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
    Javier Peña Lasa
    Leire Zubiaurre Elorza
    Lexuri Fernández de Gamarra
    Naroa Ibarretxe-Bilbao
    Olaia Lucas
    Oihana Zabala
    María Del Mar Mendibe Bilbao