NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF SEVERE MEDICAL CONDITIONS

NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF SEVERE MEDICAL CONDITIONS

  • Subject areas

    Faculty of Health Sciences

  • Team

    Gobierno Vasco B

    Brief description of research aims

    - Identify potential cognitive and clinical endophenotypes that could guide the diagnosis and prognosis of diseases and the various diagnostic subgroups.
    - Contribute to the longitudinal prognosis and improvement of the functional status and quality of life of patients and their families.
    - Develop effective treatment programmes and experimental checks for signs of effectiveness.
    - Adapt and standardise diagnostic and assessment instruments.
    - Prevent brain diseases and cognitive decline

    Research area

    - Diagnosis and treatment of severe psychiatric diseases
    - Diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases
    - Development of diagnostic assessment tools in neuropsychology
    - Development of treatments for cognitive impairment and brain diseases
    - Search for brain plasticity and functional improvement in healthy and diagnosed people
    - Prevention of pathological ageing
    * Team Recognised by the Basque Government

    Team

    Principal Investigator
    Natalia Ojeda

    Research Team
    Acebo García
    Agurne Sampedro
    Ainara Gómez
    Genoveva Montoya
    Itsasne Sánchez
    Javier Peña Lasa
    Leire Zubiaurre Elorza
    Lexuri Fernández de Gamarra
    Maria del Mar Mendibe
    María Díez
    Miguel Gutiérrez
    Naroa Ibarretxe-Bilbao
    Oihane Rilo
    Oihane Sáez
    Olaia Lucas
    Pedro Manuel Sánchez
    Yolanda Balboa