The elderly, people with osteoporosis, smokers, diabetics or people who have suffered from cancer sometimes cannot choose to get a dental implant since their bones have lost the ability to integrate adequately the new prosthesis that replaces the root. The coating of these implants, using a new biodegradable material developed by researchers from the Universitat [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Medicine’
January 27th, 2013
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The widespread belief that dopamine regulates pleasure may pass into history with the latest scientific advances about the function of this neurotransmitter, which demonstrate that, in fact, it regulates motivation, leading individuals to get going and persevere in order to achieve something, either positive or negative. The journal of neuroscience ‘Neuron’ publishes an article written [...]
The importance of an early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease
November 28th, 2012
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Dolores Martínez Lozano, neurologist from the Dementia Unit of the Neurology Service at the Hospital La Magdalena, offered a lecture about Dementias and Alzheimer’s disease within the framework of the Brain Week organized by the Degree in Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Universitat Jaume I. During her lecture, Dr. Martínez Lozano [...]
2012, Year of Neuroscience at the UJI
November 21st, 2012
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The Universitat Jaume I joins to the celebration of 2012 as the Year of Neuroscience in Spain. This video provides a tour around the various campus laboratories from different perspectives, which address science from different perspectives, a science that tells us about the foundation of our feelings, thoughts and emotions, our social behaviour, our creativity [...]
New biologic therapies for the multiple sclerosis treatment
November 16th, 2012
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Antonio Belenguer, neurologist at the Hospital General in Castelló, talked about the multiple sclerosis (MS) treatments in his lecture during the summer course “Multiple sclerosis: how we should deal and act with it from an interdisciplinary perspective” at the Universitat Jaume I. Belenguer highlighted the importance of the early treatment in the MS since it [...]
Optimi allows predictions of risk of depression with 85% reliability
September 10th, 2012
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The computing tool, developed by researchers and investigators at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, the Universidad Politécnica of Valencia and the Universidad de Valencia, along with professionals from the company everis, is able to predict if a person with a high-stress level is at risk of becoming depressed, based on the study along with [...]
Development of doctorate and master’s degree in Nursery in Spain
October 18th, 2011
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This work gathers more than two decades of the effort made by nursing groups in Spain to adapt nursery training to the highest standards of international quality. A long path of hard work, full of difficulties, in which the authors have played a prominent role; an example of will and self-improvement, with an optimistic ending [...]
Very premature babies: an analysis from experience
September 22nd, 2011
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This book deals with a largely unknown topic: very premature babies, an exciting universe of extreme situations and feelings, where you can often attend a desperate struggle for survival in an environment of sophisticated technological tools, full of disturbing alarms, but likewise surrounded by an environment of emotional anguish, hope and despair, joy and fear that mainly affect fathers and mothers, and even the professionals who take care of them. Ramón Aguilera is chief of the Neonatal Unit in the General Hospital in Castelló and founding [...]
