Avellaneda, Anna (Date of defense: 2011-06-10)
L’objectiu general d’aquesta tesi és conèixer la prevalença i el patró de consum d’alcohol d’una mostra de 2,137 estudiants de la Universitat de Girona (17-35 anys). S’utilitzà un disseny multimètode integrant la metodologia ...
Gich Fullà, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-07-18)
The clinical manifestations of Multiple Sclerosis are motor, sensitive, cerebellar and cognitive alterations. It evolves with a high degree of physical and cognitive disability. The “EM-line! Project” has its origins in ...
Muñoz San Martín, María (Date of defense: 2021-09-15)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is considered a chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease, characterized by the existence of demyelinated areas in the central nervous system, infiltration of inflammatory cells in the ...
Ramírez Fernández, Javier (Date of defense: 2019-02-20)
We discover properties of language in the light of independent knowledge of the brain and the mind. We will review brain structures and connections on a large scale; the activity, in the form of brain oscillations, that ...
Bonmatí Coll, Ester (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
The human brain is a complex network that shares and processes information by using the structural paths between areas in order to perform a function. The connectome models the brain as a graph where nodes correspond to ...
Solés Tarrés, Irene (Date of defense: 2023-06-14)
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative genetic disorder with no effective treatment characterized by motor discoordination, deficits in cognitive function (acquiring new knowledges, memory, understanding…), and ...
Cabezas Llobet, Núria (Date of defense: 2019-02-28)
Huntington's disease (MH) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a motor dysfunction, cognitive impairment, and psychiatric symptoms. At neuropathological level, it has been described that cognitive ...
Portabella Serra, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-06-01)
The severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI) depends on the primary injury and subsequent complications. The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is used to assess its initial severity. We talk about mild TBI when the GCS score ranges ...
Prados Carrasco, Ferran (Date of defense: 2012-03-01)
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is a new magnetic resonance imaging modality capable of producing quantitative maps of microscopic natural displacements of water molecules that occur in brain tissues as part of the physical ...
Gifre Monreal, Mariona (Date of defense: 2014-01-14)
People with acquired brain damage and their families are described as silent epidemic because, although they have extended their survival, no psychosocial long-term means have been increased to improve their quality of ...