Bilingual Factors Associated with Cognitive Reserve and Linguistic Resilience in Hispanics with Primary Progressive Aphasia
Bilingual Factors Associated with Cognitive Reserve and Linguistic Resilience in Hispanics with Primary Progressive Aphasia Recent studies demonstrate that being bilingual can delay the onset of dementia by an average of 4-5 years. Stephanie Grasso (University of...
Enrichment of plasma-derived extracellular vesicles from astrocytes
Enrichment of plasma-derived extracellular vesicles from astrocytes Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanoparticles that are secreted by all cells in the body. EVs carries multiple cellular components, such as genetic material, proteins and lipid metabolites that often...
Microstructural changes in the Alzheimer’s disease continuum
A new publication led by the Sant Pau Memory Unit shows that microstructural changes of the cerebral cortex during the Alzheimer’s disease progression follow a biphasic model. The collaboration between several Spanish centers (Hospital Universitario Marqués de...
Genetic burden in frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Patients manifesting both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia and not carrying the C9orf72 expansion mutation harbour a substantial genetic burden. The Molecular Genetics group from the Sant Pau Memory Unit has published a study where, through...
Dr. María Carmona defends her doctoral thesis
Dr. María Carmona-Iragui has defended today her Doctoral Thesis entitled: “Sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy: beyond lobar intracerebral hemorrhage. Multimodal biomarker studies of atypical presentations”. This doctoral thesis, co-directed by Dr. Rafael...