Neurobiology Archives - El·lipse

13.05.2020

Memory alterations described in mice with Down syndrome

It is revealed for the first time how neurons carry essential genetic code for their growth and movement, thus promoting the formation and storage of long-term memories. | Picture by Anita Jankovic from Unsplash.

03.04.2020

Closer to figuring out the molecular mechanisms responsible for creating memories

Moving our body following the beat of a song requires great coordination from our brain. | Picture by Alexander Popov on Unsplash.

04.03.2020

Music rhythm on the brain

During the last 10 years, eating disorders cases have doubled globally. | Picture by Tom Sodoge on Unsplash.

13.02.2020

Food addiction exists, and shares common features with drug addiction

20.12.2019

ERC grants and genomics hints into bird extinctions

Neurodegenerative diseases often run with protein aggregation; but is that aggregation the cause of the disease? Researchers at the CRG have used deep mutagenesis to get closer to the answer. Photo by pan xiaozhen on Unsplash.

22.10.2019

New insights into protein aggregation and neurodegenerative diseases

The brain consists of very complicated cells called neurons and they build up very complex networks (Picture by Juniorbolivar at Wikipedia).

19.09.2019

Biochemistry: from destroying to creating

Artem Komissarov studies the molecular transport within neurons. Illustration by David S. Goodsell, the Scripps Research Institute.

12.06.2019

Rin4′: more than a science talk competition

04.03.2019

The endocannabinoid system in Down syndrome

Astrocytes and radial glia by Jason Snyder, CC BY 2.0

17.05.2018

The brain’s protective wall: the blood-brain barrier

07.09.2017

Effects of cannabis at the hippocampus

15.04.2016

“My greatest satisfaction is knowing the knowledge we generate improves people’s lives”