Why do some memories stay with us for a lifetime, while others fade away? The Better Ask a Neuroscientist live podcast is now available on YouTube! 🎬 Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXF1... @ub.edu @medicinacs-ub.bsky.social

Child & adolescent sexual exploitation is one of the most serious and least visible forms of violence. UBneuro researcher Noemí Pereda co-authors Spain’s first manual to detect and address it. Read more: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/a-manual-add... @ub.edu @psicologiaub.bsky.social

Human creativity still surpasses AI The creativity of AI is a myth. Although current generative AI models may appear to be autonomous creative agents, analysing their imaginative process step by step reveals that their creative abilities are not genuine. www.neurociencies.ub.edu/human-creati...

The future BCAN is moving forward. The renovation project for the Theatre building at Mundet Campus was presented today as a key milestone for a strategic initiative that aims to open a new era for applied neuroscience in Catalonia. www.neurociencies.ub.edu/the-bcan-pro...

Treating addiction & mental health separately isn’t enough. New research with #UBneuro shows that integrated psychological treatment reduces relapse and improves outcomes in dual disorder. A step towards more coordinated, person-centred care. 🔗 Read more: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/integrated-p...

Why do some memories never fade? 🎙️ Join our live Better Ask a Neuroscientist podcast to explore emotion, memory & PTSD with UBneuro researchers. 📍 Faculty of Medicine (Clinic Campus) 📅 March 24 | 10:00–11:30 👉 forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

What does the brain look like… when you stop trying to explain it? NeuroArt 2026 Where science becomes image. Where ideas become form. Where understanding begins with creativity. Not everything needs to be described...some things are meant to be imagined.

Decoding the mechansms of working memory. A new Cell Reports study led by UBneuro researcher @LopezMurciaFRA1 identifies Munc13-1 as a key molecular hub linking synaptic plasticity to working memory. 🔗 Read more: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/decoding-the... @idibell.bsky.social @mpi-nat.bsky.social

🧠 UBneuro researchers have develop FLAV-27, an experimental drug that reverses cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease models by targeting epigenetic mechanisms rather than only amyloid plaques. 🔗 Read more: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/researchers-...

Dr. Maria Suñol has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship 🎉 Her project BRAVA will investigate brain predictors of resilience to adversity in adolescence to better understand youth mental health. Read more: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/ubneuro-rese... Congrats, Maria! 👏

Prof. Daniel Müllensiefen (University of Hamburg) will discuss how musicality can be defined and measured using cognitive psychometrics. 📅 March 9 🕛 12:00 CET 📍 Faculty of Psychology, UB (Sala Miquel Siguan) Hosted by Josep Marco, Ernest Mas-Herrero & Marc Via.

The #UBneuro PhD Welcome Day 2026 was a great success! 🎓✨ New doctoral researchers connected with the community, explored responsible research, and visited the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit. A strong start for the next generation of neuroscientists! 🧠

🎨🧠 Voting for #NeuroArt2026 is now OPEN! Schools across Catalonia have transformed neuroscience into powerful artistic creations, and now it’s your turn to choose your favourite. 🗳️ Vote HERE: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/voting Final gala: March 10, 2026 at CCCB.

VISI-ON-BRAIN, led by Prof. Josep M. Canals, secures €4.5M under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / Horizon Europe. Read more: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/visi-on-brai...

🚀 Creatio UB coordinates #IMPACT, an €8.3M EU project transforming #CAR-T manufacturing. IMPACT advances the full #CAR-T manufacturing chain: #LV scale-up, real-time #QC, AI-based #DigitalTwin, and #OrganOnChip models for predictive efficacy and safety. @ubneuro.bsky.social @idibaps.bsky.social

At 4YFN (Mobile World Congress), three UBneuro spin-offs will showcase their technology: 🧠 OrganAID 💊 Flavii Therapeutics 🤖 Fedder AI — selected for the BKA Pitch Corner From neuroscience research to real-world impact. More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Prof. Daniel Tornero visited the Liceu Politècnic to explain how stem cells can help repair and model the human brain. At UBneuro, outreach, education and equality are not side activities, they are part of our core mission.

Our researchers continue bringing neuroscience to schools 💜 For #Científiques, Prof. Ruth de Diego-Balaguer visited IE Greda (Olot) to talk about: 🧠 What tools does our brain use to learn a language? Inspiring future scientists, one classroom at a time.

We’re joining #BCNHealthInnovationWeek! Open House at the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit. Discover how our translational neuroscience infrastructure can support your innovation. 📅 Feb 17 | 11:30–13:00 📍 Mundet Campus, Barcelona 🔗 Register here: bcnhealthinnovationweek.biocat.cat @biocat.cat @ub.edu

New UBneuro study out in iScience highlights that early-life cognitive stimulation may help preserve brain connectivity and memory in Alzheimer’s disease. 🔗https://www.neurociencies.ub.edu/early-life-cognitive-stimulation-preserves-brain-function-in-alzheimers-disease-with-sex-specific-effects/

New research from UBneuro sheds light on the brain mechanisms underlying juvenile fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition affecting children and adolescents. 🔗Read more: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/multisensory... @ub.edu @medicinacs-ub.bsky.social

Why doesn’t music feel rewarding for everyone? 🎵🧠 UBneuro researchers review the brain mechanisms behind specific musical anhedonia, showing it stems from reduced connectivity between auditory and reward circuits. Read more: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/understandin...

🎮📊 A serious game improves mathematical performance in children with dyscalculia. Researchers from UBneuro validate NeurekaNUM, the first evidence-based digital intervention in Spanish and Catalan. 🔗 Full article: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/a-digital-se...

🧠 PhD position in Neuroscience Join a funded project on nociception & chronic pain, focusing on CPT1C and AMPAR regulation. More info: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/wp-content/u...

UBneuro spin-off OrganAID has been recognized as a winner of ChemoStart IX Edition 🏆 A major step forward for precision medicine through organoids and AI. 🔗 Read more: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/ubneuro-spin...

🧠 New study by Jordi Abante applies multimodal machine learning to uncover context-dependent genetic modifiers of Huntington’s disease. The work reveals mechanisms influencing disease onset beyond CAG length. 🔗 Read more: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/multimodal-m...

🧠🔬 Prof. Daniel del Toro visited Liceu Politécnic to share insights on brain development, neurodegenerative diseases, and current neuroscience research, bringing active biomedical science into the classroom. #UBneuroOUTREACH

🧠 New research identifies early biological signals of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). 👉 Read the full news here: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/identifying-...

The Beatriu de Pinós 2025 postdoctoral call is now open. At UBneuro, candidates can join internationally recognised neuroscience research groups and receive mentoring support during the application process. 📅 Deadline: 4 Feb 2026 🔗 lnkd.in/eKSK7a_F

Prof. Karim Lekadir joins the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBneuro), bringing his expertise in trustworthy #AI for mental health. Welcome to UBneuro! 🎉 🔗Full news: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/karim-lekadi...

🎓 Three UBneuro researchers, Mercè Masana, Daniel del Toro & Marina López-Solà, have been awarded the 2025 Academy of Excellence grants. A strong recognition of UBneuro’s contribution to research excellence at @ub.edu. 🔗 Read more: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/three-ubneur...

✨ New research from UBneuro uncovers a promising pathway to treat Huntington’s disease 💡 This opens new possibilities to modulate brain function non-invasively Read more on our website: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/a-light-base...

🧠 UBneuro researchers are developing a new epigenetics-based drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease. The project has received a €150,000 AGAUR Product grant and shows promising neuroprotective results. Read more 👉 www.neurociencies.ub.edu/ubneuro-rese...

UBneuro participated in the EIT Deep Tech Pledgers’ Share & Connect in Barcelona! 🧠 Dr Ruben Perellón shared insights on advancing deep tech training in neuroscience. Proud to contribute to this growing European community! 📰 www.neurociencies.ub.edu/ubneuro-shar...

The Juan de la Cierva 2025 call is OPEN🚀 3-year postdoc contracts + allowance for early-career researchers. Apply with UBneuro and join a leading neuroscience community with a dedicated mentorship programme for applicants🧠 📅 Deadline: 10 Dec 📧Info & interest: [email protected]

📣 On 11 Dec, Palau Macaya hosts the event How to Address Emotional Distress and Suicide in Young People. UBneuro member Dr. Mari Aguilera will moderate the roundtable on suicide prevention in schools. Free registration → redcap.link/JORNADA

🚨 We’re hiring 🔬 PhD Candidate – Huntington’s Disease research 🧪 Research Technician – GlioLighT Project Fully funded positions | More info in our Job Offers website: www.neurociencies.ub.edu/job-offers/?... #Neuroscience #ResearchJobs #PhDPosition

Great session with Dr. Cristina Pulido, Research Manager Coordinator at UBneuro, who shared tips on PhD fellowships & UBneuro’s mentoring program with students of the Master in Research in Behaviour and Cognition. #Neuroscience #PhD #UBneuro #Research

🎧 New SciPod episode on the GlioLighT Consortium, with UBneuro researchers contributing to this EU-driven effort to advance new therapies for brain tumours. Explore the science, the challenges, and the future of these innovative approaches 👇 www.scipod.global/lighting-the...

UBneuro is proud to sponsor the workshop “NMDAR Hypofunction at the Crossroads of Psychosis and Cognition.” Experts will explore how NMDAR dysfunction links schizophrenia and anti-NMDAR encephalitis, from molecular mechanisms to working memory deficits.

Great training at our Cognitive Neuroscience Unit! Thanks to Gonzalo García-Castro and Chiara Santolín (Sant Joan de Déu) for sharing their expertise in fNIRS with newborns and infants. This will help boost our early brain research.

🎉Our last paper, BDNF Overexpression Enhances Neuronal Activity and Axonal Growth in Human iPSC-Derived Neural Cultures, has been featured on the @ub.edu website! The article highlights our recent work on stem cell-based therapies for brain damage. @ubneuro.bsky.social 🔬🧠🧫 web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

#RecercaUB | 🧠 Una nova estratègia basada en la teràpia amb cèl·lules mare podria potenciar la regeneració neuronal i la neuroplasticitat quan el cervell es danya ➡️ Lideren la recerca Daniel Tornero i Alba Ortega, de @medicinacs-ub.bsky.social i @ubneuro.bsky.social.

🧬 UBneuro researchers Daniel Tornero & Alba Ortega Gascó describe a new stem cell–based strategy that boosts neuronal regeneration and plasticity using BDNF. doi.org/10.3390/ijms... 🔗 Read more: neurociencies.ub.edu/ubneuro-rese... #Neuroscience #StemCells #BDNF #Neuroplasticity #UBneuro

Hiring! Join Dr. @claudiapenaloza.bsky.social ' s lab (UB) as a Research Assistant in a project on language processing and recovery in bilinguals with aphasia. 📅 Nov 1–Dec 31, 2025 | ⏰ 20h/week | 💶 €21.7K/year | 📍 UB, Barcelona | Deadline: Oct 16 seu.ub.edu/ofertaPublic...

We are very happy to share with you this review pubished in @jneurochem.bsky.social @WileyGlobal.bsky.social . Very proud of all the students in the lab who contributed to craft this manuscript! EVs, mTOR and neuroinflammation. @ub.edu @ubneuro.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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🔙🎶🧠Recap: The International Musicality Genomics Consortium Meeting in Barcelona www.neurociencies.ub.edu/recap-the-in...

🌿 Next week marks the 4th edition of the Health Research Meeting, organized by @caixaresearch.bsky.social We’re proud that Prof. Josep M. Canals will join this year’s event! #HealthResearch #CaixaResearch #UBneuro #Neuroscience #ResearchExcellence

Buscamos participantes para nuestro estudio IDENTITY-ABI. El estudio ofrece una intervención psicológica gratuita para acompañar los cambios en la #identidad en personas que ha sufrido #dañocerebral. Ayúdanos a difundir el estudio. Consulta este folleto para más información!