The Sant Pau Memory Unit of the Neurology Department at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona is a multidisciplinary team dedicated to the assistance and research in Alzheimer and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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Marta Querol defends her doctoral thesis
Marta Querol Vilaseca has presented her doctoral thesis entitled “New methods of digital neuropathology applied to neurodegenerative diseases“. The thesis has been directed and tutored by Dr. Alberto Lleó, and discusses new methodologies that are useful to...
Structural changes in the brain of patients with Alzheimer’s begin 20 years before the symptoms onset
Structural brain changes in Alzheimer’s disease Brain alterations in Alzheimer’s disease patients begin years before symptoms appear and a clinical diagnosis can be made. The neuroimaging team in our group has developed a technique that measures the...
Neurofilament and total tau in plasma for the diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s
The Sant Pau Memory Unit publishes a new study in collaboration with the University of California San Francisco. The study examines the role of neurofilament light chain (NfL) and total tau levels in plasma for the diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia and...
