SPIN cohort

The Sant Pau Memory Unit awarded at the XXII Annual Meeting of the Catalan Society of Neurology

14/10/202030/05/2018 by Sant Pau Memory Unit

For the second consecutive year, Dr. Ignacio Illán Gala has received the Lluís Barraquer Bordas Prize in recognition for the best oral communication presented at the XXII Annual Meeting of the Catalan Society of Neurology held in Barcelona on May 22 and 23, 2018. In this communication, entitled “CSF levels of sAPPß and YKL-40 are related to … Read more

Eduard Vilaplana defends his Doctoral Thesis

31/10/2017 by Sant Pau Memory Unit

Doctoral Thesis - Eduard Vilaplana - Sant Pau Memory Unit - Alzheimer Research - Barcelona

Eduard Vilaplana has defended today his Doctoral Thesis entitled: “A biphasic model for cortical structural changes in preclinial AD: a multimodal MRI, CSF and PET study”.

Microstructural changes in the Alzheimer’s disease continuum

02/11/201730/10/2017 by Sant Pau Memory Unit

Microstructural biphasic model - Sant Pau Memory Unit - Alzheimer Research - Barcelona

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.

08/09/202016/05/2017 by Nahuai

Volunteer - Sant Pau Memory Unit - Alzheimer Research - Barcelona

Sant Pau Initiative on Neurodegeneration 1. What is the SPIN cohort? The main objective of the SPIN cohort (Sant Pau Initiative on Neurodegeneration) is to widen our knowledge of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body dementia and frontotemporal lobe degeneration, through the study of biochemical and neuroimaging markers (also known as biomarkers). This … Read more