Neuroscience

We are a multidisciplinary neuroscience research group dedicated to understanding the molecular basis of neurodegeneration and translating this knowledge into advanced therapeutic strategies. Our research focuses primarily on rare neurodegenerative diseases, particularly spinocerebellar ataxias, where we investigate the role of RNA metabolism, stress granule dynamics, RNA-binding proteins, proteostasis, autophagy, neuroinflammation, and extracellular vesicle-mediated communication in disease pathogenesis.

1. Characterizing the heterogeneity of the cognitive profiles among adults with dyslexia, to understand the mechanisms that enable certain individuals to compensate for their deficits and succeed in their academic lives. while others do not.

2.Continuing to deepen our knowledge about the time course of visual word recognition, both in typical readers and in readers with dyslexia, exploring the electroencephalographic component N170 as a marker of the sensitivity of the reading system to the orthographic characteristics of words.

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