Authors: Inês Sousa Pereira & Laura Pintado According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health refers to: “the foundation...

Author: Deepshika Arasu The academic world of Science today is vastly different from what one might have found in the 17th Century where...

Author: Brina Stančič In my previous blog post, I have written about the importance of communication in the brain and the attempts of the...

Author: Brina Stančič Communication. Exchange of information, ideas, opinions, or emotions. A process by which human beings perceive...

Author: Laura Argelich Did you know that more than 10 million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson’s disease? To give you a sense of...

Author: Patricia Garcia Jareño Have you ever thought about donating your brain to science? Do you know where it goes after donation? Your...

Author: Francisco J Molina-Ruiz We have all dealt with a break-up at one point or another in our lives. Indeed, heartbreak is an...

Author: Sonali Salvi Stem cells or progenitor cells are specialised cells that have the ability to either self-renew or differentiate...

Author: Chi-Chieh Lee If life is a road trip, you are the driver to explore your own path and make a life story. On the road you are not...

Author: Lam Lam In ASCTN, we are all working on using cellular or animal models for studying disease mechanisms of neurodegenerative...

Author: Inês Sousa Pereira I am not the first one on this blog to talk to you about neurodegenerative diseases. In fact, our entire...

Author: Marina Rodríguez Rubio These are neurons! This is how we, scientists, can see the neurons in the lab. Beautiful right? That’s why...

Author: Laura Pintado Do you think people can't change? Surprise! That's not completely accurate, psychologically and biologically...

Author: Guochang Lyu You may have known, as a common neurodegenerative disorder, Parkinson's disease (PD) is mainly affecting the...

Author: Nina Stöberl Many of you have probably heard of neurons, the basic working unit of our nervous system and our brain. They...

Author: Clelia Introna How can we study the vitalest and most complex organ of our body, the brain? What if we want to investigate...