The Brain
Over the years the CCCB has been interested in research on the brain from many perspectives and has organized multiple talks, interviews and articles that are included in this list. You may find topics as diverse as neural diseases, autoimmune diseases of the brain, neuroethics, neurotechnology, empathy, individual autonomy or collective consciousness among others.
Ruth de Diego: “Previously we were trying to discover which part of the brain carried out such and such a function, but now we think about networks”
Centre Documentació i Debat
The ICREA-CCCB debates on “The Brain” end on Tuesday 1 April with the lecture titled “Lessons from Brain Lesions”, which is to be given by the University of Barcelona researcher Ruth de Diego. We have asked her to explain in advance why study of behaviour patterns and ...
Mavi Sánchez-Vives: “In 20 seconds we can produce the illusion of ownership of a third arm”
Centre Documentació i Debat
On Tuesday 25 March Mavi Sánchez-Vives, ICREA research professor at the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) will give a lecture titled “Brain and Virtual Reality“, the third in the ICREA-CCCB series of debates on “The Brain”. We have interviewed ...
Albert Costa: «In bilingual people brain deterioration is slower»
Albert Forns
The third series of ICREA-CCCB debates, «The Brain», continues on Tuesday 18th March with the lecture “The Bilingual Brain” by the ICREA research professor Albert Costa, one of the world’s leading scientists working in neurolinguistics. We have spoken with him ...
Great challenges of biomedicine.Autoimmunity, brain and mind
Lecture by Josep Dalmau
A few years ago it was discovered that the immune system could alter the function of neuronal receptors. This brings about serious changes in conduct and memory and also causes psychosis and personality regression.
Miguel Chillón
Brain ageing and its therapies
Ageing, a complex biological process entailing progressive functional decline of the organism, is particularly important when it affects the brain. At advanced ages some people have memory lapses or suffer from dementia, while others maintain their cognitive capacities. Why? What kinds of interventions ...
Miquel Vila
Pathologies of Ageing: Parkinson's disease
Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. There is no cure for Parkinson’s disease as yet but can it be avoided by slowing down ageing? Lecture by Miquel Vila, ICREA research professor at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute ...
Elena Galea
Pathologies of Ageing: Alzheimer's disease
Will science be able to cure Alzheimer’s, the most frequent neurodegenerative disease? In this lecture, Elena Galea, ICREA research professor at the Institut de Neurociències at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (INc), talks about the molecular causes of Alzheimer’s will be discussed, together with the research programmes and clinical trials being carried out on a worldwide scale, with particular attention to work in Barcelona on projects aiming to find a cure for the disease.
To the Origins of the Human Mind. Who decides? Neuroscience and the question of freedom
Lecture by Michael S. Gazzaniga
To the Origins of the Human Mind. Neurological bases of imitation and empathy
Lecture by Francisco Rubia
Love, Sex and Brain
Lecture by Catherine Malabou
Lecture of the IV Philosophy conference 'Subversive love'
You Want It, You Just Don’t Know It Yet
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
Neuromarketing studies the way the brain works in consumer purchasing decisions, particularly the part of the brain that we cannot express rationally.
