Is obesity a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease?
Obesity and Alzheimer It has been established that middle-age obesity is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, but the results from studies in older people are contradictory. Our recent study would explain the discrepancies on this topic. This work is the...
The Instituto de Salud Carlos III awards subvention grants to four projects of the Sant Pau Memory Unit
The Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Institute of Health Carlos III) has awarded subvention grants to four research projects submitted by the Sant Pau Memory Unit in the 2018 call for Health Research and Development Strategy in the modality of Proyectos de Investigación...
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María Carmona-Iragui receives the Doctoral Extraordinary Award
Dr. María Carmona-Iragui has recently received the Doctoral Thesis Extraordinary Award in Neuroscience for her work entitled: “Sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy: beyond lobar intracerebral hemorrhage. Multimodal biomarker studies of atypical presentations”. Her...
Our recent study in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania characterizes two markers of frontotemporal degeneration
The Sant Pau Memory Unit has published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry the results of a collaborative study with researchers from University of Pennsylvania (Penn FTD Center) that characterize two markers of frontotemporal degeneration....
Markers for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal degeneration
The Department of Neurology of Hospital de Sant Pau has published in Neurology the article “CSF sAPPβ, YKL-40, and NfL along the ALS-FTD spectrum”. This study has been carried out by the Sant Pau Memory Unit and the Neuromuscular Disorders Unit of the Department of...
Martí Colom-Cadena receives the Doctoral Thesis Extraordinary Award
Dr. Martí Colom-Cadena has received the Extraordinary Award for his doctoral thesis in Biomedicine entitled “Neuropathology of Lewy body diseases: confluence of multiple pathologies and role of synaptic phospho-alpha-synuclein“, defended at the University...
Great participation in the Masterclass of Zumba 2018 against Alzheimer!
About 400 people have enjoyed this morning an energetic Masterclass of Zumba by Fundación DiR in the Modernist Campus of the Hospital de Sant Pau. Here are some photos and videos: Thank you for your...
A blood biomarker can detect Alzheimer’s disease in adults with Down syndrome
The Alzheimer – Down Unit, that comprises researchers from the Sant Pau Memory Unit of the Neurology Service at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and the Fundació Catalana Síndrome de Down, has published the results of a study of biomarkers in blood and...