Understanding communication in brain networks

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brain

The brain is a massively interconnected system and the mechanisms supporting information routing are not yet well known. In the lab we are focused on understanding communication in brain networks.

electrophysiology

We use and develop state-of-the-art MRI tools to investigate the transformations that occur from the microscopic to the macroscopic organizational levels when a new memory is formed or a pathological process develops.

synaptic

We investigate how modifications in synaptic activity, as those occurring during everyday life experience or those related to the consumption of drugs of abuse, shape the functional structure of the brain.

LAST PUBLICATIONS

Mapping microglia and astrocyte activation in vivo using diffusion MRI

2022

Garcia-Hernandez R, Cerdán Cerdá A, Trouve Carpena A, Drakesmith M, Koller K, Jones DK, Canals S, De Santis S

Sci Adv. 2022 May 27;8(21):eabq2923. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abq2923.

Different theta frameworks coexist in the rat hippocampus and are coordinated during memory-guided and novelty tasks

2020

Lopez-Madrona VJ, Pérez-Montoyo E, Alvarez-Salvado E, Moratal D, Herreras O, Pereda E, Mirasso CR, Canals S.

Elife. 2020; 9:e57313. doi:10.7554/eLife.57313

Microstructural White Matter Alterations in Men With Alcohol Use Disorder and Rats With Excessive Alcohol Consumption During Early Abstinence

2019

De Santis S, Bach P, Pérez-Cervera L, Cosa-Liñan A, Weil G, Vollstädt-Klein S, Hermann D, Kiefer F, Kirsch P, Ciccocioppo R, Sommer WH, Canals S

JAMA Psychiatry. 2019 Jul 1;76(7):749-758. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0318.

Finding_influential_nodes

Finding influential nodes for integration in brain networks using optimal percolation theory

2018

Gino Del Ferraro, Andrea Moreno, Byungjoon Min, Flaviano Morone, Úrsula Pérez-Ramírez, Laura Pérez-Cervera, Lucas C. Parra, Andrei Holodny, Canals S & Hernán A. Makse

 2018 Jun 11;9(1):2274. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04718-3

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