One of the important limitations when applying knowledge about cognitive mechanisms in different social and cultural fields is that the results obtained in the laboratory are not necessarily representative of what happens in real settings. In this project we study the effects of a novelty in the middle of a class, on the evocation of … Continued
Post-traumatic stress is a disorder that can affect individuals who have had a traumatic experience. Memories of that experience become pathological and interfere with people’s lives causing problems related to depression and anxiety. We have known for a couple of decades that when a memory evokes, it can become sensitive to interference and decrease its … Continued
Aging is frequently accompanied by a decrease in memory. However, there are certain aspects of memory that may be more affected than others. For example, the ability to discriminate one event from another in memory when these experiences have been similar. We generate a memory test capable of differentiating which aspects of the storage of … Continued
Regular physical exercise is known to have beneficial effects on brain health and cognition, particularly memory. However, the effects of a short period of physical exercise on the storage of information about near-time experiences are not known. In this project we develop a spatial memory task in a virtual room to evaluate the effect of … Continued
Exposure to stressful situations during the first years of life has been shown to have profound consequences on the growth and development of an individual throughout life. Early side effects increase the risk of post-traumatic stress, depression, and addiction to drugs of abuse, such as alcohol. We will study the cognitive alterations induced in the … Continued
The 12th International Symposium on Neurosciences organized by the INECO Foundation will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On this occasion, the topic will be “Brain and Society: The role of Neurosciences in designing better public policies”. The application of the scientific knowledge to understand the real behavior of people is one of the great … Continued
The objective of this project is to determine the degree of cardiac re-innervation with multiple measures of heart-brain and heart-peripheral system integration over time in a transplant population ranging from year 1 to year 16 post-transplantation. Likewise, this study will address the cardiac and cerebral bases of interoception in this group of patients. The experimental … Continued
Recent studies suggest that cognition is a contextual process that does not function universally or statically. Our laboratory studies the effects of contextual cues on brain correlates of various cognitive processes in healthy participants and in patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and ADHD.