18/01/2023 - General information
The Integrated Pharmacology and Systems Neurosciences Research Group of the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute has just published a study in Neurobiology of Disease, in which it highlights the role of the CDK5 protein as a possible marker of early psychosis. Furthermore, this protein is modulated by cannabis use. This paves the way for possible future treatments based on CDK5 expression.
Més informació "Possible biomarker for early psychosis identified"
20/12/2022 - General information
The Board of Trustees of the Spanish Psychiatry and Mental Health Foundation has chosen Dr. Víctor Pérez, head of the Psychiatry Department of the Hospital del Mar and coordinator of the Mental Health Research Group of the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, as the new president of the organization. This appointment comes after Dr. Perez left his position as president of the executive committee of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health. As the highest representative of the foundation, Dr. Pérez will be responsible for representing the entity, chairing the meetings of its board of trustees and executing the agreements reached. The aim of its activity is to contribute to the knowledge, development and improvement of psychiatry and mental health and the disciplines that are linked to it.
Més informació "Dr. Víctor Pérez will chair the Spanish Foundation of Psychiatry and Mental Health."
02/11/2022 - General information
The researcher of the Neuroscience Research Program at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute talks in this book with Montserrat Pedreira, PhD in Education and Early Childhood Education teacher, about how we communicate, what makes us curious and how we explore the world. Beatriz Fagundo, PhD in Neuroscience and researcher at the Neuroscience Research Program at IMIM-Hospital del Mar, is one of the authors of Diàlegs entre educació i neurociència, a book that explores the common ground between Neuroscience and Education through a dialogue between the researcher and Montserrat Pedreira, PhD in Education and Early Childhood and Primary Education teacher. The book is published by Eumo Editorial.
Més informació "Diàlegs entre educació i neurociència, the new book of Beatriz Fagundo"
24/10/2022 - General information
The principal investigator of the Research Group on Cell-type mechanisms in normal and pathological behavior at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute received this award at the IACM congress held in Switzerland. Every two years, the International Association for Cannabinoid Medicines (IACM) awards different categories of prizes to researchers working in the field of cannabinoids. This year, the selection committee of this international association has decided to award the Young Investigator Award for research in the field of cannabinoids to Dr. Arnau Busquets, principal investigator of the Research Group on Cell-type mechanisms in normal and pathological behavior at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM).
Més informació "IACM Young Investigator Award for Dr. Arnau Busquets"
26/07/2022 - General information
This is the question that Dr. Daniel Guinart, Dr. Víctor Pérez and Dr. Benedikt Amann, researchers from the Neurosciences Research Programme at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, attempt to answer in a letter recently published in The Lancet. The role peer reviewers of scientific articles play and the debate on whether their work should be remunerated are the focus of a letter by Dr. Daniel Guinart, Dr. Víctor Pérez and Dr. Benedikt Amann, researchers from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute's Neurosciences Research Programme (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) that has been published in The Lancet. It is a voluntary task, based on a "code of honour", as the authors put it, but which in recent times has become an exploitative system.
Més informació "Should reviewers of scientific journal articles be paid a wage?"
14/07/2022 - General information
After the success of "La mare de la ciència", the PRBB's science outreach podcast in Catalan, June saw the launch of "Absolutos y Relativos", the second science outreach podcast from the PRBB, which this time will be in Spanish. On 14 July, Patricia Robledo, a researcher from the Integrated Pharmacology and Systems Neuroscience research group at the IMIM, explains the neuroscience and drug studies she is carrying out, and talks about her research career, which is closely linked to psychology.
13/05/2022 - General information
A platform developed by the Centre Nacional d'Anàlisi Genòmica (CNAG-CRG) allows doctors and researchers from Catalan hospitals to share data and otherwise scattered expertise and diagnose patients with neurologic rare diseases. During the pilot project, a diagnosis was provided to 67 out of 323 patients (20.7% of cases), just by reanalysing previously available data. The results constitute an important milestone for ending the 'diagnostic odyssey' faced by patients in Catalonia. The collaborative approach also resulted in the identification of six new genes linked to specific diseases, which will make it easier to diagnose certain diseases in the future. The results, published today in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, were possible thanks to the Undiagnosed Rare Disease Program of Catalonia (URD-Cat), funded by the Departament de Salut de la Generalitat de Catalunya. The URD-Cat project was coordinated by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) and involved more than 140 professionals from 15 different research centres and hospitals.
Més informació "Catalan collaboration helps end ‘diagnostic odyssey’ for rare disease patients"
19/04/2022 - General information
The VALAWAI project, led by the CSIC with the participation of the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute and the Hospital del Mar, has received nearly four million euros from the European Innovation Council under the Pathfinder Challenges. A team from the Neuroimaging of Mental Disorders Research Group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, led by Dr. Òscar Vilarroya, along with the Innovation Directorate of the Hospital del Mar, headed by Dr. Jordi Martínez, is part of the VALAWAI project (Value-Aware Artificial Intelligence). The project has recently been granted European funding of nearly four million euros. Its objective is to develop a set of tools for creating artificial intelligence systems that incorporate mechanisms sensitive to human values. In other words, these systems should be capable of deciding whether certain actions are morally acceptable and be aware of their users' value systems.
14/02/2022 - General information
In addition, 71% of them claim to have a poor quality of life due to epileptic seizures, according to a study carried out by Hospital del Mar's Epilepsy Unit. Women suffer higher levels of depression and anxiety, as well as a poorer quality of life, compared to men. The results obtained raise the issue of how to address these factors as triggers of epileptic seizures. This is the largest study to date analysing psychiatric comorbidities in patients with this type of pathology. The work has been published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology. People diagnosed with treatment-resistant epilepsy have high levels of depression and anxiety, as well as a poor quality of life, according to a study published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology by Hospital del Mar's Epilepsy Unit . In fact, half of these patients suffer from depression and anxiety and more than 70% claim to have a poor quality of life. This fact suggests that a global approach to these patients should be evaluated, taking into account the psychiatric aspects of their pathology to try to control their epileptic seizures.
28/01/2022 - General information
The renowned chef gave an online session in which she explained that it is possible to eat well and healthily and still enjoy food. The talk, organised by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute's Neurosciences programme, is part of the cognitive and social stimulation sessions for volunteers in the PENSA project on the prevention of cognitive impairment. Can you eat healthily and still get excited about what you eat? The answer is yes. This was explained by Ada Parellada, the chef and director of Restaurant Semproniana and 2016 Creu de Sant Jordi winner, who this morning visited the facilities at the Hospital de Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) as a guest of the Institute's Neuroscience Programme. Her visit was part of the PENSA project, promoted by the programme, in collaboration with the Barcelonaβeta Brain Research Centre from the Pasqual Maragall Foundation.
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